Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 2 | A CLEVELAND school band conducted by Labour leader Neil Kinnock hopes to go on to more national acclaim . |
| 3 | What , what it is on that one you 've got this speaker right and it goes down to really low frequencies especially |
| 4 | It is already obvious that the columns vary according to the point size , you can get away quite happily with two columns across an A4 in 12 point , three would be better in 10 point and to get four you 'll need to go down to perhaps 8 point . |
| 5 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 6 | Having dealt with a less than happy situation Mr Vernon moved on to more pleasant matters , reminding the meeting of the Headquarters and Depot Open Days in August and of the warm reception shown to the public by those who man the lifeboat stations . |
| 7 | This adds up to more good marks than most cars get . |
| 8 | It 's not come about to any large degree an' there 's bin a lot o' firms that invested in what 's turned out ter be a pipe dream . |
| 9 | Colour some fondant fleshy pink for the faces and hands , and mould on to appropriately coloured torsos and arms . |
| 10 | Indeed , for the CMHTs a group home which ‘ collapsed ’ was a success if the residents moved on to more appropriate environments . |
| 11 | moved on to more sophisticated mist sprays and everything and that 's the only reason I 'm selling it . |
| 12 | The present intake will be moved on to more permanent accommodation on Wednesday . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ In the end it came down to just two letters . |
| 14 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 15 | For the younger workers , in particular , mechanization has become a badge of their modernity which they can show off to otherwise uncomprehending townies in a manner which the latter can understand . |
| 16 | The injustice of it all , the knowledge that Spiderglass possessed her and there was nowhere she could hide from them with their tracer in her head , the certainty that Karel could blackmail her with her string of crimes pushing her ever deeper into the mire — it all added up to just one thing . |
| 17 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 18 | In this case , the offender would be liable ( at the discretion of the sentencing court ) to be ordered to be returned to prison to serve up to almost six years of the original sentence , in addition to whatever sentence is imposed for the latest offence . |
| 19 | Progress during implementation should be monitored on both a time and a cost basis against a critical path-based plan , and regular reports should be fed back to more senior management . |
| 20 | Lean and the Boultings drifted towards less intense forms of filmmaking , and the concerns evident in their early 1950s pictures were pushed out to less prestigious areas of film production . |
| 21 | Following toasts to the University , to Convocation and to our Guests , Mr Orme rounded off the evening by regaling us with some reminiscences of his early days in Parliament , where he has served for Salford West from 1964–1983 and Salford East since 1983 during which time he has held several posts in Government and on the Opposition front bench , and going on to more recent experiences whilst visiting Eastern Europe as the moves towards democracy gathered strength . |
| 22 | Algorithms such as reversing sequences of ie to ei following a letter c are effective first attempts before going on to more complicated techniques , or even instead of such techniques which may turn out to be counter-productive in terms of time taken and the number of candidates produced . |
| 23 | Yet others may be thinking of going on to more formal education , and treat a year with the OCA as an introduction to their particular interest . |
| 24 | Such backing must come from national government — the issues are too big for the responsibility of generating finance to be handed down to more local levels . |
| 25 | It has , however , not been shown up to now that eradication of H pylori modifies parietal cell mass or acid secretion rates . |
| 26 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 27 | As teachers , we should notice that a clear understanding of the formal connections between sentences may help to explain one of the ways in which foreign language students sometimes write supposedly connected sentences , each of which is well-formed in itself , but which somehow add up to very strange discourse . |
| 28 | These are the pampering touches — they make your holiday special and add up to very good value for money . |
| 29 | In sum , all of these developments add up to more intense competition for the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | Burton pulled the struggle out into the open and made this ‘ thing ’ that was himself stand up to as many trials as he could imagine . |