Example sentences of "to [indef pn] [conj] [art] " 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 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 4 | By the time the summer was over , the predictions that Syria was about to release all the hostages had come to nothing and the issue was dead again . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | A small amount of local capital was generated by the spending power of the garrison , and by the French decision to extend and modernise the city 's walls and defences , but this was all brought to nothing when the British Navy caused incredible damage by bombarding the city with Congreve Rockets . |
| 7 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 8 | But the idea came to nothing because the British would not cooperate . |
| 9 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 10 | And Bridhe and Seumas Ban would make it plain to everyone that the new mistress had their approval . |
| 11 | It had quickly become clear to everyone that the new concept ( the ‘ Teller-Ulam configuration ’ ) was likely to prove successful . |
| 12 | It became obvious to everyone that the Tournament could not continue and after another undue delay , the Earl of Eglinton announced that it was cancelled for the day . |
| 13 | McCauley added : ‘ I want to make it clear to everyone that the club is not in financial difficulties . ’ |
| 14 | It must , indeed , have been clear to everyone that the claims of Canterbury could only be successful if they had the support of the king and the English bishops . |
| 15 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 16 | It was soon apparent to everyone that the two dogs were fretting . |
| 17 | Alcock and Brown climbed into the cockpit , waved goodbye , to everyone and the Vimy set off . |
| 18 | In the meantime , Henley had become a successful club recognised everywhere as one of the friendliest — where a chap can be assured of a game at weekends by simply turning up looking for one ; a Club with a pretty , well kept , interesting course ; a 19th hole where there is good refreshment and some comfortable chairs ; an excellent Professional 's shop and a social and golfing calendar second to none and the envy of most . |
| 19 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I leave my first category , therefore , and come to one where the prognosis is less gloomy . |
| 23 | The hard look doctrine therefore represents a shift from a previously more minimal standard of review , where judicial intervention would occur only if there was irrationality , to one where the courts will interfere where the broader list of defects set out above are present . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Whether , however , privilege does extend to everything that a Member does as a Member is doubtful . |
| 26 | This was an act of the most palpable commonsense , for John Reith , the Manager , was willing to give the cloak of independence to everything that the Government wanted . |
| 27 | Plainly you can not apply that view to everything or the whole of your business is in a continuous state of stop/go , or like the good old Duke of York 's troops , marching up and down the same hill with monotonous regularity . |
| 28 | It 's very clear to anybody that the system is cracking . ’ |
| 29 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 30 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |