Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 2 | The B set did particularly badly on number of words correctly accessed according to definition ( i ) i.e. intended words ( 1% ) , but did better on definition ( ii ) i.e. valid words ( 20% ) . |
| 3 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 4 | Only Barrow keep Salford off the bottom of the table , and while the Cumbrians already appear resigned to relegation , the Mancunians , who have spent considerable sums on rugby union internationals such as Adrian Hadley and Peter Williams in recent seasons , had their sights set higher . |
| 5 | But her mum refused to hand over a penny — and Chris 's parents finally decided to go to court for the cash . |
| 6 | He had a left hemiplegia , and was flaccid at first , although the flaccidity soon started changing to spasticity . |
| 7 | These forces in turn can react to various pathological processes such as infections , chronic irritants , including smoking , toxic agents , chronic irradiation , nutrients , etc. , which serve as activators in the process of carcinogenicity in accordance with the circumstances previously discussed relating to cell vulnerability . |
| 8 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 9 | And er I of course always wanted to go to sea , but er wh with two drowning in the family , er mother w w did n't appreciate that much . |
| 10 | Not everyone , however , fully accepts that TNC involvement in Third World agriculture always does lead to food insecurity . |
| 11 | A need also exists to demonstrate to pupil new ways of finding information and assessing the quality information they can obtain from Prestel . |
| 12 | Henceforward , population would be the determining factor ( although the number of voters in a constituency still varied according to population density , from 80,000 people per constituency in the larger towns to 25,000 in the extreme south ) . |
| 13 | The Treuhandanstalt would guarantee creditors against losing money lent to businesses unsuccessfully attempting to adapt to unification . |
| 14 | Slim people generally eat according to appetite , in a fairly relaxed fashion not governed by rules or diet sheets . |
| 15 | But a blank run of five games since has contributed to City 's disappointing fall to mid-table , out of the title race and unable to spend on team strengthening . |
| 16 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 17 | You know how guitar players always say to listen to saxophone ? |
| 18 | Secondly , there was no settlement agreed by the parties involved — the Union and the National Coal Board ( NCB ) ; the strikers simply decided to return to work in March 1985 . |
| 19 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 20 | Rather , it is an expression of the rights and liabilities generally held to attach to ownership : more exactly , the right subject to the general law to determine whether and how the assets and resources owned will be used , and the liability in certain circumstances to answer for the consequences of that use . |
| 21 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 22 | The salt crystals spontaneously began to change to fern shapes whenever the experiment began . |
| 23 | With slavery and introduced disease , the population was reduced by 90% within two generations and , by 1550 , there was a plantation economy exporting sugar , cocoa , indigo and cochineal but large amounts of the land originally cultivated reverted to forest . |
| 24 | Their application to mergers therefore tends to lead to uncertainty and instability , instead of providing the orderly framework and timetable essential for the conduct of public share acquisitions and takeover bids . |
| 25 | You need your owner 's support and wisdom so try to keep to heel and do as you 're told . |
| 26 | Tbilisi arrive in Belfast tomorrow having failed to book hotel accommodation in advance . |
| 27 | Look on the funny side ; I mean , supposing , just for a sec , we pretend that , somehow or other , the little cow hat actually managed to come to life . |
| 28 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |