Example sentences of "[v-ing] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Fanshawe 's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six lengths win from Absalom 's Pillar . |
| 2 | MARTIN Bormann , one of Adolf Hitler 's top aides who dropped from sight after the Second World War , died of stomach cancer in Paraguay in 1959 , according to a confidential police report published in Asuncion yesterday . |
| 3 | Two South Africans and a Swazi were arrested after the discovery of the country 's largest arms haul , according to a Swazi police statement of March 9 , 1990 . |
| 4 | Poverty among young people on income support is now so bad that it 's affecting their physical and mental health , according to a leading children 's charity . |
| 5 | One reason is the ninety two percent approval rating it gets from victims of crime , according to a local police survey . |
| 6 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 7 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |
| 8 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 9 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Notors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 10 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 11 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Motors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 12 | The other main part of the plays was the Parabasis , normally split into two parts and accompanied by one or more Scenes and a Chorikon , before a finale often involving a feast or rejuvenation , and leading to a final Exodos . |
| 13 | The proportion of cases among those with missing data was disproportionately higher in the Maori group , leading to a greater odds ratio when compared with the non-Maori children ( univariate odds ratio of those with full data was 3.42 and for those without full data 4.60 ) . |
| 14 | After robotisation the job became less skilled , was machine paced in that the cycle time was dictated by the speed at which the robot did the welding , and the human part of the job was filled by a semi-skilled operator belonging to a general trades union . |
| 15 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 16 | Of ge of getting to a hundred years old ? |
| 17 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 18 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 19 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 20 | Eliminate the temptation to turn to the food cupboard for comfort by reducing to a minimum foods that can harm you : biscuits , cakes , crisps , pies , sweets , chocolate , pizzas and even bread . |