Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploration in Middle Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks north of Wadebridge in north Cornwall has located up to 1 g/t Au associated with quartz-arsenopyrite veins ( MRP 103 ) . |
| 2 | Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden . |
| 3 | Blackgrass has built up to such levels in some of its traditional heavyland haunts that some cereal growers are now reporting severe problems in controlling it . |
| 4 | After seven years as secretary in Convocation Office , Mrs. Judith Nelson has moved on to another post within the University . |
| 5 | On trade and other issues , Japan has caved in to outside pressure countless times before , and may do so again . |
| 6 | Is it possible that in 1985 the message has got through to more hearts and minds than ever before ? |
| 7 | Consistent with our view of forecast oil prices , we expect to reduce our exploration expenditure to around £90 million in 1993 and we will benefit from third party expenditures on properties which LASMO has farmed out to major oil companies in Colombia , Pakistan and Yemen . |
| 8 | A swoop by customs officers has netted up to 15 people so far . |
| 9 | On occasions he has walked up to 40 miles in a day . |
| 10 | Mine , at any rate , after the initial angers and resentments , has lingered on to this day , and I think there has never been a rime when I did not remember that love and think of Dana . |
| 11 | ‘ Now that has gone up to five hours on her own . |
| 12 | ‘ Now that has gone up to five hours on her own . |
| 13 | The Essex News to Mrs today if you want to order it , it 's ten copies for pound and Home and County , as you well know , has gone up to ten pounds twenty pence . |
| 14 | However , I believe — perhaps the Minister will confirm this — that , in the last year for which we have the figures , the import of such waste has gone down to 44,000 tonnes , although that is still 10 times higher than in 1981-82 . |
| 15 | But instead of a square heel , or even a radically smoothed-off heel similar to the Revell acoustic we recently reviewed , Andy Manson has gone back to first principles and has ended up virtually doing away with the heel altogether . |
| 16 | Puccini : A celebration Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort , Choir and Players has gone back to medieval sources , and devised a sequence not just of carols in more robust settings than is common but of instrumental pieces like the March of the Kings . |
| 17 | In some cases Dutton has gone back to these originals , and sometimes he has worked on the Griffith tapes . |
| 18 | Les has gone out to Do-it-all B and Q or somewhere like that . |
| 19 | On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day . |
| 20 | A fairly marked spring passage occurs between March and May , when sea-watching has recorded up to 200 birds in one spring . |
| 21 | The machair landforms have been described by Mather and Ritchie ( 1977 ) and Ritchie ( 1979 ) as hilly , hillocky , undulating and plain and they also state that 87 per cent lie below 50 metres and 18 per cent below 10 metres O.D. Gneiss hills with smooth slopes facing the prevailing winds occur in some localities and blown sand has accumulated up to 100 metres on Eoligarry Hill ( Barra ) and to 150 metres on Pabbay ( Sound of Harris ) . |
| 22 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 23 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 24 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 25 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 26 | He must have succeeded since by the end of the next day we 'd moved up to fifth place , and we got our permit to camp for two nights by the Colorado . |
| 27 | Senior market official , David Coleridge , said recently that Lloyd 's had lost out to Commercial Union on a multi-million-pound contract from Trafalgar House because it was unable to offer a ‘ package deal ’ . |
| 28 | Senior market official , David Coleridge , said recently that Lloyd 's had lost out to Commercial Union on a multi-million-pound contract from Trafalgar House because it was unable to offer a ‘ package deal ’ . |
| 29 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 30 | There is also an abiding reluctance to see America getting drawn in to another Vietnam , a bitter and protracted war exacting a huge price in US lives and treasure . |