Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 3 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 4 | The restriction will also apply to related allowances — the additional personal allowance ( which goes mainly to single parents ) ; the widow 's bereavement allowance ( which is paid to a widow in the year of her husband 's death and in the following year ) ; and the relief for maintenance payments to a divorced or separated spouse . |
| 5 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 6 | Organisational design : establishing a structure where form follows function and which contributes directly to institutional purposes and processes . |
| 7 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 8 | The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot 's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama . |
| 9 | The card is equipped with 1 megabyte of VideoRAM which allows up to 32,000 colours to be displayed . |
| 10 | We now have access to the Sierra RAMDAC on many graphics cards , which allows up to 32,000 colours on screen at any time , usually limited to a resolution of 800x600 , and , with the right technology , can actually provide up to 65,536 colours onscreen , albeit at the VGA resolution of 640x80 . |
| 11 | Revolving loans — personal customers under this type of arrangement can borrow a multiple of monthly payment , e.g. £30 per month may be paid to the finance house which allows up to 15 times that amount to be borrowed ( £450 ) . |
| 12 | Adjoining is the York Suite which accommodates up to 30 guests . |
| 13 | Viewed structurally and organically , it is the firing line manager in whom all authority and responsibility centre ; only what he can not do himself passes up to higher management ’ . |
| 14 | It is intended that a teacher choose and teach a topic which leads up to formal rule or formula . |
| 15 | About 100 yds after passing confluence of streams cross right-hand path to river where safe , and ascend a few yards to reach well-defined path which leads parallel to right-hand stream , following it up to its source . |
| 16 | Finally a framework which stretches back to distant school days but which retains its validity is that your presentation must have a clear beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 17 | Yes , Milton manager , Keith Stock celebrated yet another birthday yesterday , and his team gave him something to celebrate with three points at Basement Club , Bishops Cleve this afternoon to see United extend their unbeaten record which stretches back to last October . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State will be aware of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station , which employs up to 200 people in my constituency . |
| 19 | there is one general module descriptor which applies both to vocal work and to a range of instrumental types ; |
| 20 | The Prince rule of strict liability as to age , which applies equally to indecent assault , has already been noticed . |
| 21 | The theory is based on the underlying concept of conditional independence which applies equally to discrete data summarised in the form of contingency tables and to continuous data summarised by regression and correlation coefficients . |
| 22 | The second complementary point , which applies particularly to social anthropology in the British style , is the ( usually unstated ) claim that we can exemplify the ways of humanity in general by making a series of close studies of particular examples of very small-scale and usually quite exotic forms of social life . |
| 23 | It is an even bigger dilemma at the ideology-setting level , which relates more to strategic movement . |
| 24 | The jungle cat , which weighs up to 20 lb ( 9 kg ) , preys largely on birds including pheasants and jungle fowl and lives in the drier and more open forest . |
| 25 | An open Toolbuilder interface , which accesses up to 70 target functions to develop application specific tools . |
| 26 | ANGRY Labour MPs are demanding an inquiry into the secret deal which gives up to 100 members of the Royal Family free postal services . |
| 27 | AMONG the super savings is this voucher which admits up to four people to the American Adventure Theme Park for just £3 each . |
| 28 | In three short stories about Le Chevalier Dupin , The murders in the Rue Morgue , The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter , Poe laid down virtually all the essentials of the genre which continues happily to this day nearly 150 years later . |
| 29 | The base SVR4.0 kernel was taken forward into a multi-processing release which supports up to 16 processors , SVR4 MP . |
| 30 | It also has a new non-upgradable entry model , the 9402 A02 , which supports up to seven workstations and is about £6,000 with OS/400 — available only in the UK , Italy and one or two other European markets — not the US or Japan . |