Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jacobson 's rehabilitation of Cain is in a literary tradition that goes back to the Romantic poets , who identified with Cain as an outsider . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 8 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 11 | But the plunder is just part of the over-fishing that dates back to the 1960s , when North Sea herring were annihilated . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Swan-upping ; a Thames tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 23 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 24 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 25 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 26 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 27 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 28 | Lear is evidently pleased with what Goneril has said , since he awards her a rich part of England , and moves on to the second movement , where again two daughters speak . |
| 29 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 30 | The house itself is , not surprisingly , a little younger and dates back to the 16th century when it was owned by the great-great-aunt of President George Washington . |