Example sentences of "to a [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To a stranger the smell may be more obvious .
2 The screens , which could be available in small quantities in July building to a thousand a month in the fall , may become OEM products .
3 As the broadcast drew to a close a voice proclaimed ‘ a vote cast for any parties which oppose each other is a vote for conflict ’ .
4 The defeat of the motions brought to a close a crisis within the ruling coalition provoked by the ultra-orthodox Shas faction 's threat to leave the government in protest over statements issued by Shulamit Aloni , the Minister for Education .
5 As the decade came to a close the BDDA had one hundred and thirty-nine branches spread across the country — one hundred and eighteen in England , thirteen in Scotland , six in Wales and two in Ireland — and , as we shall see in the next chapter , was poised to make one of the most important decisions of the first century .
6 For the serfs themselves , it brought to a close the degradation of chattel status and opened the way to the rehabilitation of their human dignity .
7 For the Concordat , in theory at least , brought to a close the Investiture Contest of the twelfth century .
8 This brings to a close the examination of contexts in which the to and bare infinitives can be directly opposed in use with full verbs .
9 Philpot 's retirement brought to a close an era in the life of the School .
10 When a stress is applied to a solid the response can not in reality be instantaneous and , in polymers , in particular , elastic " after-effects ' ( to use the phrase of Weber in 1835 ) are found .
11 Delegation of authority occurs in an organisation where a superior gives to a subordinate the discretion to make decisions within a certain sphere of influence .
12 For to a smaller an empire .
13 Disk space will start at 4.2GB , progressing to a half a terabyte and then to a full terabyte next year .
14 In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian .
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