Example sentences of "[to-vb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 2 | Erm next I propose as a , er , resolution four which is a special resolution and s set out in the notice of the meeting and is to modify to a limited extent , the obligations relating to the allotment of shares for cash contained in section eighty nine of the Companies Act . |
| 3 | ANY SERENITY MOONCHILDREN wanting to write to a real cosmic far-out gal , get scribbling ! |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd like to write to a young lady of fifteen plus , over 5ft , not fussy about looks but please send photo . ’ |
| 5 | WANTED : FEMALES OVER 16 any size , any shape to write to a bored 19-year-old male who 's fed up with being single for most of the year . |
| 6 | 280 , the defendants , owners of a newspaper , carried an advertisement in each issue informing readers who wanted financial advice to write to a given address . |
| 7 | Sails are kept ready rigged , ready for action , and all rigs are interchangeable with all boards — an unrivalled opportunity to try to a wide range of sails with a wide range of boards . |
| 8 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 9 | Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities . |
| 10 | But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account . |
| 11 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 12 | The difficulty is that we do not have enough evidence to come to a sure conclusion . |
| 13 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 14 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 16 | A special US committee has been convened to come to a final decision about the fate of the spotted owl and its habitat of old growth forests in south-west Oregon . |
| 17 | I am in regular contact with the programmer , who is using the ‘ functional specification ’ to come to a fuller technical specification which we will agree . |
| 18 | From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal . |
| 19 | It has been deemed just , in consideration of the share borne by the Servians in this war , to come to a solemn agreement respecting their security . |
| 20 | when you multiply that one by that one , it 's got to come to a hundred and twenty man days again . |
| 21 | It is difficult to come to a firm view on these matters , but the nature of support for third parties is clearly of particular significance and affords a crude test of the Alt view — especially in the case of new parties where there can be no established sense of partisan identification . |
| 22 | It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment . |
| 23 | We said it would be difficult , erm and that discussion has proved how difficult it is to come to a firm conclusion . |
| 24 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 25 | Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go . |
| 26 | Pupils can be helped to come to a deeper understanding of other peoples and/or events with the questioner 's guidance . |
| 27 | Their on-off relationship , which seemed to come to a sudden end two years ago , was re-kindled earlier this year with a romantic holiday to Mauritius . |
| 28 | The Company 's management evidently came to the conclusion that the only effective way to avoid the expense of lifting the rails , was to come to a speedy agreement with the L.C.C . |
| 29 | It is not , as far as Beth or Lucy are concerned , about escape from tedium but about using the imagination to come to a provisional understanding of a view of reality . |
| 30 | He trained a bee to come to a particular source ( black in the fig. ) ; and then put out seven similar food sources at various distances from the hive . |