Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 3 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 4 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 5 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 6 | Turkey , which seized the northern third of Cyprus in 1974 and still has up to 30,000 troops here , withheld immediate comment on Mr Clerides ' victory . |
| 7 | When the patient is in bed , he usually uses up to three pillows plus a wedge cushion support for his head and shoulders , to counteract spasticity ( p. 49 ) . |
| 8 | He 'd been hired by the man 's parents but still faces up to 20 years in gaol . |
| 9 | He 's a class traitor , and if he ever comes round to this house he 's fucking dead . ’ |
| 10 | Useful load also goes up to 450 kilos from 380 . |
| 11 | The player also offers up to ten hours continuous playing time if two additional rechargeable batteries are added to the basic pair , which themselves provide up to two-and-a-half hours play . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |
| 13 | Straight tracks up to fifty miles ( 80 km ) in length , often aligned to a mountain top , were still in use by local inhabitants . |
| 14 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
| 15 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
| 16 | She often works up to 16 hours a day and says that her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor does not intrude on her research . |
| 17 | Police arrested him with 14 ounces of the drug in January and he now faces up to 25 years in jail . |
| 18 | the radiation dose here goes up to 5 Sv and was mostly due to γ-rays . |
| 19 | This despair frequently relates back to early experiences when adults were literally more powerful than children and were therefore blamed by those children for some of the awful things , real or imaginary , that happened to them . |
| 20 | This large pathology institute regularly sends out to all doctors in Denmark special packs containing a transport medium into which samples from patients suspected of having gonorrhoea can be inoculated . |
| 21 | Its implementation reportedly supports up to 500 I/Os per second and each I/O request addresses 64KB of data . |
| 22 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 23 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
| 24 | He readily owns up to this refusal to be tied down . |
| 25 | He then moves on to 10 minutes of shadow boxing before Davies dons the hand-pads and waits for pain . |
| 26 | It then moves on to simple applications of that technology ( standalone applications ) normally driven by technologists . |
| 27 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |
| 28 | In year two this actually drops down to twelve point six percent and in year three down to nine five percent . |