Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 2 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 3 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 4 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 5 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 6 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 7 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 8 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 9 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 10 | She mentions that once , having just given birth to a child , she was ordered by Christ to get up and go to Norwich , though her journey appeared to be without purpose . |
| 11 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 12 | CP is therefore a quickly and easily arranged alternative to a bank loan . |
| 13 | The likelihood of a redrawing of the 817 project had surely been on the horizon since Louis married Judith ( especially so if , as seems likely , she had already given birth to a daughter , Gisèle , in 821 ) . |
| 14 | Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected . |
| 15 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 16 | And she had just made love to a stranger . |
| 17 | Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information . |
| 18 | But the growing body of evidence that the onset of massive winds occurs right up to the dividing line suggests that a phase transition is occurring from a hot , magnetically confined corona to a cool , open , massive wind outflow . |
| 19 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |
| 20 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |
| 21 | Attention should be drawn to Foresman 's comment that the US Geological Survey ( USGS ) ( at the EROS Data Centre ) have successfully linked ARC/INFO to a model of groundwater flow ( Foresman 1986 : 260 ) . |
| 22 | For example , and the General Secretary was giving examples yesterday so I 'm entitled to do one as well , for example , Islington Council , where a direct Labour organization that had successfully survived and grown through the worst of the Thatcher years and the worst of the Thatcher attack on public services has now fallen victim to a combination of a weak and corrupt Labour Council and an incompetent senior management . |
| 23 | the transfer of the polymer chain from a pure , perfectly ordered state to a state of disorder which has the necessary freedom to allow the chain to be placed randomly on a lattice , and |
| 24 | In the evenings in Hut 2 he had twice pulled Holly to a corner to tell him of his innocence . |
| 25 | Franco 's thinly veiled reference to a difference of opinion with his Italian and German collaborators was an understatement of the truth . |
| 26 | Patients participating in this study gave fully informed consent to a protocol approved by the Yale University School of Medicine Human Investigation Committee . |
| 27 | The CIOB recently played host to a group of senior executives in the field of facilities management at its first seminar on the subject . |