Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 2 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
| 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 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 5 | Here were a team either playing to a manager 's orders and failing woefully , or simply not playing for him . |
| 6 | Therefore , additional evidence clearly pointing to a causal relation between H pylori infection and gastric ulcer disease has to be provided . |
| 7 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 8 | Gallo also quoted some of the latest work of Daniel Zagury 's team which has discovered a pentapeptide motif in gp120 which is also present in CD4 and which interferes with antigen activation possibly leading to a state of cell anergy and immunodeficiency . |
| 9 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never fully recover from injury to play soccer again according to a doctor who operated on the star 's injured right ankle . |
| 10 | Frenchman Roger Yves Bost , a member of the French World Gold Medal winning team in 1990 , scorched round in a time more fitting to a speed class . |