Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expectation at an early age that career aspirations can not be met locally contributes to a lack of commitment to the home area and to the acceptance of out-migration as the inevitable solution . |
| 2 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 3 | In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , the greatest honour that could be conferred upon a scientist , and one rarely given to a zoologist . |
| 4 | Standing on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater , I watched the pastel purple of the Tanzanian dawn slowly change to a golden red . |
| 5 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 6 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 7 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 8 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 9 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 10 | Lewis was plump , and rather coarse in appearance ; Williams , who has been unkindly likened to a monkey , was actually rather ethereal in manner , with his long fingers and piercing eyes . |
| 11 | And like any dangerous idea , this one was eventually referred to a committee . |
| 12 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 13 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 14 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 15 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
| 16 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 17 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 18 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 19 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 20 | In the first place , as the age of marriage decreased , the years of potential childbearing for the wife increased , and this in turn eventually led to a shortening of the intervals between generations , so increasing the proportion of the population likely to get pregnant . |
| 21 | It suggests that of the subjects that usually comprise the humanities , philosophy need not necessarily be identified with the humanities at all , literature and the other arts are defined by their concern with art-objects and history arguably belongs to a broader conception of ‘ human sciences ’ . |
| 22 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 23 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 24 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 25 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 26 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 27 | And a little added to an almond base , and used as a massage oil , can help those who find it hard to sleep . |
| 28 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 29 | France successfully objected to a proposed severing of air-links . |
| 30 | There are a number of men only too anxious to buy themselves a knighthood who might be most attracted to a project that catches the public sympathy . ’ |