Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text goes on to refer to a general trust clause providing that the heir should pay the legacies and carry out the instructions in the will . |
| 2 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 3 | The student will not feel a sense of guilt if she sits down to talk to an anxious patient . |
| 4 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 5 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 6 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
| 7 | Toxic-shock syndrome reached a peak in 1980 but has since declined to a stable level of about 25 a month . |
| 8 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 9 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
| 10 | It should be noted that the existence of a published league table has not led to an automatic and immediate improvement in schools at the bottom of the table . |
| 11 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 12 | The answer seems to lie in facing up to the fact that one particular cycle or era has finally come to a close and therefore both personally and professionally it would be wiser to channel your energies into something new . |
| 13 | The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton , Derbyshire . |
| 14 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 15 | ANOTHER rugby season has just drawn to a close and many followers of the game in Ulster are asking questions about the future . |
| 16 | Monotype has already agreed to a 150p-a-share offer made by the US-based Pointplus . |
| 17 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 18 | A western management consultancy reports that one of its employees has already defected to a Hungarian company . |
| 19 | Erm , I am not aware , as I say , I 'm not aware that anybody in Tarmac has ever switched to a one , but I , I 'm , which I find quite remarkable , erm , but you can do it if you , if you feel the need to . |
| 20 | It seems more reasonable to anticipate a response to a formal written instrument , especially one which may have adverse consequences on a third State , and thus to regard lack of response as acceptance of that agreement , than it is to demand early protest to an emergent rule of customary international law . |
| 21 | The ombudsman claims that the jurisdiction and duty to investigate conferred and imposed on him by the scheme enables and requires him to investigate and determine complaints in relation to valuations made by employees of a building society of properties to be charged to the building society to secure further advances to an existing borrower from that society . |
| 22 | Clough has always marched to a different tune , but this time his perversity may finally be his undoing . |
| 23 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 24 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 25 | The agreement that bodies such as The Scottish Roads Directorate should fund the archaeological work required by their developments has also led to a closer liaison on survey and excavation . |
| 26 | The project has also led to a small midwifery team being established at Wythenshawe Hospital to care for deaf parents . |
| 27 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |
| 28 | A similar thing has also happened to a smaller Oranda , but not severely . |
| 29 | However , it has inevitably led to a fundamental alteration in the relationship between the government and the Welsh LEAs . |
| 30 | The row over the 4p increase has now led to a public inquiry . |