Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 2 | The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch . |
| 3 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 4 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 5 | The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex . |
| 6 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 7 | However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders . |
| 8 | The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included . |
| 9 | Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 . |
| 10 | That section of the middle class which includes shopkeepers , foremen , and the small and self-employed businessmen — the petit bourgeois — has turned strongly to the party since she became leader . |
| 11 | ‘ This is only the second time Derry has got through to the final in 35 years , so tickets this year are like gold dust , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 13 | has sold out to the money men . |
| 14 | And to say that they have ‘ been the eyes and ears of Delhi ’ is insulting to a community that has contributed enormously to the progress and fostering of secular values among Kashmiri people . |
| 15 | Recently television has contributed dramatically to the rejuvenation of particular sports , most notably darts and snooker . |
| 16 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 17 | By studying one thinker who has contributed much to the development of a certain type of political thought we might , as a result , avoid the problem of simply re-creating mythologies . |
| 18 | THIS public fear has contributed much to the infiltration of fake hijras into the community of true eunuchs . |
| 19 | You say that he has contributed materially to the progress of your investigation . |
| 20 | Enjoying his retirement years in the sub-tropical warmth of south east Queensland , Australia , far from his English roots , is a man who has contributed greatly to the success of rotary wing development in Britain . |
| 21 | Their impact on the industry has contributed greatly to the regard in which the Department of Hospitality Management is held . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society . |
| 23 | Finally , the Bail Act has signally failed to avert an explosion in the remand population , which in turn has contributed substantially to the prison numbers crisis . |
| 24 | He joined the Gwili Railway shortly after I did and on the very same day as my cousin Paul Lucas , but since then Roger has contributed more to the railway than either of us . |
| 25 | The situation in Powys reflects that in Wales as a whole and has contributed especially to the threat to upland broadleaved woodlands but also to the losses of heather moor , rough grassland and to the degradation of species-rich pastures . |
| 26 | In fact the sequence of events was much more complex than that , although , as discussed earlier , many former patients were discharged to inadequate accommodation without aftercare , and progressive reduction of psychiatric beds over the past thirty years has contributed significantly to the problem . |
| 27 | With regard to traditional conflicts of interest , which are also liable to be efficiency-reducing , there is little reason to think that the separation of ownership and control has contributed significantly to the scope for management self-dealing , but it does pose problems for the effectiveness of the mechanisms that regulate it , the design of which is premised on shareholder involvement . |
| 28 | This group has contributed significantly to the improvement in OTIF . |
| 29 | Since the opening of a new library in 1988 , the Old Library has become home to the Craft Centre Shop , an impressive art gallery with varying exhibitions , and to Charles Bird 's Museum of Magical Machines — a fascinating spectacle for children of all ages . |
| 30 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |