Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 2 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |
| 3 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 6 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 7 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 8 | Marcella poin'ted to a rather lean , severe-looking woman with deep-set eyes . |
| 9 | Mait drew to a halt , Henri , Carrefour and Richmann pulling up beside him . |
| 10 | The MCC reported to a council of resident representatives . |
| 11 | At a conference organized in June 1950 by the Liturgical Institute of Trier , a lecture by Romano Guardini led to a resolution calling upon the German bishops to request Rome to move the long Holy Saturday service from the early morning to the late evening , thus again making it the vigil service it once had been . |
| 12 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |
| 13 | Peter Walker points to a recent case , and advises credit managers to keep their heads |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 16 | Elling clung to a cliff face that lent its dwellings protection from the wind and provided the inhabitants with an uninterrupted view over the sound . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | WASIM AKRAM grabbed six wickets to send Surrey crashing to a 96-run defeat at The Oval to set Lancashire up for their Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final at Leicestershire today . |
| 19 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 20 | Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out . |
| 21 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 22 | In his last letter , Tristram referred to a document he was sending — or intending to send — to Beatrix . |
| 23 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 24 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 25 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
| 26 | Joan and Michael Ramsey moved to a house in Newnham , not far from where he lodged when he was vicar of St Benet 's eleven years before : 3 Wordsworth Grove . |
| 27 | Meredith came to a halt by the florists and stared mistrustfully into the window . |
| 28 | Database technology , interoperability and network integration and open systems and industry standards are the key technological issues facing HP Unix and MPE users in the US , Canada and Mexico according to a survey of MIS managers by Interex , the International Association of Hewlett-Packard Computer Users , based upon 820 replies . |
| 29 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 30 | ADAM RUCKWOOD raced to a British 200 metres backstroke record in Sheffield yesterday . |