Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |
| 2 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 3 | Ferguson refers to a pub and club session that Norman Whiteside and I had , and that come Friday I could n't train — even though , he said , I was supposed to be playing against Queens Park Rangers . |
| 4 | Mait drew to a halt , Henri , Carrefour and Richmann pulling up beside him . |
| 5 | The MCC reported to a council of resident representatives . |
| 6 | At a conference organized in June 1950 by the Liturgical Institute of Trier , a lecture by Romano Guardini led to a resolution calling upon the German bishops to request Rome to move the long Holy Saturday service from the early morning to the late evening , thus again making it the vigil service it once had been . |
| 7 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 8 | Elling clung to a cliff face that lent its dwellings protection from the wind and provided the inhabitants with an uninterrupted view over the sound . |
| 9 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 10 | In his last letter , Tristram referred to a document he was sending — or intending to send — to Beatrix . |
| 11 | Joan and Michael Ramsey moved to a house in Newnham , not far from where he lodged when he was vicar of St Benet 's eleven years before : 3 Wordsworth Grove . |
| 12 | Meredith came to a halt by the florists and stared mistrustfully into the window . |
| 13 | Database technology , interoperability and network integration and open systems and industry standards are the key technological issues facing HP Unix and MPE users in the US , Canada and Mexico according to a survey of MIS managers by Interex , the International Association of Hewlett-Packard Computer Users , based upon 820 replies . |
| 14 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 15 | ‘ If a painter asked me what was the first step necessary for painting a table ’ Picasso remarked to a friend at this time , ‘ I should say , measure it . ’ |
| 16 | What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty … |
| 17 | It was hardly the way her readers would expect the creator of Nathan Latimer to react to a crisis , she thought , ashamed of her weakness . |
| 18 | The refined X-ray structure of CypA bound to a tetrapeptide which was used in molecular replacement has an r.m.s.d. of 1.1 ( all atoms ) from the pentamer protomers . |
| 19 | It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ . |
| 20 | At Caen Musgrave went to a regatta , where seven thousand spectators lined the dockside . |
| 21 | Philpott crossed to a map of Europe on the wall as Rust reached for the telephone to relay the orders . |
| 22 | The task of liberating Kuwait fell to a combination of US Marines , Saudi and Kuwaiti forces . |
| 23 | Jekub rolled to a halt . |
| 24 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 25 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 26 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 27 | Montgomerie pointed to a scoreboard showing a Moroccan amateur with scores of 101 and 86 for a 43-over-par total of 187 , and a Spanish professional with rounds of 98 and 87 to his name . |
| 28 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 29 | The religious divisions in Sussex came to a head when Mary Tudor 's brief reign brought a return to hard-line Catholicism . |
| 30 | When I started stravaiging about the bens and glens more than 50 years ago , I had never heard the name Munro applied to a hill . |