Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 3 | When demand and supply are in stable equilibrium , if any accident should move the scale of production from its equilibrium position , there will be instantly brought into play forces tending to push it back to that position ; just as , if a stone hanging by a string is displaced from its equilibrium position , the force of gravity will at once tend to bring it back to its equilibrium position . |
| 4 | That 's what you 're gon na do , you 're gon na be given a pile full of bits of rubble , shells , all sorts , and you 've got to sort them out to different piles . |
| 5 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 6 | We can supply you with more copies if you would like to send them out to other people : please ring us for more information . |
| 7 | Er we 'd dearly like to get it up to three figures again obviously because a amongst other things this affects the number of representatives that we get for conferences and so on . |
| 8 | I 'd like to take you back to one or two more aspects of your actual work on the railways . |
| 9 | So if you 'd like to bring it down to mumsy sleep . |
| 10 | In carrying out the review proposed in paragraph 10 above , MPAs will clearly have to distinguish between permissions that need improving to bring them up to modern standards , and those that are/would damage designated sites , important water resources etc . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julia said with an expression on her face that he could not quite read , ‘ but the law is the law and one ca n't decide to apply it only to those whose motives and characters one dislikes . |
| 12 | costing us lately , we 're having to get these , I mean we have that on two in the morning to get this room warmed up do n't we have to put it down to one |
| 13 | Well Mark you 'll have to make it up to some other time . |
| 14 | In a few weeks time , I hope to get a short spell of leave , and I mean to devote it exclusively to literary work . |
| 15 | A cool shower managed to sharpen her up to normal . |
| 16 | He 'd wanted to send her off to some relative in the country , but she did n't seem to have any family . |
| 17 | She managed to pare it down to two skirts , two jumpers , a cardigan , three coats , a hat , a dressing gown and a black lace evening dress . |
| 18 | Charles planned to marry her off to this man . |
| 19 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
| 20 | Eat slightly less and exercise a little more ; aim to bring it back to normal within a week or two . |
| 21 | Their fight , however , also serves to bring them closer to each other , each filling a void in their lives which they had not previously acknowledged as such . |
| 22 | They 're trying to get them up to three pound a packet , that 's what they 're trying to do . |
| 23 | Now as soon as you 've got a minus X and you 're trying to take it over to one side , and you 're trying to bring the other one over , there 's a good chance that something 's going |