Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no question of this amounting to a statutory contempt as proceedings were not ‘ active . ’ |
| 2 | The victory of the Conservatives in the British general elections of 1979 led to a radical questioning of the role of the public enterprise sector . |
| 3 | How could a violently anti-system movement conceived for an extraordinary emergency akin to that of 1940 adapt to a gradualist parliamentary strategy ? |
| 4 | When the powder is mixed with cold water it first of all dissolves to a creamy white paste and then slowly sets to a hard solid . |
| 5 | The most sensitive eyes of all belong to a deep-sea crustacean called Gigantocypris , which manages an incredible f-0.25 . |
| 6 | 30 per cent of those invited to an advisory interview after 12 months to start on a Jobplan workshop |
| 7 | The structure of Sinhalese caste was unusual in that a majority of Sinhalese belonged to a single caste , the Goyigama , which was also traditionally the highest caste . |
| 8 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 9 | Chests like that belonged to a different age , a dangerous age of swashbucklers , and buccaneers who gloried in their toughness , stripped themselves to the elements , and laughed , bare-chested , into the teeth of icy sea-winds . |
| 10 | This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " . |
| 11 | The Faculty of Arts offers the following degrees : MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) , in both of which a student takes a spread of subjects with some studied to an advanced level ; and the MA(Honours) , in which a student concentrates on one or two subjects in depth for most of the period of study . |
| 12 | A strong association was found between low self-esteem and current adverse circumstances with both relating to an increased risk of developing clinical depression in the following year . |
| 13 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 14 | London 's evening paper was similar in lix score to a Swedish evening paper , but there were major differences in word and sentence scores . |
| 15 | The size of 's commitment to animal feed has increased very considerably with ’ turnover forecast to rise to over £500 million in 1993 compared to a previous level of £200 million per annum . |
| 16 | A $1500m ‘ global initiative for the security and sustainable use of plant genetic resources ’ is needed in 1993–2000 according to a new report from the Keystone Centre . |
| 17 | The expiry of the Licensing Act in 1695 led to a massive output of printed propaganda , in the form of pamphlets , broadsides and newspapers , and the press proved to be highly partisan in nature . |
| 18 | The ‘ battered child syndrome ’ first discovered by Henry Kempe in 1962 referred to a clinical condition in young children , invariably under three , who had received serious physical abuse , usually from a parent , and was identified by the association of subdural haematoma ( a pooling of blood around the skull ) together with evidence of broken or healing long bones ( Kempe et al . , |
| 19 | Companies and other organisations participating in Compact contribute to a collective guarantee of jobs with training . |
| 20 | In 1895 he became gas engineer and in 1900 transferred to a similar post on the Midland Railway at Derby , where he became assistant works manager in 1905 , works manager in 1907 , and chief mechanical engineer in 1909 . |
| 21 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Britain 's current-account deficit of £20 billion ( $31 billion , or 3.6% of GDP ) in 1989 fell to an annual rate of only £4.1 billion in the six months to February , and the odd monthly surplus may soon appear . |
| 23 | New apparatus made new experiments possible ; for example , the new diffraction gratings prepared by H. A. Rowland at Johns Hopkins University from 1882 led to a great improvement and quantification of spectroscopy , while the microscope led to the cell theory . |
| 24 | These matters spilled over into the British Psychological Society and eventually in 1951–52 led to a major row on the benefits of psychoanalysis , which meant that the relationship between scientific developments and educational practice became further confused . |
| 25 | Nevertheless the Belgian scholar van der Vyver pointed out that a panegyric addressed by Ennodius of Pavia to Theodoric the Great in 508 refers to a recent influx of Alamans into Ostrogothic territory , and he suggested that this should be linked to Clovis 's victory , which he placed in 506 . |
| 26 | In the United States , 1500 porn titles were released on video in 1988 compared to an annual total of around 100 in the 1970s . |
| 27 | After three years of rapid expansion , economic growth in 1990 came to a virtual standstill [ see also p. 38112 ] . |
| 28 | The statistics , based on the final season before the Premier League split , show an average turnstile increase of 17 per cent and reveal ticket prices rocketed four fold since 197879 compared to a 2.6 per cent rise in the general retail price index . |
| 29 | The Gulf crisis and economic recession prompted a fall in the number of individual working days lost through industrial action from 904,000 days in 1989 to 693,700 in 1990 — the lowest level of industrial action since 1946 according to a Labour Ministry report of late June 1991 . |
| 30 | To those committed to a relevant as well as a rigorous education , the GCSE is a disappointing anachronism which does n't fit with vocational or pre-vocational criteria exemplified through other contemporary school-based developments for 14–18-year-olds such as TVEI ( Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative ) and CPVE ( Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education ) . |