Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rentokil and Retail Cleaning is not a partnership that naturally springs to mind . |
| 2 | But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants . |
| 3 | There are certain opportunities that only occur to organisations with the necessary technical competence , market position or trading relationships . |
| 4 | How can you play football and not go to school then ? |
| 5 | The notebooks show that Nietzsche was prepared to rethink the precise shape of the book well into 1871 , but almost all of the numerous plans there — including some which appear to be earlier than " Socrates and Instinct " — point to a book centrally concerned with tragedy and recognizably related to BT . |
| 6 | Last year they tracked down Weatherall in Rimini and consequently signed to Boy 's Own . |
| 7 | There are first of all mandatory exceptions , to be retained centrally by all LEAs and not delegated to schools . |
| 8 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 9 | The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed . |
| 10 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 11 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 12 | The woman , whose hands were still bound , clambered from the back seat into the front of the two-door car and then struggled to safety . |
| 13 | She joined the King 's Fund 's then existing nursing college and later moved to director Jim Elliott 's new learning difficulties project . |
| 14 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 15 | ( c ) master equipment for recording and reproducing , e.g. recording a programme off air on to tape and then transferring to cassettes for use at the satellites . |
| 16 | She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ . |
| 17 | He built a fortune in the construction industry and then moved to Highfields Stables in the village of Adstone just north of Banbury and took up training . |
| 18 | ‘ I will drive to the stables and then go to Aunt Lavvy . |
| 19 | Biologically this can not be true , but it may be an assertion of political friendship and thus relate to Valentinian 's diplomacy . |
| 20 | You know Irene and I had a holiday along there , we stayed at Frinton and then moved to Clacton . |
| 21 | She tilts forward slightly , revealing an ample cleavage and brazenly says to Nicholson , ‘ Hi Jack , would you like to dance ? ’ |
| 22 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 23 | The papers have been desperate to unsettle Rocky for ages , so they see that Wilko has made some enquiries about a player , they see the two clubs , they see an out-of-favour player on each side and immediately jump to conclusions . |
| 24 | A timely reminder of the potential bio-hazards facing members , this study should remind us all that we deal on a daily basis with chemicals and micro-organisms which can cause much harm and ultimately lead to ill-health . |
| 25 | In the Eighties , when everything was disposable , the scrap-yard was a car 's final resting place — a crude graveyard where dented hulks were crushed beyond recognition and then sent to landfill sites . |
| 26 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 27 | You control a floating hand that wibbles of its own accord but still responds to joystick commands , so you do n't have to wait for it to wobble onto the bit of the board you want to shoot at . |
| 28 | Inspector Brian Butcher said : ‘ It is the case that always springs to mind when children are involved ’ . |
| 29 | Interactive Systems Corp — the Naperville , Illinois-based end of the dismembered company and the bit that still belongs to Eastman Kodak Co , has come out with Streamware TCP , a portable implementation of TCP/IP aimed at designers and integrators of distributed systems . |
| 30 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |