Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater , I watched the pastel purple of the Tanzanian dawn slowly change to a golden red . |
| 2 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 3 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 4 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 5 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 6 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 7 | It suggests that of the subjects that usually comprise the humanities , philosophy need not necessarily be identified with the humanities at all , literature and the other arts are defined by their concern with art-objects and history arguably belongs to a broader conception of ‘ human sciences ’ . |
| 8 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 9 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 10 | France successfully objected to a proposed severing of air-links . |
| 11 | By 1917 Unionists had more cause to fear than to rejoice , for the Labour movement had been greatly strengthened by the war in both its aspects ; increasing membership and growing militancy in the trades unions , growing confidence in the Labour party , the arrival of organized revolutionary extremism in the shop-stewards " movement all pointed to a grim future . |
| 12 | The Z2 Carbonate is also widely known as the Hauptdolomit ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Rhys 1975 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Wagner et a/. 1978 ) but strictly speaking this name only refers to a particular part of the formation . |
| 13 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 14 | This difference is important when the motor is producing maximum ( pull-out ) torque , because any small increase in load causes the open-loop system to stall , whereas the closed.loop system merely slows to a lower speed ; the open.loop system is unstable , but the closed.loop system is stable . |
| 15 | It arises when an immune animal is suddenly exposed to a massive larval challenge , usually from a heavily contaminated field . |
| 16 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 17 | In the 1912 London dock strike , the Transport Workers ' Federation had been willing enough to agree to a joint board and but for Lord Devonport 's stubborn resistance this might have been achieved . |
| 18 | The misrepresentation is not necessarily limited to an exact copy of the name or " get-up " . |
| 19 | In particular if the external situation is conceived of as changing through time , the phrase " as initially present to the mind " by no means necessarily refers to an earlier state of a real or imaginary referent . |
| 20 | It introduces non-state actors and so belongs to a new pluralism in International Relations . |
| 21 | Many bedrooms offer panoramic Sea Views , some offering Fourposter or Water beds with Jacuzzi baths , all furnished to a high standard , all are en suite and fully equipped with Colour TV ** radio , direct-dial telephone , trouser press , hairdryer , mini-safe and hospitality tray . |
| 22 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 23 | It suddenly ground to a skidding halt and they were all thrown forward . |
| 24 | In France , where a new class of naval engineers concerned with the building and repair of ships was created in 1765 , shipbuilding was perhaps carried to a higher pitch of perfection than anywhere else in Europe . |
| 25 | In any case , many of its members in the late 18th century , though not yet necessarily committed to a full-blooded doctrine of ‘ laissez-faire ’ , were moving towards a political philosophy involving less , not more , government intervention in everyday affairs , leaving the ‘ natural ’ market forces of supply and demand to regulate the economy as best they may . |
| 26 | The offence extends to oral misdescription and is not necessarily confined to a contractual relationship with the customer ( Fletcher v Sledmore [ 1973 ] RTR 371 ) . |
| 27 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |
| 28 | This was an entirely false statement , obviously damaging to a thriving professional musician . |
| 29 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 30 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |