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 In support of the National Gallery 's case Mr Vlnas points to a 1946 agreement signed between Slovak officials and the gallery exchanging the altar for 380 prints , ten Gothic paintings , and twelve Gothic statues .
8 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 .
9 The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics .
10 Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home .
14 ADAM RUCKWOOD raced to a British 200 metres backstroke record in Sheffield yesterday .
15 Corbett returned to a grinning Ranulf , who was holding the heads of the horses .
16 James Halden returned to a tall , red-brick house in Clerkenwell , a private asylum where he was employed as permanent physician .
17 It is a tale of simple kindness which Frankie Howerd offered to a lonely teenage boy during one short summer .
18 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 .
19 Knossos , Mallia and Zakro belong to a second type of Minoan town : one where the settlement surrounds and is dominated by an important temple .
20 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 .
21 Tossing his head , Frere braked to a sudden stop .
22 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 .
23 For Delves Dzhenchurayev , a Kyrgyz married to a Ukrainian , the confusion is acute , compounded by the ethnic complexity of his family .
24 At the top end of the draw , the United States swept to a 3-0 win over Denmark and will next face Austria .
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 FRAU NORDERN woke to a clear cold light and , to her amazement , Herr Nordern looming over her with a coffee .
29 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 .
30 the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught .
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