Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And a little added to an almond base , and used as a massage oil , can help those who find it hard to sleep .
2 In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end .
3 His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained .
4 Hammersmith 's portfolio was almost entirely geared to an expectation that low interest rates in 1987-88 would remain .
5 Cross-frontier research and development ( including data processing ) , joint manufacturing or purchasing , marketing and professional services ( particularly with a joint database ) seem obvious candidates in this connection ; distribution arrangements particularly , where the manufacturer provides the goods and the agent contributes the legwork , seem naturally suited to an EEIG .
6 The gathering was suddenly brought to an end as a cluster of mortar bombs exploded on the village green shattering the windows of the café and dislodging bottles from the shelves .
7 It is therefore clear that as a result of the statutory machinery an individual can have a substantial measure of control over his own working life compulsorily delegated to an agent , a trade union , which he has not selected and may even have his own contract of service varied without his consent .
8 Reflecting the substantial barriers to international integration , prices have not come to an equilibrium across countries .
9 A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million .
10 Such terms are best confined to an appendix .
11 That question is not addressed to an association or a federation .
12 As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo .
13 It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end !
14 Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes .
15 Most of which I know some of them have already come to an end like Julie 's E S
16 We now know that these spherical electron opaque ‘ vacuoles ’ are indeed polyphosphate structures , functionally related to an energy and phosphorus reservoir , which are utilised in the absence of an exogenous source of energy .
17 After obtaining first the engaged tone and then the unobtainable tone — that would not happen now after privatisation — the caller was finally connected to an answerphone which said : ‘ This is Tim and Bridie Wallis 's number .
18 The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques .
19 But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year .
20 Even in Berlin the French legation was not raised to an embassy until 1862 ; and in the aftermath of the defeat of 1870 – 71 it was seriously proposed to save money by appointing only ministers and no ambassadors at all in future , though nothing came of this .
21 However , while the Architecture-Neutral Format is unlikely to appear on the market this year , Goldstein says that the Foundation plans to hold a conference on the technology at the end of the year , to find out which companies are interested in bringing the stuff to market and how it can be best introduced to an industry audience already blinded by science .
22 However , whilst ANDF is unlikely to appear in the market this year , Goldstein says OSF plans a conference on the technology for the end of the year to find out which companies are interested in running the stuff to market and how it can be best introduced to an industry audience already blinded by science .
23 A home of one 's own is a fundamental requirement but should be provided in the way best suited to an individual 's needs .
24 Similarly , a recent reduction in the West German prison population has not led to an increase in major crime or made the streets less safe ( Feest , 1999 ) .
25 So these problems and similar ones to them are generally led to an abandonment I suppose , or a lack of interest in feat in a pure feature analysis view to how we build up and recognise objects .
26 Erm , that paper reported on mortgage loans to employees , including two types of loan whereby the interest is not charged to an officer .
27 Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay .
28 Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay .
29 Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay .
30 Lamb had finally yielded to an invitation from Coleridge to travel west , and wrote at the end of June to say that he hoped to arrive at Stowey the following weak .
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