Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolan Adams 's murder a year ago led to the speedy identification and prosecution of the attackers and the murderer subse-quently received a life sentence . |
| 2 | Among the drawings Oberhuber transfers to Giorgione a group hitherto given to Giulio Campagnola — a logical step which may or may not prove correct . |
| 3 | She sought oblivion , and one tablet a night quickly escalated to two , then three , then a couple in the morning , then four , until eventually she was taking them like sweeties . |
| 4 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 5 | However the only financial commitment a State routinely makes to an organisation is to meet its membership contributions . |
| 6 | Recalling Thatcher fortunes when they were at a low ebb , Baroness Castle of Blackburn , as she now is , reminds us that Margaret Thatcher was at one stage rated the most unpopular Prime Minister in history a tag now attached to John Major . |
| 7 | If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated . |
| 8 | Cos I 'm doing about what , about three hundred fi three hundred fifty miles a week just going to work and back |