Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 2 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 3 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 4 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 5 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |
| 6 | However , as suggested at the beginning of this chapter , the target group for the intervention should be particularly vulnerable in some way , that is , be predisposed biologically to a major psychiatric disorder , or be low in self-esteem , poor in coping skills , or low in support . |
| 7 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 8 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
| 9 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 10 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 11 | Similarly , an unexpectedly low price will be attributed partly to a negative aggregate demand shock and partly to a negative relative demand shock . |
| 12 | His attention was drawn instead to a small shiny figure on a bookshelf brandishing a flute , a rattle and an outsized erection . |
| 13 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |
| 14 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 15 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 16 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 17 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 18 | Clearing slips are collected by LIFFE officials and the details entered on to a computerized matching system . |
| 19 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 20 | This means that all people over pension age who are not in full-rime work have a statutory right to have their income brought up to a guaranteed weekly level . |
| 21 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Young people are brought up in the age of the video , so they can assimilate television that is cut quickly to a good musical beat , whereas older viewers would think , ‘ Oh God , it 's too fast and I ca n't stand all that dreadful loud music ’ , ’ Shapero says . |
| 23 | As I write , the invitation has gone out to a thousand mainstream church leaders to attend a London conference , ‘ to equip church leaders who desire to develop the gift and ministry of prophecy . ’ |
| 24 | The shield is awarded annually to a local public house which has raised the most money for the Institution during the past year . |
| 25 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |
| 26 | O'Shea , an oboe player who had also made albums for a west London record label , admitted the manslaughter of Miss Turner and was sent indefinitely to a secure mental hospital . |
| 27 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 28 | In addition , since the function M is essentially determined up to a removable constant for any V and W by equations ( 6.22b , c ) , the initial data is effectively described by specifying only the metric functions V and W on the boundaries and . |
| 29 | The tallest Turk has resigned and in a fit of unparalleled generosity the Commander has ruled that his uniform should be sent instantly to a fast dry cleaners . |
| 30 | This was hooked up to a DC-2031 cached IDE host adaptor with 2Mb of RAM . |