Example sentences of "[verb] to a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group 4 comprised follow up of histologically normal biopsy specimens from five patients , previously diagnosed as having coeliac disease , who had strictly adhered to a gluten free diet . |
| 2 | whether it 's nineteen ninety , ninety five which is relatively small , it widens to a potential sixteen point five million , fourteen point five million minimum , in ninety five , ninety six and to twenty seven point two million in ninety six , ninety seven . |
| 3 | mm they 're away at Plymouth , they might do , they might , they might not they 're winning runs got to come to an end some where |
| 4 | The 1 km successes were to come to an end this afternoon . |
| 5 | Years of danger and frustration for Blackfriars staff are to come to an end this summer with the installation of a traffic light controlled crossing over Stamford Street . |
| 6 | It consists of a hi-tech hang-glider wing mated to a rear-mounted 100 cc two-stroke engine driving an efficient carbon-fibre-bladed pusher propeller . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In England pop culture has a simultaneous function — inextricably intertwined to a degree unmatched anywhere else in the world of exploitation and expression : exploitation as the product of an industry at the sharp end of the new conditions of capitalism , expression by virtue of its position — which has occurred by default — as the main area of activity in our society which freely admits voices of both youth and change . |
| 9 | The cyclic AMP content of the cell suspension rose to a peak one minute after the addition of histamine at 37°C and then fell . |
| 10 | From an original figure of 142 to 3,356 in 1880 , and 6,705 in 1882 , club membership rose to a record 60,449 at the turn of the century . |
| 11 | By early November , however , prices had tumbled to $1,603.50 a tonne ( for immediate delivery ) , and fell steadily as stocks rose to a record 315,600 tonnes in December . |
| 12 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 13 | Experimental data from DNA melting studies show that the free energy increment per base pair added to a DNA double helix increases the helix stability at room temperature by a relatively small increment that is the difference between large and opposing enthalpy and entropy terms . |
| 14 | By section 434 of the Companies Act 1985 if inspectors appointed to investigate the affairs of a company consider that an officer or agent of the company ‘ or any other person ’ is in possession of information relating to a matter relevant to the investigation they may require him : |
| 15 | Defending solicitor Bob Emuss said that problems for Mrs. White had come to a head last February . |
| 16 | Sex between Henry and Elinor had come to a halt some four or five years ago and , from what Henry could remember about it , it was something that was better discontinued . |
| 17 | If ratifying the Protocol is viewed as the conferral of rights on the treaty parties under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention , those States can decide whether to accept the rights , and might object to a statement such as that made by the Soviet Union on this basis . |
| 18 | On Nov. 1 it was officially announced that the grain harvest had amounted to a record 240 million tonnes . |
| 19 | Each little hole etched corresponds to a binary 1 ( or a 0 , the labels are arbitrary ) . |
| 20 | Many large firms of solicitors now print their own explanatory leaflets dealing with the stages in conveyancing , and it is both useful and impressive to be able to hand over a printed leaflet or pamphlet at the time of the first meeting , so as to indicate to a client each of the detailed steps you will be taking on his or her behalf . |
| 21 | A great formula has been known to appear to a scientist ready-made in a dream as though he were a Siberian shaman , but unlike the shaman he accepts it not on the authority of the dream but because afterwards it satisfies his most stringent tests . |
| 22 | bank statements for the last twelve months if you are applying to a bank other than your own ; |
| 23 | The inhabitants of this tiny country next to Austria have the longest life expectancy in the world , with women living to an average 82.6 years , and males to 77.6 . |
| 24 | She set the time and was too happy to notice that he was more like a man listening to a door close than one going towards his joy . |
| 25 | When I read your page I felt like I was listening to a Party Political Broadcast of the Labour Party . |
| 26 | Whatever its precise terms an exclusion clause designed to operate on a national basis can not be justly applied to a party active in only one part of the country and putting up no candidates elsewhere . |
| 27 | If you listen to a text enough times you will come to a point where you more or less know it by heart , and the correct tunes will be sort of " ingrained " in your ind to such an extent that you will yourself react if you would say the text with the wrong intonation . |
| 28 | Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . |
| 29 | According to a church advisory committee it was ’ too ordered for a rural churchyard . ’ |
| 30 | About ¥8 billion will be set aside for on-campus LANs for 20–30 national universities , according to a government official involved in the negotiations with the Ministry of Finance . |