Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | They only appeal to a few , and some people are repelled by them . |
2 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
3 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
4 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
5 | I 'd like to start before I explain that , just to refer to a few comments that Mr made . |
6 | Er oh , before we do that let's just n just listen to a few more seconds of this tape . |
7 | It usually leads to a few cracked paving stones , ’ he said . |
8 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
9 | If an organisation is market leader and has a size and presence which can ensure that manpower planning is possible so that most jobs can be filled from graduate entry , then the need for an executive search firm is probably limited to a few specialist or technical appointments . |
10 | This also applies to a few P1 units which take a column of C cells end-to-end . |
11 | This is one of the reasons for the choice of hymns and other music being so often limited to a few old war-horses . |
12 | Free milk to pupils was abolished in 1981 and now applies to a few very special cases . |
13 | The level of the solution is then adjusted to a few centimetres above the level of solvent in s by means of a levelling rod 1 . |
14 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |