Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 2 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 3 | It is also believed that the no-OSF/1 decision , made in the midst of the recent flurry of reorganisations that have left DEC somewhat muddled , was made — perhaps unilaterally — by Stone whose heart apparently belongs to Alpha and that its reversal is something of an internally staged palace revolt . |
| 4 | Faith only speaks to faith . |
| 5 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 6 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 7 | All gold and silver rather turn to dirt ! |
| 8 | In our problem the men whom the defendant presumably sends to death are themselves dragging the leader to what will otherwise be his death . |
| 9 | The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth . |
| 10 | At the bottom , five sealed envelopes with smaller quantities of cocaine inside come to light . |
| 11 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 12 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 13 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 14 | This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations . |
| 15 | Law Report : Employee not entitled to payment from redundancy fund : Secretary of State for Employment v Levy — Employment Appeal Tribunal ( Mr Justice Wood , Mr R J Lewis and Mr J A Scouller ) , 4 October 1989 |
| 16 | Other people may go on to develop further symptoms of their HIV infection including persistent swelling of the lymph glands in the neck , armpits and groin , continuous tiredness , unexplained weight loss , continuous dry cough not related to smoking , diarrhoea , thrush , unexplained bleeding , shortness of breath , cold sores , night sweats and fevers . |
| 17 | A worthy churchman more addicted to hunting than to academics . |
| 18 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 19 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 20 | Yup , if the music marathon ever began to flag and the 26-mile version was a non-starter , then the TV election race made for a vital diversion . |
| 21 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 22 | And it brought Joy more than admiring glances — her cute car also led to romance . |
| 23 | The political side also relates to defence . |
| 24 | This difference in torque capability also applies to variable-reluctance stepping motors and is very significant in determining optimum velocity profiles ( Section 6.3 ) . |
| 25 | RM1 , on the other hand , returns all possible word matches , but performs the search strictly left to right . |
| 26 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 27 | Unsurprisingly , dinner-table talk often turns to incorporation and limited liability . |
| 28 | Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill . |
| 29 | He studied in every spare moment he could find , not because he wanted to but because , in the absence of parents who would pay , he needed to win a scholarship even to get to school . |
| 30 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |