Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 2 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 3 | In recession large firms concentrate more output within their own plant where economies of scale yield lower average costs compared to labour intensive subcontractors The advantages of a flexible industrial structure was greatly assisted up to the 1970s by a protected home market which gave companies a secure domestic base . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect to come out of these games with good results , ’ said Atkinson , before warning about hidden pitfalls in the long run in to the finishing line . |
| 5 | So I guess I owe you an apology , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ although when you walked in through the kitchen door , all dressed up to the nines after being with Ryan , I wanted anything but to forgive you . ’ |
| 6 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 7 | The current embrace in Britain of utility clothing and design is best traced back to the Eighties baseball thing — the period when genuine US clothing brands , from workwear to sports names like Russell Athletic , began turning up in shops like London 's Passenger and The Duffer of St George . |
| 8 | CROWDS of starving Muslims , mostly women and children , cheered and wept yesterday as a long-delayed United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally won through to the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica . |
| 9 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 10 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 11 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 12 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 13 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 14 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 15 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 16 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 17 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 18 | In addition , many other categories of workers in the formal and informal sectors in all three worlds have been progressively drawn in to the global capitalist system by the simple expedient of severely restricting and in more and more cases absolutely destroying their prospects for selfsufficiency in the provision of food , shelter and other ‘ necessities ’ of life . |
| 19 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 20 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 21 | Before Edward 's reforms of 1289–91 , offices were normally farmed out to the highest bidder . |
| 22 | Schools should be able to request more frequent inspections so that the best practice of a few is not brought down to the standard practice of the many . |
| 23 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 24 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 25 | The drawing suggests how a sector of resources has been ignored and is not linked in to the over-all plan . |
| 26 | Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city . |
| 27 | We are thus led back to the same problem as before ; although the fact of taking X as end does not justify the decision to do Y , the enjoyment of X which does complete the justification is itself merely a psychological fact . |
| 28 | Of the group , Dobson and Imrie have already passed over to the paid ranks . |
| 29 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 30 | These sorts of books have such an excellent hardback sale which is not always carried through to the same extent with the paperback . |