Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , every three years or so , a strident siren echoed across the Dantesque landscape of Winnington to signal the moment for everyone within eye- or ear-shot to retire to a safe distance and to watch the plant reduce itself to a concrete skeleton . |
| 2 | a narrow strip of paper or linen pasted to a single leaf to allow sewing into a section for binding . |
| 3 | Any tendency to diffuseness or ambiguity led to a wide range of interpretations and allowed teachers and heads to assert in good faith , whatever the nature of their practice , that they were implementing the LEA 's policies and principles . |
| 4 | This does not mean ‘ just-enough ’ telecommunications on site ; it may also mean the nearness to a micro-wave or satellite TV link or surface links to a major town . |
| 5 | A dialogue which has an abnormally high number of words or structures related to a particular topic . |
| 6 | At the Olympic Games in Barcelona this year , the spectacle of the 100 metres will provide an almost sadistically tremulous thrill for the spectator , a perfect metaphor for those hidden seconds when one 's own life was changed by the failure or ability to rise to a demanding moment of crisis . |
| 7 | As a result , for the bulk of those who delayed a decision about early retirement , unemployment or sickness amounted to a similar economic status to early retirement : non-employment . |
| 8 | On the very same day as its official launch , three environmental groups — Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment — presented their own solution to the waste dilemma . |
| 9 | I would want to argue from this that rather than the combination of gender and text leading to a particular kind of meaning being produced , particular kinds of reading are being used to mark gender difference . |
| 10 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
| 11 | If there is no-one nearby it is well worth time and money to travel to a good director , perhaps with visits twice or three times a year . |
| 12 | The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " . |
| 13 | After the presentation of trophies the Scottish Amicable teams and supporters retired to a local hostelry for a victory and re-union celebration . |
| 14 | The important technique , which keeps you going as an automaton until interest and desire take over , and concentration sharpens to a fine point , is that of having a rigorous time-table of study laid down in advance . |
| 15 | All it does is answer nothing and demands answers to a whole host of other questions . |
| 16 | Bishop Konstant says : ‘ On the larger issue we will need time , information and guidance to come to a clear understanding of the morality of such situations . |
| 17 | The centre section deals with gastrointestinal fermentation and metabolism leading to a final section on the whole animal . |
| 18 | A critical point is then reached after which a patient will either die from the disease , or survive if the parasites are killed and parasitaemia returns to a manageable level . |
| 19 | The close relationship between the research on Zeta and tokamaks led to a cooperative experiment involving the UK and the Soviet Union in 1969 . |
| 20 | It has a pleasant main lounge , with TV and bar leading to a sunny verandah . |
| 21 | While obvious omissions and errors led to a large number of entrants ' disqualification at an early stage , the judges found that , on the whole , standards of compliance with best practice had improved . |
| 22 | PREVIOUSLY uncatchable fish are being suckered into grabbing baits and flies attached to a new ‘ invisible ’ line . |
| 23 | A high proportion of the oldest books are Gospel books or Psalters , several of them with vernacular glosses and translations testifying to a low level of Latinity ; testifying too to their close connection with the Anglo-Saxon dynasty in the gifts of such benefactors as King Athelstan . |
| 24 | The 51 dairy cows and heifers sold to a top price of £1,430 , £1,310 and £1,230 all for calved Friesians . |
| 25 | SO NEAR , YET SO FAR : The closest Charles and Di got to a united front in Nottingham yesterday Picture : KENT GAVIN |
| 26 | The latter is concerned with the duties and rights attached to a particular job title . |
| 27 | ( Professor Dudek has demonstrated that from a base of only 1.7 per cent of the population , the input in terms of literature and art amounts to a staggering 25 per cent . ) |
| 28 | America and the Western world expected his experience , energy and competence to contribute to a distinguished Presidency . |
| 29 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 30 | Poly(A) + RNA ( 1 m g ) was mixed with oligo ( dT ) 12- 18 ( 0.5 µg ) and water added to a total volume of 11 µl . |