Example sentences of "[vb past] to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to an independent helicopter operator in Dubai and had cause to visit Egypt to inspect some Bell 212s for sale . |
| 2 | For instance , a work of scholarship devoted to an esoteric subject will sell for a significantly higher price than a novel of approximately the same length and format by a popular writer . |
| 3 | Trevelyan was clearly excited by the prospect of a new Palace of Whitehall , as not only was a large part of his evidence to the Committee devoted to an eloquent description of a monumental scheme he envisaged , but he also produced another scheme for the area in 1866 . |
| 4 | Inflation for the system as a whole , which had fallen to 4 per cent a year in the first half of 1972 , rose to an annual rate of 7 per cent in the first half of 1973 . |
| 5 | But world inflation rose to an annual rate of 10 per cent in the second half of the year as previous materials price rises fed through to final goods markets . |
| 6 | Wall Street rose to an all-time high but ended the week 1.9% down as hopes of a cut in American interest rates faded . |
| 7 | THE influence of Britain on the European Community sank to an all-time low in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 8 | ENGLAND 'S young starlets sank to an all-time low last night when they suffered a humiliating European Under-21 Championship defeat . |
| 9 | My opening line , shouted to an imaginary stage-hand in the wings , was supposed to be : ‘ Will you switch these fans off , please ? |
| 10 | Over the past decade , the care of that group has been privatised : the hon. Member for Macclesfield illustrated the process very clearly when he referred to an excellent nursing home in his constituency , a fairly large institution containing trained nurses . |
| 11 | He referred to an Old Testament story in which King David , regarded by the Jews as their greatest king , had broken the law when it was necessary to feed his retreating and hungry troops . |
| 12 | He referred to an old paper that is regularly recycled by one of the unions . |
| 13 | When bees trained to an artificial feeder in Paris were flown to New York , they kept to their established meal times . |
| 14 | The EC Arbitration Commission had recommended also recognizing Macedonian independence , but Greece objected to an independent state under that name [ see p. 38734 ] , and had insisted on the inclusion of a clause in the EC criteria for recognition stating that republics should renounce " the use of a denomination which implies territorial claims " . |
| 15 | He was very kind and it was a very different interview with Cizek compared to an English Professor such as Seaby , who might nod or grunt , but rarely say what he thought , either remarks favourable or unfavourable . |
| 16 | Two excellent goals from Steve Aries added to an early strike from Liam Herbert to put Town back on the winning trail . |
| 17 | The acid is in complex with fatty-acid free bovine serum albumin and human low-density lipoprotein , added to an enriched mixture of standard cell media . |
| 18 | Anne was never miserable for long , and the visit to Kathleen , added to an apparent halt in her mother 's disease and long loving letters from John , soon made her feel happy again . |
| 19 | June alluded to an unhappy affair with a boy back in Kenya , plainly giving me a message . |
| 20 | A BUS trip came to an unscheduled stop yesterday … as the driver was B-tested . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the DUC also realized that the mining had to be prevented by preventing prospecting and not waiting to begin opposition with the planning applications for the mining itself : ‘ We always felt that if it came to an actual application for mining that we would lose . |
| 22 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 23 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |
| 24 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 25 | In his own attempt to ‘ map ’ the origins of life onto the individual psyche , Freud came to an unsettling conclusion . |
| 26 | My superior self came to an immediate decision . |
| 27 | Unix Labs ' lawyers claim that the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not . |
| 28 | USL claims the judge came to an incorrect conclusion of law based on an incorrect understanding of the facts over whether 32V Unix should have carried a copyright notice or not . |
| 29 | Vitor supplied , when she came to an awkward halt . |
| 30 | Forty to fifty lean tough dockers who were milling around the hut chatting and laughing , came to an expectant hush at his command . |