Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 2 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 3 | Written in a very attractive style this little publication is the ideal vehicle to while away a quiet few minutes and , at the same time , does something practical to help with the preservation of steam . |
| 4 | 14.2.5 Entitlement to expenses also a matter of contract |
| 5 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 6 | Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word . |
| 7 | Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car . |
| 8 | The progression is familiar enough , and it adds another modern dimension to Middle-earth-or rather a timeless one , for though in the modern age we give Saruman a modern ‘ applicability ’ , his name , and the evident uncertainty even in Anglo-Saxon times over mechanical cleverness and ‘ machinations ’ , shows that his meaning was ancient too . |
| 9 | In 1155 , the customs confirmed by Louis VII for Lorris on the royal demesne established that no parishioner should have to pay taxes on food intended for his own consumption or on grain grown by his own labour ; he should be exempt from tolls when he took his produce to the neighbouring towns of Etampes , Orléans , Milly , or Melun ; if required for a chevauchée , he must be allowed to return home at the end of the day ; the only labour service he owed his lord was in carrying seigneurial wine to Orléans twice a year ; and the burgesses of Lorris as a whole were exempted from seigneurial tailles . |
| 10 | Constance had n't seen her mother since her last visit to England over a year ago . |