Example sentences of "to a [adj] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics charged that the change would lead to a greater inequalities in the provision of welfare , but the shift of power back to the states was generally welcomes . |
| 2 | Up to a dozen candidates in the concurrent municipal elections [ see below ] were reportedly assassinated . |
| 3 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 4 | ‘ Did that swift eclipse torture you ? /A star at eighteen and then — suddenly gone/ down to a few lines in the back page of a teenage annual/oh but I remember you/I looked up to you ’ — ‘ Little Man , What Now ? ’ . |
| 5 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 6 | She would not allow him to sidle away into the night leaving her to kow-tow to an irate Spittals in the morning . |