Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [verb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late April 1991 Lee signed a document declaring the end of the " Period of Mobilization for the Suppression of the Communist Rebellion " , which effectively brought to an end more than four decades of " civil war " between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland . |
| 2 | These concepts require self-reflection for their meaning to be grasped , which necessarily leads to an ontology privileging the individual as a knowing subject . |
| 3 | Any possibility of this , he concluded , was ruled out by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 which finally brought to an end the provisions of the Navigation Acts , ( already repealed in other respects in 1849 ) that all seamen on coasting vessels , and three-quarters of crews on ships in foreign trade , were to be British . |
| 4 | ‘ It is submitted : ( i ) the judge erred in law in his ruling on count 1 ; ( ii ) for an offence to be committed under section 1(1) of the Act there does not have to be the use by the offender of one computer with intent to secure unauthorised access into another computer ; ( iii ) there is no ambiguity in the wording of section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act which clearly refers to an intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( iv ) section 17(2) and ( 3 ) are applicable to the alleged actions of the respondent in this case ; ( v ) the Act has been drafted so as to deal with the person who misuses a computer to which he has direct ( but unauthorised ) access , as well as a computer into which he is able to secure indirect access by operating another computer . ’ |
| 5 | A ‘ backwards ’ proton is in fact nothing more than an antiproton : what the experimenters at CERN look for is a proton ( rather than a neutron ) meeting an antiproton to produce a W particle which then decays to an electron and a neutrino . |
| 6 | Neither do British Standard ( BS ) figures , which again relate to an engine without power-sapping auxiliaries fitted . |