Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there a chance — say a billion to one — that the Soviets might have this combination ? ’ |
| 2 | Sir Jeffrey , who has acted as unpaid and part-time special adviser to six trade and industry secretaries , yesterday added a seventh to his belt . |
| 3 | WENTWORTH 's Sally Prosser retained her eight-stroke overnight lead when she added a 71 to her opening 64 in the second round of the JAL Malaysia Open at Rahman Putra in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 4 | Watson slipped to a 77 in the third round while Nowicki shot his record breaking 67 , but the lead going into the final round was shared by MacPherson and Cottrell , who added a 71 to his earlier rounds of 73–74 . |
| 5 | SCOTLAND 's Gordon Manson added a 68 to his opening 65 to take a four-stroke lead after the second round of the Nigerian Open at the Ikoyi Golf Club in Lagos . |
| 6 | On a day when the pin positions and the weather conspired to have the second round asking still more difficult questions than the first , Knuth added a 77 to her opening 73 . |
| 7 | The same could not be said for the pre-tournament favourite , Jose Maria Olazabal , who added a 75 to his opening 76 . |
| 8 | Ian Woosnam added a 69 to his opening 67 and Mark Mouland , taking inspiration from his partner after a miserable season , produced a 70 . |
| 9 | Now he leads by two from Berkshire 's Barry Lane , who added a 70 to his course-record-equalling 64 , Fijian Vijay Singh ( 68 ) and South African Gavin Levenson ( 66 ) . |
| 10 | Gilford , winner of last month 's Moroccan Open , added a 66 to his first-day 65 and his nearest challengers are the Argentine Jorge Berendt ( 71 ) and the New Zealander Frank Nobilo ( 68 ) . |
| 11 | Overnight leader Fred Couples , who hit a course record-equalling 64 in the first round , shot 73 and is one stroke behind Larry Mize , who added a 67 to his opening 69 to take the lead . |
| 12 | He has had rounds of 65 and 68 on the 6,000-feet high Crans-sur-Sierre course , but Lanner went ahead of him yesterday by adding a 66 to his opening 65 . |
| 13 | Cos they 've got a next to nothing mortgage . |
| 14 | The odds seem a thousand to one against it . |
| 15 | The general issue of reconciling with his academic interests the feeling of social commitment to an underprivileged group with whom the researcher has built up a strong feeling of empathy is discussed by Labov ( 1982b ) ; this discussion forms a preliminary to his account of the use made of linguistic evidence by the defendants in the famous Black English Trial in Michigan . |