Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 32 | ‘ Sitaki mafi zako bwana ’ ( Do n't give me your shit mister — Swahili slang ) , as my ayah once said to a door-stepping American missionary . |
| 33 | I once suggested to a French audience that a book on Les silences du Colonel Polybe would be instructive . |
| 34 | The Cottage is opposite the Civic Theatre , a pretty good place for a restaurant to be , in premises that latterly belonged to a double glazier and some time before that were a three ball , fully paid up pawnbroker 's . |
| 35 | The conference also agreed to a new co-operation arrangement on fisheries surveillance allowing patrol boats to arrest illegal fishermen in the territorial waters of another member state . |
| 36 | They also agreed to a near doubling of aid to the Third World , but failed to reach a common position on the period of time over which the increase would be phased in . |
| 37 | Finance Ministers also agreed to a US-sponsored move to provide large-scale debt relief to Egypt and Poland . |
| 38 | It also led to a fundamental questioning of the whole basis of the Keynesian model of which , since 1958 , the Phillips curve had come to be regarded as an indispensable part . |
| 39 | It also led to a marked inflation of the number of high-ranking officers . |
| 40 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 41 | The ‘ offensive ’ article in the London Evening Standard also referred to a nude poster wrongly said to adorn her office wall , the High Court heard . |
| 42 | It also referred to a local resident objecting to the scheme . |
| 43 | They also contributed to a growing consciousness of the value of collectivism and of alliances among sections of the lesbian and gay trade movement . |
| 44 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 45 | Former world champion Steve Davis also raced to a 5-0 victory in his match against the Australian John Campbell . |
| 46 | , Robert ( c. 1591–1652 ) , naval officer , was born c .1591 in Landulph , Cornwall , and probably belonged to a junior seafaring branch of a landed family settled in Devon . |
| 47 | In addition a bronze arm was found , 133 cm in length , which probably belonged to a colossal statue . |
| 48 | The independent artisan and small shopkeeper clearly belonged to a lower middle class or Mittelstand which had little in common with the bourgeoisie except aspiration to its social status . |
| 49 | They also went to a running stream at midnight . |
| 50 | The prize for the best European short also went to a British entry , Perfect Image by Maureen Blackwood . |
| 51 | Expensive cuts of lamb also increased to a larger degree than cheaper cuts , apart from the cheapest cut , breast of lamb , which rose most of all . |
| 52 | The computer industry also conformed to a common American pattern of running into anti-trust difficulties — following IBM 's overwhelmingly successful System/360 offerings of the early 1960S . |
| 53 | The blaze also spread to a neighbouring house , damaging three windows and some plastic guttering . |
| 54 | The king also depended to a considerable degree upon individuals who , like the leaders of the companies of the previous century , served in the royal army : Poton de Xaintrailles was for a period a ‘ veritable routier ’ , pillaging in different parts of France before accepting office under Charles VII ; Antoine de Chabannes , a captain of routiers , at one time had command of 1,000 horsemen before finding employment under the crown . |
| 55 | Foxes became much more wide-ranging in their search for food , since they also depended to a large extent upon rabbits . |
| 56 | The poll also pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats in elections for lieutenant-governor and attorney-general . |
| 57 | The poll also pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats in elections for lieutenant-governor and attorney-general . |
| 58 | Labour also pointed to a significant north-south divide on new jobs , with the north having lost 330,000 jobs since 1979 , and the south having gained 1.1 million . |
| 59 | Main Line 's lawyers said during a trial in state court that Basinger suffered from an ‘ ego run amok ’ and that her backing out led to a year-long delay and a loss of between £3.3m and £6.6m . |
| 60 | It was clear from the type of contract entered into ( purchase of seed to grow a commercial crop to be sold for profit ) that the likely loss , caused if the defendants supplied defective seed , would exceed the purchase price by such an amount ( namely the value of the ultimate crop ) that the limitation really amounted to a total exclusion of liability . |