Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 2 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 3 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 4 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 5 | The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves . |
| 6 | The growth in the sum of will only lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods if the sum of grows too . |
| 7 | This should obviously lead to an improvement in the situation but regardless of the size of the corpus there will always be some transitions that are not found . |
| 8 | I does not necessarily lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods . |
| 9 | Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children . |
| 10 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 11 | Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale . |
| 12 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 13 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 14 | Most of which I know some of them have already come to an end like Julie 's E S |
| 15 | The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques . |
| 16 | Failure of this citizenly vigilance can all too easily lead to an erosion of our entitlements . |
| 17 | And if these explorations conclusively point to an amalgamation with the T & g or any other union , then so be it . |
| 18 | A booking contract will normally come to an end in any of three ways : |
| 19 | Lamb had finally yielded to an invitation from Coleridge to travel west , and wrote at the end of June to say that he hoped to arrive at Stowey the following weak . |
| 20 | The purge soon spread to an onslaught against oppositionists within the party itself . |
| 21 | The prophet Tawney , now writing for the Manchester Guardian and still committed to an extension of grammar-school opportunities could , on the twenty-first anniversary of Secondary Education for All , write : ‘ Now , at last , the reign of organised torpor masquerading as statesmanship shows signs of ending . ’ |
| 22 | Many American think-tanks , such as the Washington-based Institute for International Economics , still cling to an aura of academic detachment . |
| 23 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
| 24 | The observations which we shall make can be directly linked to an account of the overall possibilities of English grammatical structure ; by this we do not mean to speak of the paradigmatic relationships between different clauses , but of the syntagmatic relations which construct the clause itself . |
| 25 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |
| 26 | The 12-year civil war in El Salvador was formally brought to an end on Dec. 15 when , after a series of delays and setbacks , the planned demobilization of guerrilla forces and active army units was finalized . |
| 27 | Irrespective of the decisions of the World Bank classifiers , however , it is an undeniable fact that in the 1990s most hitherto self-proclaimed socialist or communist countries are rapidly coming to an understanding with transnational capitalism , and that the scope and volume of the transnational practices of such states with the states and institutions of the capitalist system have increased dramatically in the last decade . |
| 28 | It does n't always lead to an arrest by any means but it can help to solve the jigsaw and maybe come up with a welcome " good deed " . |
| 29 | Over the past five years , the run life of ESPs supplied by Reda for Forties Echo has gradually increased to an average of 250 days . |
| 30 | The removal of such barriers would increase market entry which would directly lead to an increase in competition , and thereby to reductions in X-inefficiency and monopoly pricing practices . |