Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to a " in BNC.

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1 The storm builds to a particular intensity .
2 ‘ A Primary Darkfall is where the storm builds to a pitch and there is one strike .
3 He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA .
4 THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman .
5 THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman .
6 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 .
7 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 ) .
8 ‘ ( 2 ) Determinations of complaints under recognised schemes shall be made by reference to what is , in the adjudicator 's opinion , fair in all the circumstances of the case and any direction given to a building society or associated body by an adjudicator may ( if the complainant accepts the determination ) require it or the complainant not to exercise or require the performance of any of the contractual or other obligations or rights subsisting between them .
9 The previously-announced £1 billion cost of rationalising BAe 's heavily-loss-making regional aircraft division led to a £1.2 billion pre-tax loss at the aircraft and defence group in the year to December .
10 The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work .
11 Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC .
12 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 .
13 Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way .
14 ZOMAX , a new pain-killing drug given to a million people in the UK over the last two years is being withdrawn by the manufacturers , pending changes in the prescribing information issued to doctors .
15 Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment .
16 In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism .
17 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 .
18 There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals .
19 The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality .
20 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 .
21 The decision to proceed to a currency union and accordingly revise the Rome Treaty was reached on political grounds , just as was the case with the signing of the original Treaty of Rome , the creation of the EMS and the ratification of the Single European Act .
22 The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus .
23 A MC clause obviously sustains collusion by creating an incentive for a buyer to report to a seller keeping to the agreement prices of a seller who may be cheating on the agreement , at the same time nullifying the effect of the latter .
24 Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson
25 Inevitably , this decision led to a reaction from some polytechnic directors that it was quite wrong that a chartered body , through an adverse report , should have the power to induce the collapse of an institution .
26 In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season .
27 We are therefore of the opinion that the faster two components seen in the SDS-sequestration technique correspond to a weaker subset of GC sites and possibly other non-GC sites as well .
28 Nevertheless , there was a very close relationship between employment opportunities and trends of immigration , especially from the Caribbean ; Ceri Peach 's research demonstrates that throughout the 1950s periods of economic expansion led to a rise in immigration while periods of recession led to a decline ( Peach , 1968 ) .
29 The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures .
30 Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being .
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