Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plea of guilty to stealing the lorry and trailer was refused by the Advocate Depute , Roderick Macdonald . |
| 2 | This chapter is about determining the norms of usage that characterize real speech communities and about the relevance of this to determining the direction of change within the communities . |
| 3 | This is explicable , at least in part , by a shift from horizontal to diversifying mergers . |
| 4 | Image — an every present ingredient to the alchemy of pop — was now reflecting Kylie 's transformation from naïve to knowing superstar . |
| 5 | We have made a sound start in 1990 to achieving the degree of co-operation and mutual aid that we know the Government and Public expect to see more in evidence throughout this decade . |
| 6 | BP Nutrition will give priority in 1993 to achieving further improvements in its performance . |
| 7 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 8 | I felt a thump on my back and an instant later found myself propelled along the winding lane at close to racing speed , courtesy of Steve , fourth member of the Peugeot team out for a training run . |
| 9 | As most recorded cases of this antedate the main period of enclosures in the mid fifteenth century , it is not clear if the conversion of land from arable to grazing in the period of population decline contributed to this . |
| 10 | Unaided by technology ( but possibly assisted by an abundance of cheap labour and a convenient absence of red tape ) the Mark II establishment was up and running in a quarter of the time it has taken the current version to proceed from the stage of the second catastrophic fire in 1980 to opening its doors . |
| 11 | It occurred to him forcibly that he would have no objection at all to extending this romantic episode further . |
| 12 | ‘ Hartlepool is always the same and I 'd have no objection at all to doing that . |