Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 2 | The task of liberating Kuwait fell to a combination of US Marines , Saudi and Kuwaiti forces . |
| 3 | How would old Carlo react to a kick on the ankle , her teeth in his wrist . |
| 4 | But at 140 Willey went to a superb catch by Roberts , and at the close they were on 146 for 5 , needing another 114 . |
| 5 | In March 1991 EFTA agreed to a request to start free trade negotiations with Israel . |
| 6 | Betting giant Ladbroke responded to a £10m upgrading to Pounds 170m of UBS Phillips & Drew 's profit forecast . |
| 7 | 6.8 Richard Duncan ( Ards ) who collected the 200m Freestyle for 11–12 year olds last night , netted a championship triple with victories in the 100m and 200m Backstroke. 8.5 Duncan cruised to a comfortable win over Lisburn 's Neal McGrann with a championship best time of 1.16.38 . |
| 8 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 9 | Poor Constance goes to a girls ’ school , comes home to her mother and visits a middle-aged woman about twice a week . |
| 10 | The spikey black Volkswagen growled to a halt before The Hangman 's Arms . |
| 11 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 12 | the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught . |
| 13 | BASF Lacke , Germany , and Yasar Holding , Turkey , have agreed to licence the use of BASF 's know-how in the field of automotive OEM paints to a Turkish company Dyosad , a subsidiary of Yasar Holding . |
| 14 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 15 | Of the pretreatment variables , the PTHrP concentration and serum phosphate correlated best with response ( table II ) : higher PTHrP was more likely to be associated with a poor response , whereas all treatments associated with undetectable PTHrP led to a good response . |
| 16 | Market Report : Fragile Footsie plunges to a ten-week low |
| 17 | Consequently , if we can exhibit one BFS corresponding to a tree , all BFSs will correspond to trees . |
| 18 | Flynn was the nearest John had to a right-hand man . |
| 19 | To her surprise , a red M.G. swung to a halt below the open kitchen window . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Chris Claridge , deputy chief executive of Highland Regional Council and the closest Inverness comes to a Eurocrat , counselled caution . |
| 21 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 22 | The optimists point out that the most substantial progress in Russian political life was the establishment of the Duma monarch ( 1906-1914 ) , the closest Russia got to a constitutional Government . |
| 23 | While the IET mainly encouraged supranationals and European multinationals to issue eurobonds ( partly at the expense of yankee issues ) , the mandatory VRP led to a sharp increase in use of the eurobond market by US firms . |