Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a follow up to its advice on what not to wear to an interview ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September , p 21 ) , Robert Half recruitment consultants — obviously not snowed under with work at the moment — has joined forces with Accountemps to unveil some of the stranger CVs companies have received over the years . |
| 2 | Of course , her letter has given me extra cause to continue thinking of her as ‘ Miss Kenton ’ , since it would seem , sadly , that her marriage is finally to come to an end . |
| 3 | Finally they let her go — the mother convinced that a boggle had possessed her daughter and only too glad to see the last of her , the father , heartbroken , soon to submit to an illness which his former self would have beaten off quite easily . |
| 4 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 5 | When the pressure is on to respond to an event after it happens , the client will then judge your professional competence . |
| 6 | An investigation was considered to have been concluded once a judgement had been made about whether the allegation(s) had been substantiated or not and decisions made about how to proceed to an outcome , for example , to close the case , offer treatment , call a case conference , etc . |
| 7 | To the disappointment of some of its supporters , the new Labour government proved to be by no means wedded to the idea that the British empire ought now summarily to come to an end . |
| 8 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 9 | Honestly , the scene he made , you 'd have thought the world was about to come to an end . |
| 10 | But his life of lace and glamour is about to come to an end . |
| 11 | TWELVE YEARS OF WEARING GREEN DUNGAREES ARE ABOUT TO COME TO AN END FOR HOMEBASE STAFF WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW UNIFORM . |
| 12 | In March they learnt how to react to an office accident and how to prevent such accidents . |
| 13 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |