Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 2 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 3 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 4 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |
| 5 | Peter Walker points to a recent case , and advises credit managers to keep their heads |
| 6 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 7 | WASIM AKRAM grabbed six wickets to send Surrey crashing to a 96-run defeat at The Oval to set Lancashire up for their Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final at Leicestershire today . |
| 8 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 9 | Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out . |
| 10 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 11 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 12 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
| 13 | In his own attempt to ‘ map ’ the origins of life onto the individual psyche , Freud came to an unsettling conclusion . |
| 14 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 15 | ADAM RUCKWOOD raced to a British 200 metres backstroke record in Sheffield yesterday . |
| 16 | A treaty may exceptionally purport to bind all non-party States , States belonging to an identifiable category , or even named third States : |
| 17 | Corbett returned to a grinning Ranulf , who was holding the heads of the horses . |
| 18 | James Halden returned to a tall , red-brick house in Clerkenwell , a private asylum where he was employed as permanent physician . |
| 19 | It is a tale of simple kindness which Frankie Howerd offered to a lonely teenage boy during one short summer . |
| 20 | Beef demand in the United States increased to a level equivalent to 60 kg per head per annum by 1976 , but increasing prices there encouraged commercial interest in Central American beef . |
| 21 | But his 75 contained just one boundary and in all there were just six fours in the innings as Surrey crawled to a paltry 168 all out in 49 of the allotted 50 overs . |
| 22 | Tossing his head , Frere braked to a sudden stop . |
| 23 | As well as major campaigns in Morocco , Peru and in connection with the 30th Anniversary , AIBS responded to a wide range of emergency situations in Kuwait , El Salvador , Grenada , Yemen , East Timor , Kenya and on behalf of the Kurds . |
| 24 | For Delves Dzhenchurayev , a Kyrgyz married to a Ukrainian , the confusion is acute , compounded by the ethnic complexity of his family . |
| 25 | Scotch if you 've got it — or are you waving the emerald flag for the benefit of certain up-and:coming Irish politicians of the lineage of the closest thing we in the States have to a royal family ? ’ |
| 26 | When Shaw died in 1950 he was a very rich man — the net value of his estate was eventually assessed at around £6,250,000 in terms of today 's money ; and the closest Holroyd comes to a sustained narrative is in tracing the fate of his various bequests . |
| 27 | Striker Mike Small returns to a 15-man squad after suspension . |
| 28 | Nutty came to an agonised halt . |
| 29 | FRAU NORDERN woke to a clear cold light and , to her amazement , Herr Nordern looming over her with a coffee . |
| 30 | Although Nizan adhered to a clear set of communist principles between 1935 and 1939 , his psychological state fluctuated in accordance with national and international political events . |