Example sentences of "[adv] to a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 2 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 3 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 4 | £82 may not be much to a Cabinet Minister , but it is a fortune to many of our clients . |
| 5 | Maxim lifted him very gently to a sitting position . |
| 6 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |
| 7 | With r = 0 , Equation ( 2.7.1.5 ) becomes unc Hence if we choose co to make k1 zero , it will contain no contribution from x1 , and , as r increases sufficiently to a value s , ( 2.7.1.5 ) will tend to unc The condition unc means that we can express one element of co in terms of the remaining n — 1 . |
| 8 | He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it . |
| 9 | The song feels right , apropos to a midnight jaunt , a walk with a good friend . |
| 10 | The Act does not apply to all party floors but only to a floor partition which separates buildings or parts of buildings approached solely by separate staircases or entrances from without ( London Building Acts ( Amendment ) Act 1939 , s4 ) . |
| 11 | It actually failed to put the price of cigarettes up in the budget last year and most people agree that a high price would be a major disincentive , second only to a heart attack . |
| 12 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 13 | A higher price may be obtained by selling the properties separately to a property specialist , [ possibly at a later date in , hopefully , a more favourable economic climate ] . |
| 14 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 15 | Oh no , they want me to give it away to a Guitarist reader , and I suppose I ca n't argue with that . |
| 16 | He gave Jim 's clothes away to a refugee organization and pawned his watch to buy some clothes of his own choice for the interview . |
| 17 | The show was over , the audience had drifted away to a reception room where they would be further wooed with a glass of champagne and a selection of canapes and nibbles and Paula , dressed now in one of her own suits , smart black barathea , had emerged from the dressing rooms to meet the waiting Sally and Edward . |
| 18 | Descend easily to a point level with the base of the stack . |
| 19 | Standing on opposite sides of the mortar , they pounded alternately to a rhythm Mina chanted as she lifted her arms up , then brought the pestle heavily down , so it landed , thud , in the centre of the pool of grain . |
| 20 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 21 | The acting coxswain persevered , his crew , lifelines secured , out on deck scouring the sea for the divers until they spotted them , close to a creel buoy . |
| 22 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 23 | A further 13 fields are under development or close to a development decision . |
| 24 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender came close to a surprise Test cap in New Zealand recently |
| 25 | Igor Kasatonov , Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , described the ships 's flight as " close to a terrorist act " and protested against attempts by Ukraine to " snatch ships " . |
| 26 | That approach was also rejected , because it was getting too close to a rating system , but it would have had some logic , a factor that is entirely outwith the system with which we are now confronted . |
| 27 | An advertising poster for the clothing company Benetton which features a burning car has been put up close to a housing estate notorious for joyriders . |
| 28 | The incident happened close to a railway line near Northampton between Harlestone Village and Church Brampton . |
| 29 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 30 | And do n't site it too close to a house wall , or you will get sooty stains — unless you build some form of screening . |