Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 2 | THE Attorney General is to review the three year sentence given to a killer who strangled and dismembered a Co Donegal woman . |
| 3 | The leaving present given to an ambassador could still take a variety of different forms . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 2 ) Determinations of complaints under recognised schemes shall be made by reference to what is , in the adjudicator 's opinion , fair in all the circumstances of the case and any direction given to a building society or associated body by an adjudicator may ( if the complainant accepts the determination ) require it or the complainant not to exercise or require the performance of any of the contractual or other obligations or rights subsisting between them . |
| 5 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 6 | The prolific striker added to a succession of first-half near-misses with another spectacular shot on the turn which just went over the Ipswich bar . |
| 7 | The motor noise dropped to a rumble and feet clattered around his car . |
| 8 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 9 | It may be difficult deciding when sentences of this kind come to an end — in some cases , several dozen clauses might be linked by and or other devices , lasting several minutes — but , it is unusual to find a problem understanding what is being said . |
| 10 | Its essential elements are the first vote given to a constituency candidate , the second vote given to a party list , and that list itself . |
| 11 | Its essential elements are the first vote given to a constituency candidate , the second vote given to a party list , and that list itself . |
| 12 | Concurrents Concurrents is the term given to a number in the series 1 to 7 assigned to each year , and has close correspondence with the dominical letter . |
| 13 | Another Orton diary entry referred to a man complaining about the TV show being a ‘ fake ’ — presumably because he could see they worked from scripts . |
| 14 | Preceded by to the infinitive is felt to evoke an action referred to a point in time prior to its realization : ( la ) above situates call as being supposed to follow the existence of the obligation to realize this event , denoted by had . |
| 15 | The pound plunged to a record low against the mark yesterday in the wake of a row over a document revealing how Germany tried to prop sterling . |
| 16 | What we can clearly recognise , however , is that it is a religion committed to a view that God is personal in a different manner from that in which individual human beings are personal . |
| 17 | Conversely , a female hinny mated to a donkey always produces a donkey . |
| 18 | Had her career as an actress come to an end ? |
| 19 | The drawing related to a shortfall in earnings from exports and services in 1990-91 attributable to the uncertainty created by the Gulf War . |
| 20 | Fans barracked Shreeves as the club slumped to a club record 11 home first division defeats and the club also experienced disappointment on the cup front . |
| 21 | Quality Control is the term applied to a system of standards-setting , performance-measurement and action in relation to the quality of a product . |
| 22 | Counter-culture , it might be said , was no loose term applied to a bunch of idle west coast hippies , whose philosophies were being trendily copied the world over . |
| 23 | This form of role-reversal is known as polyandry , a term applied to a woman who has more than one husband . |
| 24 | In recent years some brewers have started to use a cask breather , a simple demand valve connected to a cask and a CO2 cylinder which maintains the gas pressure inside the cask as the beer is drawn off . |
| 25 | Around the world , many cultures believe that any harm done to a dolphin may cause ill-fortune or sickness . |
| 26 | This uses a video camera mounted on the tractor roof matched to a monitor screen on the dashboard to give the driver a view of what 's going on behind him without the need to turn round . |
| 27 | The defendant or the court of its own motion can , under the Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Transfer of Proceedings to County Courts ) ( 1991 ) 26 July [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 643 ) , apply to have the action transferred to a county court under the County Courts Act 1984 , s40 ( as amended ) . |
| 28 | The Mechrolab osmometer , shown schematically in figure 9.3 , consists of a solution + solvent cell of volume approximately 1 cm 3 , with the solvent side connected to a reservoir attached to a servo-driven elevator . |
| 29 | The murmur swelled to a roar . |
| 30 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |