Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has sometimes led to rail company policies of resisting cutbacks , restoring services ( e.g. in the home states of influential congressmen ) and avoiding staff reductions . |
| 2 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 3 | Fortunately this did not lead to complacency . |
| 4 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 5 | Pension funds must gain approval from the Superannuation Funds Office ( SFO ) — part of the Inland Revenue — to gain the tax advantages relevant to pension funds ( although this does not relate to protection for pension scheme members ) . |
| 6 | BBCBASIC(Z80) will tolerate the omission of the separator if this does not lead to ambiguity . |
| 7 | But this does not amount to dependence on the political wishes of governments or ministers as such . |
| 8 | This does not apply to membership or employment in any public body , e.g. , an electricity authority . |
| 9 | This does n't happen to mineral waters . |
| 10 | But it is probably relatively easy to give up compared to heroin . |
| 11 | To begin with , the Sale of Goods Act 1979 does not apply to computer software . |
| 12 | This will operate under the name of Focus Sales Group , and will distribute titles from publishers of black writing , men 's and women 's issues , psychology , personal development , recovery and new thought — publishers like Shambhala itself , Chiron , Parallax and Siga ( all three having recently transferred to Airlift from other distributors ) , Beacon , Hazelden , Writers & Readers , Parabola and Spring Publications , among others . |
| 13 | The three did not come to trial until last week when they were each imprisoned for four years . |
| 14 | Accordingly the other subsections of section 4 and section 5 do not apply to section 15 . |
| 15 | But all did not go to plan . |
| 16 | There was one time she was all dressed up to go to town and I did n't know her because she had a hat on . |
| 17 | It is debatable whether this permission can properly be described as a " right or interest " in the copyright ; if it can be so described then sections 2 to 4 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 do not apply to software contracts and this is the most likely interpretation . |
| 18 | The economic conditions of the 19705 do not lead to optimism if one continues to hold this view . |
| 19 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 20 | However , many suspect that he will head North this SA season and in South Africa that does n't mean to rugby league . |
| 21 | I can not envisage a system related to ability to pay that does not approximate to income flows . |
| 22 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 23 | Eleven does not begin to rate in the surf numbers game . |
| 24 | ‘ If you two do n't get to bed soon it 'll be a miracle if you 're up and about in time for the wedding . |
| 25 | As it is , the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 does not apply to bankruptcy , winding up and analogous proceedings . |
| 26 | Hundreds of thousands have already starved to death . |