Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are thought to date back to 3,500 BC , which suggests that the technological achievements of the Mesopotamians have been grossly underrated . |
| 2 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 3 | The FBI and Britain 's Serious Fraud Office are investigating the scandal at its US offshoot , which is alleged to date back to 1983 and involve bogus defence contracts with Pakistan , China and South Africa . |
| 4 | She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell . |
| 5 | Secondly are we going to cave in to French blackmail again and what will it cost us , and thirdly if we 're going to have even more people going to Strasbourg or to Brussels or to anywhere else , is n't it about time we tried to save the people of Britain who are getting more and more worried and concerned and perplexed about E C , particularly in places like Harrow where they take a special interest in public affairs . |
| 6 | As I said there are just three sizes but I 've got five five prices , I would just like to home in on those three . |
| 7 | Kenneth Clarke , the home secretary , agreed to back down on some of the ‘ absurd ’ aspects of the government 's criminal justice reforms . |
| 8 | The scheme applies to Peugeots up to five years old and there is no limit on cost , ‘ as long as it is a part that keeps the vehicle off the road ’ . |
| 9 | Most important was the fact that personal circumstances and creative needs of each man had impelled him to be , in a phrase which Eliot applies to Lawrence in After Strange Gods but which applies equally well to himself , a ‘ restless seeker for myths ’ . |
| 10 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 11 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 12 | An optimum path can be selected and other activities adjusted to phase in with those on this ‘ critical path ’ . |
| 13 | When the company was trying to stimulate confidence amongst its backers , Nimslo proudly claimed that it had ‘ received ’ nearly £3 million in government grants to tool up for British production at the Timex factory in Dundee . |
| 14 | If you became very dehydrated , still feel tired and edgy , the Association points to China Off for 10 days . |
| 15 | And there was this parish here , Wenhaston , and Westleton which is the next one , there were about a hundred and fifty men went to sea out of these two parishes . |
| 16 | The rifle is one of two AK47 's used in the attacks carried out by the Ardoyne IRA unit which is believed to number up to 18 . |
| 17 | Some 750 Brazilian street children ( believed to number up to 12,000,000 throughout the country ) went to Brasília in late September for a conference , at which they said 624 of their number had been murdered in the past 19 months , many of them by death squads . |
| 18 | The work 's already led to queues up to eight miles long . |
| 19 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 20 | Because it 's a beta version , I do n't propose to harp on about any niggles , but will say this — if more DOS applications adopt its user interface and usability as well as its wealth of functions , the death of DOS may be further off than many of us have predicted . |
| 21 | When she spoke to Guitarist back in 1988 , Jennifer described how landing the job as guitar player on one of the largest tours ever was a dream come true ; how did it feel to be asked back this time ? |
| 22 | One of the oldest hostelries in Scotland , said to date back to 1456 . |
| 23 | Current levels of consignment are running below budget with analysts lowering fourth quarter aggregate estimates to $460 down from previous estimates of $500 million and down on last year 's figure of $493 million . |
| 24 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 25 | Sometimes forgetting to belt up for several miles . |