Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 2 | the lights dim to nothing while the sound of fighting continues . |
| 3 | Does the Minister agree that no matter what progress is made in energy efficiency — in Wales or in the west country , for example — it could all come to nothing if the Government press ahead and force British Gas to start up a new company for the transportation of gas through its pipelines ? |
| 4 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |
| 5 | Lord Denning M.R. stated that the court could intervene if the Minister acted on no evidence , or reached a decision to which on the evidence he could not reasonably have come , equating the case to one where a court interfered with a decision of a tribunal which had erred in law . |
| 6 | I leave my first category , therefore , and come to one where the prognosis is less gloomy . |
| 7 | During training what we do in the training algorithm is is of course set a a link here or a weight here to one if the output of my decoder is set to one . |
| 8 | The presence of the two bishops , not to mention the priests and nuns , gave confidence to everybody as the plane rose into the air . |
| 9 | The idea that anything can last for ever is nonsense , and if that 's what happens with Kiss , then fair enough ; if it does n't mean anything more to anyone than the time the band was functioning then that 's also perfectly fine with me . ’ |