Example sentences of "to [noun] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is , of course , the Caucasus , a landscape jewel in the crown of the USSR , until recently little known to Westerners other than a few privileged mountaineers lucky enough to be invited to climb there . |
| 2 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 3 | Unfortunately , it is uncertain whether he was writing during Emma 's marriage to Cnut or that to Æthelred , but these tales hint that one or both suggested to Richard II that a claim to England was worth recording , and that he wanted to keep his options open . |
| 4 | I came to England 3 and a half months ago and this is my happiest day since then . |
| 5 | to rugby next and a banana skin called Bath Rugby Club sent Gloucester tumbling to their first league defeat of the season on Saturday … the score twenty nine … nine |
| 6 | Over the year , despite a fall in gross mortgage lending from £9.1 billion to £8.3 billion and a drop in net lending from £3.9 billion to £3.3 billion , the Halifax increased its share of the mortgage market to 18 per cent . |
| 7 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 8 | At the interim stage , Pilkington turned in pre-tax profits up 6per cent to £147 million and a 10per cent increase in the dividend to 2.93p a share . |
| 9 | At the interim stage , Pilkington turned in pre-tax profits up 6per cent to £147 million and a 10per cent increase in the dividend to 2.93p a share . |
| 10 | the absence of any bereavement payment of £3,500 to persons other than a spouse or parent who has lost a child under 18 . |
| 11 | Here a pair of 1850 card tables are for sale at up to Pounds 10,000 and a Louis XVI-style suite , £5,000 . |
| 12 | The group 's turnover rose from £8.1 million to £9.66 million and a final dividend of 9p a share was declared . |
| 13 | The group 's turnover rose from £8.1 million to £9.66 million and a final dividend of 9p a share was declared . |
| 14 | And if you have n't yet found the right hairdresser for you , just turn to page 93 and a fantastic invitation from Wella . |
| 15 | The 1990 budget presented on Jan. 1 , 1990 , announced an increase of 8 per cent in government expenditure to US$4,600 million , coupled with a predicted 18.5 per cent growth in revenues to $3,771 million and a lower projected budget deficit of $826.3 million . |
| 16 | Operating profit at £3.1m , was 71% of that earned in the previous year ( £4.3m ) Although any reduction in profits is regrettable , the drop was limited to 29% such that a return on sales of 7.2% was achieved , a margin which compares favourably with others in our sector . ’ |
| 17 | Its characteristic musculature is strongly marked in crossbred offspring , especially from the age of six weeks , and it is also a colour-marking breed : reds and blacks are diluted to salmon pink and a ‘ creamy soot ’ ( pale coffee to agouti ) while whites are often diluted to off-white , but the coat pattern of the dam is often transmitted and a white dorsal stripe is dominant , though ghostly . |
| 18 | Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles . |
| 19 | On March 31 Hans Modrow , chair of the East German Council of Ministers from November 1989 to April 1990 and a former head of the communist Socialist Unity Party ( SED ) in Dresden , was charged in Dresden with electoral fraud in the May 1989 local elections [ see also pp. 38782 ; 37827 ] . |
| 20 | A small group er from my own parish went to India two and a half years ago to visit our missionary partner . |