Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group 3 comprised biopsies from patients previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease who admitted not adhering to a gluten free diet . |
| 2 | As with many later European voyagers , travel in this part of the world , far from broadening the mind , seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed , colour or class . |
| 3 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 4 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 5 | [ … ] Competition , to the equilibrium price theorist , turned out to refer to a state of affairs into which so many competing participants have already entered that no room remains for additional entry ( or other modification of existing market conditions ) . |
| 6 | I return to Mr Ritchie 's point that what happened here amounted to a collateral contract , that is an independent contract collateral to the main contract . |
| 7 | I refer to my memorandum dated 19 September 1990 which informed you that the Personnel Committee , at its meeting on 11 September 1990 , decided not to agree to a closure of Regional Council workplaces during the 1990/91 festive season . |
| 8 | He decided not to go to a chain chemist 's . |
| 9 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 10 | One of the most pathetic is that of a pet dog , which died still chained to a post . |
| 11 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 12 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 13 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 14 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 15 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 16 | The street system did not accord to a grid pattern . |
| 17 | Any liquid would gather in the ditch and there would be plenty of time to take preventive action , since it did not discharge to a stream for some distance . |
| 18 | Such generosity did not extend to a paper tie and crown that Picasso had made for Richardson ( also for Cooper ) on some gala occasion . |
| 19 | The Arab predilection for drama , at least in personal relationships , did not extend to a taste for Shakespeare 's comedies translated into Arabic , and the house was less than half full . |
| 20 | Lord Macnaghten in Pemsel did not aspire to a definition , but only to a classification of the then existing case law . |
| 21 | The strict out-door relief policy of the 1870s did not lead to a fall in total Poor Law expenditure . |
| 22 | Six subjects did not consent to a glucose tolerance test and tolerance was determined from fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentrations . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal considered that the information did not amount to a trade secret . |
| 24 | Trover became a complete alternative to replevin despite the fact that it could be argued that , the goods being regarded as in the custody of the law , the distraint did not amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 25 | Without this provision it was possible to have a share-for-debenture exchange which fell within s127 TCGA 1992 and did not amount to a disposal even though the debenture was an exempt simple debt , rather than a security . |
| 26 | His allowing the customer to have possession of the car did not amount to a representation that the customer had the right to sell it . |
| 27 | It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier . |
| 28 | ( e ) The suicide did not amount to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 29 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 30 | For the reasons I have given , I conclude that if ( but only if ) Lautro did not afford to a person or firm served with an intervention notice in accordance with rule 7.3(12) the opportunity to apply to the board to rescind the notice , and/or to appeal against it , then the lack of such remedies would be unfair and the procedure unlawful . |