Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 2 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 3 | ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike . |
| 4 | This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases . |
| 5 | pehunan refers to a state of extreme vulnerability to dangers of all sorts that results from the frustration of an individual 's wishes ( see Dentan 1968 ; Robarchek 1977b , 1986b ) . |
| 6 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 7 | Whether the tape is a real recording of the voices of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles or not , its existence points to a concerted effort to damage Prince Charles . |
| 8 | Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment . |
| 9 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 10 | While it needs to be developed in terms of the production of ideologies by class formations , he regards it as a corrective to the view , often attributed to the sociology of knowledge , that a particular ideology belongs to a class . |
| 11 | Ferguson refers to a pub and club session that Norman Whiteside and I had , and that come Friday I could n't train — even though , he said , I was supposed to be playing against Queens Park Rangers . |
| 12 | The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality . |
| 13 | If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn . |
| 14 | Whether the increase in comparatively recent times points to a third population is a subject for Chapter 8 . |
| 15 | This is quite understandable if the non-specified version of the infinitive 's support corresponds to a " generalized person " : since this person is the virtual sum of all persons ( first , second or third ) , if to snow is not explicitly referred to it , the infinitive is felt as having a possible reference to " me " or " you " , which corresponds exactly to the impression produced by the sentence above and explains why it does not make sense . |
| 16 | Others are fitted as permanent onboard lighting units fed off the camcorder battery , and are arranged for either manual control or , in some cases , auto on/off as and when the ambient light level drops to a predetermined value . |
| 17 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 18 | Peter Walker points to a recent case , and advises credit managers to keep their heads |
| 19 | If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man … |
| 20 | The emphasis on culture and the attendant imagery of the nation composed of symmetrical family units contributes to a metaphysics of Britishness which has acquired racial referents . |
| 21 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 22 | This term refers to a situation of balance — a steady state . |
| 23 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 24 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) Rigby Electronics ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've just brought out a device for checking whether a credit card belongs to a particular person or not . |
| 26 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 27 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 28 | In support of the National Gallery 's case Mr Vlnas points to a 1946 agreement signed between Slovak officials and the gallery exchanging the altar for 380 prints , ten Gothic paintings , and twelve Gothic statues . |
| 29 | Despite the atomising tendency of fundamental physics , with its motto " divide and rule " , we have found that the EPR experiment points to a surprisingly integrationist view of the relationship of systems which have once interacted with each other , however widely they may subsequently separate . |
| 30 | This dilemma points to a central conflict of organizations — ‘ me ’ versus ‘ the system ’ . |