Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
2 | From the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the educated élite became exposed to a heady concoction of western romantic , Idealist , and socialist ideas . |
3 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
4 | ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious . |
5 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
6 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
7 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
8 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
9 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
10 | I do n't think so she 's erm slow , she 's , she 's like erm , she has to go to a special school |
11 | From these studies we 've developed criteria to identify who needs to go to a coronary care unit and who does n't . |
12 | Harris argues , however , that a van like a Transit has to appeal to a wide cross-section of operators , and that means the design has to be a compromise . |
13 | Most European private placements belong to one of two categories : securities designed to appeal to a small group of investors , and those tailored to suit a particular issuer . |
14 | It was to be politically left , but above all popular , and designed to appeal to a big readership . |
15 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
16 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
17 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
18 | The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes . |
19 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
20 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
21 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
22 | Now that the group has come to a better understanding about some aspect of these problems , how can they feel Empowered to act for change ? |
23 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
24 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
25 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
26 | Faced with such a question the theorist has to repair to a mental laboratory where he conducts thought experiments . |
27 | If , to be a successful physicist , one has to conform to a certain code of behaviour , what are the implications for women who , by definition , do not conform to our conventional ideal of ‘ physicist ’ ? |
28 | It can first be grown in an immersed flower-pot in a smaller tank , and then , once the plant has grown to a substantial height , it should be sunken in the main tank . |
29 | The response of airports and airlines to the Channel Tunnel has been coloured by the impending deregulation of air transport in Europe which is expected to lead to a substantial fall in fares and a rise in business over the next few years . |
30 | Discussions with ( Educational Advisor ) are expected to lead to a new support network for LCCIEB centres . |