Example sentences of "to [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day , it just goes to show that there are many different approaches to simulating various aspects of football . |
| 2 | But this is n't getting us any closer to simulating natural selection . |
| 3 | The Wimbledon finalist hurled his shirt to cheering Croatian fans after reaching the semi-finals with a 6-7 , 6-7 , 6-4 , 6-4 , 8-6 win over Frenchman Fabrice Santoro . |
| 4 | We began to pick up speed in our responses to unfolding human rights crises . |
| 5 | Subsequent chapters are devoted to mastering various techniques and manoeuvres . |
| 6 | In 1796 , Carey had begun to learn Sanskrit , the key to mastering many other Asian languages . |
| 7 | A good part of the time you spend airborne is devoted to mastering that seemingly magic characteristic . |
| 8 | You will be examined in Perth , with a view to preferring formal charges . |
| 9 | It is not , however , a fully comprehensive guide to nursing orthopaedic patients , as the psychosocial aspects of care are only briefly addressed . |
| 10 | He 's top of the A&R man 's list when it comes to nursing young guitar bands through their first , tentative studio steps . |
| 11 | He was , Gibson informed , coming to have a look " at a quarry of slate with a view to farming that part of the Royalty . " |
| 12 | Indeed , if anything , there had been a decline in the number of obstacles to building new houses . |
| 13 | Unless adequate attention is paid to building robust institutions that promote internal competition and offset the lack of commercial experience or knowledge in the political system , privatisation will merely transfer privilege and feather-bedding from one group to another . |
| 14 | For semiconductor makers not already committed to building 16-megabit production lines , the case for going straight for the 64-megabit device looks increasingly attractive . |
| 15 | ‘ Nuclear Electric should keep the money for the purpose it is intended , not divert it to building another uneconomic , unsafe and unwanted power station , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Why had he never got round to building another sonic screwdriver ? |
| 17 | The record industry 's response to this situation was not particularly systematic but by now some trends are obvious : the average age of the pop market ( and especially the pop single-buying market ) is younger than it was ; record companies devote more attention to building big mainstream stars than to servicing a variety of musical tastes ; stars are now conceived and sold as multi-media performers ; there has been a steady decline in the significance of live music making except as a promotional device . |
| 18 | It was to building this basis that Lazarsfeld and his colleagues devoted much of their energies . |
| 19 | DASA reckons Airbus is best suited to building large airliners , not small ones . |
| 20 | In the end the speaker of Homage to Sextus Propertius wins through to articulating that common plight as memorably as Williams 's speaker does — with , as Bunting says , ‘ extraordinary directness … quite naked ’ . |
| 21 | In such ontological circumstances this allegedly public service must be singularly unsuited to objective assessment of any external demands for a reduction in its power or to encompassing any critical analysis which might cause loss of prestige . |
| 22 | They should not be discharged immediately they reach their target weights , but should become accustomed to eating normal meals rather than the high-energy diet necessary for weight gain . |
| 23 | the report also looks at the health risks linked to eating excess sugar , notably sucrose and sugar-based sweeteners . ’ |
| 24 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 25 | People vary considerably as to how much gas or wind they produce in response to eating different types of foods . |
| 26 | It can reach a size of 200mm and although not usually aggressive towards other fish , it is not averse to eating any small fish it may come across during its night time forays . |
| 27 | It is not averse to eating any small fish it may come across during its night time forays . |
| 28 | To be precise , there was an average delay of 66 seconds from eating a visible grain to eating a camouflaged one , but a delay of only 6.7 seconds from eating one camouflaged grain to eating another camouflaged one . |
| 29 | My mother said it was due to eating imported meat , particularly Argentinian . |
| 30 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |