Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a cubic curve is added to a parabola the resultant curve will depend upon which order is higher , odd or even . |
| 2 | When variables were added to a model the change in deviance follows an approximate χ 2 distribution with degrees of freedom ( df ) equal to the number of additional parameters fitted . |
| 3 | Was you getting funny cos I ai n't come to a party every week ? |
| 4 | Once facilities are transferred to a Trust the ability of local communities to influence decision making virtually disappears . |
| 5 | If the firm 's … are connected to a computer the of stock levels is adjusted automatically . |
| 6 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 7 | In one of these , Agdistis , a hermaphrodite , born of the seed of Zeus and Mother Earth , is castrated by having the male genitals torn off through being tied to a tree a not exactly common method , the reader will agree . |
| 8 | What matters is that economic advances in some regions offset to a degree the general pressure on real wages of the rising population . |
| 9 | The shootings brought to a climax the long-standing complaints by opposition groups in Serbia that the Milosevic government had embarked on a course of confrontation not only with non-communists but also , more ominously , with other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | In this way , the model can be brought to a halt a short distance from the ground with all of the blade energy and pitch range still available to make the landing . |
| 11 | The onset of drought in the 1970s simply compounded and brought to a head a situation that was almost inevitable from its inception , the root of which was fuelled by European interests to counteract competition from soya bean imports from the USA . |
| 12 | The recent departure of manager Liam Brady has also brought to a head a bitter boardroom battle which threatens to tear the club apart . |
| 13 | The debate on the defence section of the party 's policy review report , Britain in the World , brought to a head the anger felt in sections of the party over Neil Kinnock 's shift away from unilateralism . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Proceedings on the Bill at a sitting of the Standing Committee on the said 5th December may continue until Eight o'clock , whether or not the House is adjourned before that time , and if the House is adjourned before those proceedings have been brought to a conclusion the Standing Committee shall report the Bill to the House on 6th December . |
| 15 | The world was a less " moral " place than it had been before the war : Germany and Japan had brought to a crisis the sickness which infected civilization , but their collapse had not cured it but left it raging everywhere . " |
| 16 | The English Cup and league champions brought to an end a 33-match unbeaten home run by Neath , dating back to Pontypool 's visit on 8 March , 1988 , and recorded their first win over Neath since 1983 . |
| 17 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 18 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 19 | The incident brought to an end a month-long period of peace in Kashmir , and dashed hopes of a reduction in the border tension . |
| 20 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 21 | This decision brought to an end a hunger strike which several city councillors had been observing since the police force had been taken out of the city 's control . |
| 22 | His murder brought to an end a political dynasty stretching back through his mother Indira Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru , Indira 's father and India 's first Prime Minister . |
| 23 | The visit brought to an end a period of tension in Franco-Lebanese relations , and Mitterrand accepted an invitation to visit Beirut . |
| 24 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 25 | The accident brought to an end a promising army career which began in December 1986 when he was 17 . |
| 26 | The publication on Aug. 1 of drafts of three variants of the electoral bill had brought to an end an opposition blockade of Georgia 's main rail link with the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | The move brought to an end an intense struggle between Wilson and the Democrat-controlled state legislature over how to deal with the state 's $10,700 million budget deficit . |
| 28 | By the mid-1970s the ‘ bulge ’ had nearly worked its way through the system , and this , together with disillusion with innovation in education , brought to an end the role of the education service as an expenditure growth-leader among the public services . |
| 29 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 30 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |