Example sentences of "[verb] to a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd like to write to a young lady of fifteen plus , over 5ft , not fussy about looks but please send photo . ’ |
| 3 | Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oögenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon . |
| 4 | After 27 years at Sywell Airport , the Barnstormers Flying Circus have packed their tent and moved to a new home at Spanhoe Airfield , near RAF Wittering in the north of Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 6 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 7 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 8 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
| 9 | They left the house in Chertsey and moved to a quiet cottage in the country , taking Oliver with them . |
| 10 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
| 11 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 12 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 13 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
| 14 | ‘ When Agnes disappeared , ’ replied Monks , ‘ her father changed his name and moved to a lonely place in Wales , where no one would know about the family shame . |
| 15 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 16 | This was , however , only the most obvious of a number of complex social , economic and political pressures , which contributed to a gradual change in the climate that surrounds most public institutions in the western world . |
| 17 | They also contributed to a growing consciousness of the value of collectivism and of alliances among sections of the lesbian and gay trade movement . |
| 18 | Sails are kept ready rigged , ready for action , and all rigs are interchangeable with all boards — an unrivalled opportunity to try to a wide range of sails with a wide range of boards . |
| 19 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 20 | It is as if between 1927 and 1934 a party unequivocally committed to a sectarian strategy on the political front nevertheless consciously chose to hedge its bets on the cultural front . |
| 21 | Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ . |
| 22 | The Labour party is not committed to any specific increase in health service expenditure , but it is committed to a specific cut in the proportion of NHS expenditure used for patient care . |
| 23 | He was committed to a private asylum in Leicester , where he remained until his death in 1799 . |
| 24 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 25 | Responding to criticism from neighbouring countries , including Russia , the Chinese authorities said that they had always exercised restraint in nuclear testing and that China was still committed to a complete ban on nuclear testing within the framework of effective nuclear disarmament . |
| 26 | Several top managers are unhappy that England are committed to a three-match tournament in the United States this summer . |
| 27 | The ASEAN states are committed to a limited neutralisation of Kampuchea . |
| 28 | A government committed to a sustained reduction in the growth of the money supply over a number of years will find this very difficult unless it restricts the size of the public-sector deficit . |
| 29 | It is because of the concern expressed by my hon. Friend and others that the Government are committed to a further increase in the use of the ’ lane rental ’ method of procurement of motorway repairs . |
| 30 | Communism is committed to a large number of goals , but for our purpose three stand out : the abolition of private property , the abolition of the family and the abolition of religion . |