Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been the collection that has finally established medium to good pieces of this period as part of the mainstream of serious American furniture collecting . |
| 2 | We for our part are unaware of any statement of national policy that requires sparsely populated counties to be earmarked for development . |
| 3 | There is no evidence to indicate that behaving aggressively reduces tendencies to be aggressive . |
| 4 | An important feature of current accounts is that banks often allow customers to be overdrawn . |
| 5 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 6 | Rules that had once obliged Catholics to fast from midnight before receiving Communion were eased . |
| 7 | Both Morse and Lewis stood , rather warily , beside the car as Downes began to fiddle ( once more ) with a hearing-aid one which looked to them suspiciously like the model that had earlier given rise to such piercing oscillation . |
| 8 | It 's all right for me — I can close my eyes for a moment , and stroke my beard , and make little gasping noises to myself . |
| 9 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 10 | Trichlorethylene and tetrachlorethylene used in dry cleaning and degreasing also pose threats to health , especially through contamination of groundwater , and have been detected in tapwater . |
| 11 | Now suppose that the government of this country believes that curve A represents a permanent trade-off between unemployment and inflation and chooses therefore to reduce unemployment to U* by increasing the rate of growth of the nominal money supply . |
| 12 | Conventionality and Contrast together allow speakers to be consistent from one occasion to the next in their uses of the conventional meanings assigned to linguistic forms , and to maintain the same form-meaning pairings over time . |
| 13 | Yet another partnership prospered beyond 100 , the third in succession , and Sohail eventually cut Salisbury to the pavilion boundary to reach 203 after 5½ hours in the middle . |
| 14 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 15 | As a formal procedure , this is today rare and serves mainly to attract publicity to the cause in question . |
| 16 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 17 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 18 | Marriage is a rite of passage and does actually give credence to loving and being loved by someone exclusively . ’ |
| 19 | BR 's LDCs have considerable influence over issues such as the allocation of work between depots , and have strongly resisted changes to the established pattern of working , since this determines earnings levels . |
| 20 | They have been on shopping trips , watched plenty of television and have even enjoyed visits to the Camelot theme park and Formby sands , courtesy of John Davies , another friend of Bob 's , who is currently out of work and has volunteered with his wife to take the Causevics on occasional days out . |
| 21 | I personally would n't regard having to contact Germany for spares as the end of the world , and have always found Warwick to be extremely helpful in such circumstances . |
| 22 | Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information . |
| 23 | Do not enter the Airport but continue forward following signs to Redhill and Crawley A23 . |
| 24 | There is a particular danger that national competition policies might be used in a protectionist or promotional manner as described above to give advantage to domestic producers . |