Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith . |
| 2 | When we focus on differences between Japan and the West it has been common to paint pictures based to a large extent on our general impression of how relations at work offer such sharply contrasting attitudes to work . |
| 3 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 4 | Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region . |
| 5 | Masters champion Couples coasted to a 66 while Love , the US No 2 , chipped in with a 68 for the Americans to set the first round pace with a combined 10 under par total of 134 . |
| 6 | ‘ Secondary data also provide information relating to a wide variety of different aspects of international operations . |
| 7 | At Key Stage 2 it is important to begin to relate artefacts studied to a wider social context . |
| 8 | The best sorted sediments approximate to a single size and have low σ 1 , values ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 9 | an evaluation of two kinds of training in writing skills given to a smaller group of postgraduates . |
| 10 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 11 | To mix , slowly add powder to clean water stirring to a smooth paste stiff enough to spread without running ; a stiffer consistency will be difficult to apply , whilst too thin a mix will impair the bonding properties of the adhesive . |
| 12 | Any longer than an absolute maximum of six , he argued , would run the risk of not being able to recapture viewers lost to an unpopular first episode . |
| 13 | UBS P & D plans a series of roadshows in Europe to present the proposals to Heron 's many thousands of bondholders who have seen bonds slashed to a third of their face value . |
| 14 | Gedge explained its meaning to Splutter fanzine : ‘ It concerns itself with those factors which cause men to conform to a particular form of sexual stereotyping . |
| 15 | Thus , there are parish boundaries defining land attached to a particular church ; more recently , civil parishes , which in many cases only vaguely now relate to religious parishes , have been defined for administrative purposes . |
| 16 | It was learnt yesterday county councillors have already considered ending a schools cleaning contract awarded to a private firm hired to look after Middlesbrough schools after the it notched up 22 default notices between last August and May 1 . |
| 17 | He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’ |
| 18 | A add B comes to a hundred and one . |
| 19 | But in paying fares amounting to a tenth of that , we incur — and do implicitly accept — a low level of risk . |
| 20 | Recordings of different people talking give learners access to a wider range of voices and accents . |
| 21 | Last year 's event had to be cancelled due to problems with the course , forcing organisers to switch to a new two-lap route mainly off the road . |
| 22 | By controlling the value held in the index register , we can make the add instruction refer to a different element each time it is executed . |
| 23 | To the right , a partially opened door led to a connecting office . |
| 24 | Defective tiled roofs can produce problems identical to those posed by ageing slate roofs , but because clay plain tiles are necessarily hung on battens ( not every tile is nailed except on very steeply pitched roofs ) and it is not possible simply to apply tiles direct to a boarded surface as in the case of a slate covering , the problem of rotting roofing battens and sarking does not arise in connection with tiling . |
| 25 | And we often do regimental courses for catering officers going to an out-of-the-way place where there may not be a trained caterer . |
| 26 | The aim , of course , is to delegate decision making to a trusted and close friend or relative who the patient feels best knows him and will speak for him when he can not speak for himself . |
| 27 | A dimly lit gully beckons to a short easy solo and a luminous dawn over a deserted plateau : the light of Aviemore far away . |
| 28 | Attempts to resolve differences met with little success when Latin American regional heads of state gathered in San Jose , Costa Rica , in October and sought to persuade Brazil to agree to a new price-support scheme based on a reduction of its 30 per cent quota allocation in return for a similar agreement by Colombia to cut exports . |
| 29 | One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP . |
| 30 | There are often substantive reasons for expecting proportions to respond to an explanatory variable in something resembling this flat S shape . |