Example sentences of "[noun] to a [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly a major problem in controlling corporate crime is raising victim and public consciousness to a level where the community desires and supports a policy of more active and effective state control and regulation . |
| 2 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 3 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 4 | The ascent is usually made from the charming village of Hartley , near Kirkby Stephen , where a rising road passing the huge Hartley Quarry is available for cars to a point where a cart track branches off and heads into the hills . |
| 5 | In the course of the arguments before us it was suggested that a construction of section 8 of the Act of 1969 which denies a 16- or 17-year-old girl an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , but leaves it open to her parents to consent to such treatment , could in theory lead to a case where a pregnant 16-year-old refuses an abortion , but her parents consent to her pregnancy being terminated . |
| 6 | A leading commentator on the criminal law , Professor J. C. Smith , has drawn attention to a situation where a farmer shoots dead an alsatian dog . |
| 7 | It is our wish , as ever , to build better relationships with these agencies , and develop levels of mutual confidence to a point where the flow of information would be much greater than it has been . |
| 8 | They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them . |
| 9 | While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance . |
| 10 | If there is no loop on your amp , you 'll find that passing a guitar signal through a bunch of effects and into the amp 's input degrades the true signal to a point where the preamp struggles to compensate for it . |
| 11 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 12 | The presence of the weak interaction as well as the electromagnetic interaction in this process gives rise to an asymmetry whereby an experiment should detect more positive muons in the forward hemisphere ( as defined by the direction of the electron ) than in the backward hemisphere . |
| 13 | Revealing her inmost secret , Ayesha leads Leo and Holly by a perilous mountain route to a cavern where the Fire of Immortality appears intermittently . |
| 14 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 15 | Thus the transfer of an asset to a charity e.g. a work of art , will not qualify ( although there are other ways for a charity to obtain tax relief on the gift of an asset ) . |
| 16 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 17 | Instead there is smooth convergence to a position where the government 's type is known . |
| 18 | It is capable however , of being correct in its application to a case where the Food Controller had unlawfully demanded and received payment as a condition of allowing any purchase of milk . |
| 19 | [ 8 ] It is classically imagined that there exists direct and reliable neural machinery which detects events in the tissue and transmits the information to a centre where the sensation of pain is generated . |
| 20 | Despite all the detailed criteria set out for assessment , despite the emphasis on course-work , in the end ‘ high ’ GCSE will be familiar enough , and the transition to A level not a matter of genuine difficulty . |
| 21 | Where the roots stick out the bank gives way to a hollow where the buffaloes are tethered during the day . |
| 22 | In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending . |
| 23 | Some items were common : several people had copies of the 1946 agreement between shaikhs , and its grandiose pretensions to a territory nearly the size of France . |
| 24 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 25 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 26 | The motor will therefore drive the output shaft to a position where the monostable time period exactly matches that of the input pulse width . |
| 27 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |