Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the problem , certainly , was the slow and inadequate response of the central authorities and of Gorbachev personally to a deepening crisis . |
| 2 | An unusually cold winter in 1916/17 brought the city of Paris almost to a halt . |
| 3 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |
| 4 | The brutal ejection of Gandhi on to a station platform in South Africa has been made famous by Sir Richard Attenborough 's film . |
| 5 | By October we find Smolensk party officials annulling a delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye still being demanded by one local authority ( some taxes in kind had been reduced from March onwards to a single uniform tax calculated in terms of rye ) . |
| 6 | APOTTERY horse ( left ) made in China in the eighth century was sold at Sotheby 's in London yesterday to a Japanese dealer for a £3.7million , a world auction record for any Chinese artefact , writes Donald Wintersgill . |
| 7 | On 15 May 1990 a facility letter was issued by the bank to I.B.C. up to a maximum sum of £2m . |
| 8 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |