Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two members , Simmel emphasized , are interdependent , for ‘ the secession of either would destroy the whole ’ social unit , and its ‘ affective structure is based on what each of the two participants gives or shows only to the one other person and to nobody else ’ . |
| 2 | So we see that if you have a school that goes up to the ninth grade , the Ministry covers the costs up to the sixth grade but the other years are paid for by parents . |
| 3 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 4 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 5 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 6 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 7 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 8 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 9 | The shod-wave infrared ( SWIR ) that lies closest to the red end of the visible spectrum behaves like visible light ( except that our eyes can not detect it ) . |
| 10 | I think I know how those farouchely stubborn seekers of popular approval feel , as they endure the pedestrian trudge that leads finally to the green leather benches of the Palace of Westminster and the right to hawk insults at one another . |
| 11 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 13 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 14 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |
| 15 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 16 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 17 | There is St John 's Hospital , the first in Europe , built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , although founded much earlier , and still in use until the 1970s ; the Beguinage , a religious foundation for women that dates back to the twelfth century , now a convent ; the thirteenth-to fifteenth-century Church of our Lady , with a 350ft tower ; the Stadhuis , a magnificent Gothic town hall dating from 1376-1420 . |
| 18 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 19 | That an English hero should become so popular on historically alien ground is a phenomenon best explained by Charlton 's instinct for being nothing but himself , a characteristic that appeals mightily to the Celtic nature . |
| 20 | The letter links the findings of Dis-continuing care with Age Concern 's recent work on hospital discharge and other issues , and refers also to the recent decisions of the Health Service Commissioner on health authority responsibilities for provision of long-term care . |
| 21 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 22 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 23 | Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 25 | On the night of Friday , 8th September , the barrier was broken through and rescue workers wearing breathing apparatus were able to take hot food and drinks through to the trapped men . |
| 26 | This corresponds broadly with the approach of the previous chapter , and owes much to the Weberian analysis of bureaucracy . |
| 27 | I Cnut is solely concerned with religion , and owes much to the 1018 text ( which had itself drawn heavily on VI Æthelred ) , to VIII Æthelred ( a Wulfstan document from 1014 ) , to some of Edgar 's provisions , and to various Wulfstan homilies . |
| 28 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 29 | The ion enters the membrane forming a complex with the ligand , and passes through to the pure water on the other side where it is oxidised back to Cu 2+ ( in other words , it loses the electron ) by dissolved oxygen from the air . |
| 30 | From the roadside a short distance west of Blindbeck Bridge , a cart track branches off at a tangent and climbs easily to the shallow depression between Barbon Low Fell and Barbon High Fell , having the stream ( named as Aygill by the Ordnance Survey and as Barkin Gill by the caving fraternity ) away on the left . |