Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] ground [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson said it all when he said ‘ after half a century of democratic advance , the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The debate on poverty has ground to a halt since the new government came into power and TAFOS must get it going again . ’ |
| 3 | The process had ground to a halt by early 1990 [ see p. 37199 ] , largely as a result of Likud 's hesitancy to proceed with a first-stage meeting of Egyptian , Israeli and United States officials without first receiving certain US " guarantees " ( the first-stage meeting was supposed to discuss a second-stage Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Cairo on the proposed elections ) . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that the war had ground to a halt while the commanders-in-chief of both armies languished in their respective prisons , the young sprig confronting him obviously took his guard duty seriously . |
| 5 | Debt has meant that in some parts of Africa development has ground to a halt . |
| 6 | However , he would be a perfect recruit for Arsenal , whose season has ground to a halt since they led the Premier League in early November . |
| 7 | One quarter of the chamber is under suspicion of involvement , local government has ground to a halt in many parts of the country and public works contracts have all but dried up . |
| 8 | I often feel like his mother or his ‘ chum ’ , but I do n't feel like his partner and our sex life has ground to a halt . |
| 9 | Most drug research in that country has ground to a halt , and Canada is now a substantial net importer of medicines . |
| 10 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 11 | And while the house market has ground to a halt , you 'll have to move quickly if you want to become a pub landlord . |