Example sentences of "to [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , he admits to editing out one joke that created some controversy when it appeared in a promotional reel earlier this year . |
| 2 | A hospital 's emergency and maternity units are still threatened with closure after a report failed to ruled out the possibility . |
| 3 | Their new king , Philip IV , is devoting all his energies and resources to building up alliances in Europe . |
| 4 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 5 | He had provided merely skimpy further details of the first two pilots , dedicating his greatest effort to building up a detailed profile of Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 6 | DAVEY Boy Smith left his 14-year-old schoolfriends to chase girls while he dedicated himself to building up his body in the gym . |
| 7 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 8 | This is known as a bus — a circuit dedicated to whizzing around chunks of related data . |
| 9 | There is n't a hotel restaurant , but when it comes to eating out in Stuttgart you 're spoilt for choice . |
| 10 | and erm and she used to lived in , she does n't wan na come via it . |
| 11 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 12 | Try to discipline yourself to using up leftovers . |
| 13 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
| 14 | Yeah no we have n't , no we have n't been paid yet , no that 's , that 's right we hate to got back with |
| 15 | He claimed he had acted to protect US lives ; to defend the Panama Canal ( control of which was to passed over to Panama on January 1 , 1990 — eleven days before the invasion ) ; to ‘ restore democracy ’ to Panama ; and to stop drug trafficking and bring Noriega to justice . |
| 16 | At this moment I 'm committed to seeing out my contract . ’ |
| 17 | The policy of increasing the role of the market sector has extended to contracting out services in the National Health Service and local government and the removal of the monopoly powers of solicitors ( over house sale conveyancing ) , or barristers appearing in the high court , opticians , and financial services via Big Bang in 1986 . |
| 18 | ensuring fair competition by removing the obstacles and disincentives to contracting out ; |
| 19 | The combined effect of these two decisions , at least if the broader implications of the Redmond Stichting decision are followed , upon UK law in relation to contracting out is clearly very significant , as the UK government seems now to have realised . |
| 20 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 21 | Most just let off steam by shouting and screaming , but one in five admitted to lashing out . |
| 22 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 23 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 24 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 25 | " The Council heard a preliminary report from the Commission following talks with the Soviet government … with a view to drawing up proposals on short-term credit and longer-term support to be given to structural reforms . " |
| 26 | Its work ranges from soil analysis to Civil Engineering firms , to drawing up green plans for Local Authorities . |
| 27 | Though a picture may sometimes be worth a thousand words , this may not be true when it comes to drawing out facts from figures . |
| 28 | The account is not exhaustive but is outlined with a view to drawing out alternative perspectives . |
| 29 | Both are under the greatest attack from a government committed to drawing back from the welfare state . |
| 30 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |