Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 2 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 3 | Spread top of smaller cake with jam , invert on to larger cake and press down firmly . |
| 4 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 5 | Such errors would not he passed on to future generations but would die out . |
| 6 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 7 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 9 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 10 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 11 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 12 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 13 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 14 | Cut the power and pull back the yoke fully , whereupon the Aircoupe will slow down to 50 mph and , because you ca n't stall it , will nod and mush downwards , the full-span ailerons remaining effective throughout . |
| 15 | At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform . |
| 16 | sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven |
| 17 | Some companies make lifts that fit on to curved stairways or have automatic platforms that bridge the difference between the two steps at a platform landing . |
| 18 | ( Morley moved on to greater things as Britain 's leading rock journalist and then even greater things as the mentor behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood ) . |
| 19 | There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity . |
| 20 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 21 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 22 | Better to drive a bit farther , down in to lower Normandy and the beautiful Vallée d'Auge , past old Norman farms and manors , through country thick with apple trees , and pastures so opulent and green that unless you have seen some of the raw , rebuilt little towns , it is hard to believe in the terrible devastation of only fifteen years ago . |
| 23 | Hunt 's points were restored and Niki lost three , so that the position was now one which could be contemplated with some equanimity : Niki had dropped down to 52 points and Hunt leapfrogged up to 26 . |
| 24 | The remaining 75 per cent — much of it ground down to toxic sludge and non-degradable waste — ends up dumped in landfill sites . |
| 25 | Nothing daunted , the mourners moved over to one side and made the most of this grand reunion . |
| 26 | You can take a cruise down the Nile , fly off to sun-drenched Barbados or choose any holiday you wish . |
| 27 | Erm I 've started writing off , we 've drafted a letter to write off to different colleges and sort of I 'll write off before I do my exams . |
| 28 | Will he urge the chairman to carry out a study of the economics of mining anthracite from small drift mines employing up to 75 people because many believe that mined in that way , anthracite could be extremely saleable and competitive in relation to both opencast operations and imports of Chinese coal ? |
| 29 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 30 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |