Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 2 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 3 | Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold . |
| 4 | This leads him to a much wider generalization that the course of history , over space as well as time , is closely linked to the anthropological map . |
| 5 | This leads us to a discussion of the concept of ‘ information management ’ . |
| 6 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 7 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 8 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 9 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 10 | This takes you to a very similar dialog box to the one for a new presentation except that it lacks the button for selecting a presentation style . |
| 11 | Sinatra went through the worst period of his career when Universal signed him to a contract , put him in a disaster — Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) — and then dropped him . |
| 12 | Another twenty minutes of this reduces me to a disorientated wreck , near to tears and vomiting . |
| 13 | Some ascribed it to a plot by ‘ the men in grey suits ’ ( a catch-phrase often used to describe a fairly ill-defined set of senior party officials , government business managers and elder statesmen ) . |
| 14 | For instance , if one says to them , you at least have the advantage of speaking Russian and this entitles you to a certain authority in the area of Eastern European art , one seldom gets the reply : yes , that is our speciality , a contribution we could make . |
| 15 | It 's a measure of the esteem in which Altman is held that many of the close to 70 stars who appear were willing to commit themselves to a project which so ruthlessly satirizes their very existence . |
| 16 | Er and thi this lead us to a list of things to do . |
| 17 | This brings you to a barn . |
| 18 | Independence of course demands economic means : and this brings us to a last and equally basic issue . |
| 19 | This brings us to a second set of determinants of transmission teaching — those rooted in the situational constraints of the classroom . |
| 20 | This brings us to a consideration of whether these programmes are capable of suggesting appropriate remedies . |
| 21 | If you had £100 000 of savings , would you be prepared to lend it to a friend to buy a house if the friend was going to take 25 years to pay it back ? |
| 22 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 23 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 24 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 25 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 26 | These adapted themselves to a life in and out of work since they had a strong street culture with which to identify . |
| 27 | Mr. Newman also sought to invoke section 11(3) of the Act of 1989 , which confers upon the High Court jurisdiction to order a person 's discharge if , having regard to certain matters specified in the subsection , it would be unjust or oppressive to return him to a foreign state . |
| 28 | The evidence of Table 8.5 lends itself to a policy of a constant real dividend . |
| 29 | So adding this extra twenty hectares identified within Ryedale , that takes us to a hundred and thirty nine hectares for Greater York . |
| 30 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |