Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children with other kinds of referrals are more like the comparison school children at follow up — less of a problem both to society and to themselves . |
| 2 | He was too much of a politician ever to outrage religious feelings as Rufus did , but his smooth words concealed a purpose very little different from that of Rufus . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , not to say cry off , ’ said Bill , settling down cosily with a grievance , like a feminist about to discourse on rape . |
| 4 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 5 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 6 | Some stormed across in jubilation , others in a mood closer to melancholy . |
| 7 | Yet when Luzma , my sympathetic travel agent , took me in a taxi down to contrabando in Cuzco , it had not been to buy a camera . |
| 8 | A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date . |
| 9 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 10 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 11 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 12 | As memory returned she was hit by a depression close to despair , the earlier feeling of security completely vanished . |
| 13 | Ten stations receiving new boats in the past year had meant ten crews undergoing week-long familiarisation courses at Poole , followed by a passage back to station . |
| 14 | This was followed by a lurch back to civility and a fast-knotted signature , hard to unravel . |