Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 2 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 3 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 4 | When children start school , they often develop all kinds of minor illnesses as they first become exposed to a large community ; a fact the nurse seeking her first employment after the birth of her child may not know . |
| 5 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |
| 6 | Loosely used in practice , these concepts , as they enter academia , become subjected to a concerted effort to force them to lie down and behave , to render them properly scientific . |
| 7 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 8 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 10 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |
| 11 | we 've moved to a bigger home , fucking scaled it up |
| 12 | They often agree to intercourse because they feel they must or they think they 've got to a certain age where they have to do it . |
| 13 | John Hancock , executive design engineer for the Engines Group division of Cosworth , said the engine received a lot of attention at the show in Detroit : ‘ We 've talked to a wide range of people who might want to use it , or derivatives of it , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Now we 've gone to a blue screen . |
| 15 | If you look around the towns and cities of Britain , you will find the same story , be it steel plants , those vast chemical plants , the big engineering works , they scarcely exist any more and if they still are there , they 've shrunk to a tiny part of their earlier size . |
| 16 | Since 1945 conversion rates have fallen to a lower level , of about 15,000 — 17,000 ha , and this is considered to be the direct result of stricter planning controls . |
| 17 | ‘ War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions , when they have developed to a certain stage , between classes , nations , states , or political groups , and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes . ’ |
| 18 | Once the seedlings have developed to a reasonable size , they should be transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 19 | My hon. Friends the Members for Croydon , North-West and for Ealing , North ( Mr. Greenway ) have referred to a vocational/non-vocational divide within our proposals . |
| 20 | Some scientists have pointed to a recent brightening of the sun as an important contributory factor to global warming . |
| 21 | Pundits are unanimous that recovery has arrived , but the string of statistics which have pointed to a vigorous upturn in the early part of the year have been greeted with caution . |
| 22 | Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial . |
| 23 | Firstly , different studies have pointed to an important role for somatostatin , present in paracrine cells in the antral mucosa , in the regulation of gastrin release under physiological and pathophysiological conditions . |
| 24 | Prices have dropped to a reasonable level , and we have buyers competing for them , with gazumping going on . |
| 25 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 26 | From this experience we have come to a new recognition of the marginalisation of North American cultural and ethnic groups . |
| 27 | Of course , many people concerned with language teaching have come to a similar conclusion . |
| 28 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 29 | They have come to a full stop . |
| 30 | In the name of Allah , things have come to a pretty pass if the tabloids are influencing England 's selection policy . |