Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only that , he says would ensure that such disputes over legal procedure were sorted out before a case ever went to trial . |
| 2 | If a case ever goes to court , the outcome may be unfavourable . |
| 3 | But narration is seen in The Dear Deceit as the original and persistent obstacle to ‘ truth ’ because the process of constructing a story inevitably leads to falsification . |
| 4 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 5 | He studied in every spare moment he could find , not because he wanted to but because , in the absence of parents who would pay , he needed to win a scholarship even to get to school . |
| 6 | The left wing advanced a short distance beyond the Steenbeek rivulet and Langemarck , a village now reduced to rubble . |
| 7 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 8 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 9 | Stokesley , indeed , possessing neither trade nor manufacturers , has no appearance of bustle or business , and is a place well adapted to retirement . ’ |
| 10 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 11 | This could be done by charging on the basis of marginal supply cost for water ( if feasible ) and redistributing income , to allow people to allocate their income between water and other goods on the basis of market prices , or charging on a basis more related to income than to use ( e.g. based upon property valuations ) . |
| 12 | Hares ( but not rabbits ) are particularly vulnerable to paraquat , a herbicide often applied to stubble in the autumn so that it can be easily burned . |
| 13 | Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too , |
| 14 | It failed to resolve the question of foreign influence in Korea , which a decade later led to war between China and Japan . |
| 15 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 16 | Have your lunch and get a bath then go to bed . |
| 17 | Cos I 'm doing about what , about three hundred fi three hundred fifty miles a week just going to work and back |
| 18 | At Freiston Shore there is a hostelry well known to bird watchers where they do a Root pub lunch … |
| 19 | Despite being fined £500 for making foul and abusive comments to match officials whilst managing Doncaster Rovers , Bremner wielded a rod of discipline and rarely bothered to reflect on his image as a rogue newly attuned to respectability . |
| 20 | Ozone is a gas closely related to oxygen . |
| 21 | This poised and slightly red wine shows great purity of Cabernet fruit and is the work of Piergiovanni Pistone-Salice , a man totally committed to quality . |
| 22 | It is truly amazing that in a civilized country with a government staunchly committed to law and order , or so they say , that the tax payer , you Mr President , you fellow delegates , me , and my members , our members , are left to pick up a bill amounting to millions of pounds as a result of actions by certain employers , which are , without doubt , criminal , but not against the law . |
| 23 | The Tilford Bach Festival continues to pay homage to J.S. Bach and his contemporaries in a church ideally suited to Baroque music , and a village little changed in appearance since Barbara Gregory and Denys Darlow had their inspired vision 40 years ago . |
| 24 | The French psychiatrist Pierre Deniker , records that a substance closely related to promethazine and later known as chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950 and ‘ would have remained on the shelves had the surgeon and physiologist Henri Laborit not asked the manufacturer for a drug with central effects stronger than those of promethazine ’ . |
| 25 | A thought suddenly came to mind . |
| 26 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 27 | So the request for une glace in a restaurant unambiguously refers to ice-cream and it is this aspect which must be interpreted . |
| 28 | Progress on these areas of activity should be detailed , with a statement also relating to achievement of targets . |
| 29 | This was commenced by President Ford ( a Republican ) , continued and enhanced by President Carter ( a Democrat nominally committed to peace ) and taken to an even higher level by President Reagan into the 1980s . |
| 30 | Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat . |