Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise . |
2 | If she went out into the rue du Bateau her suspicions might latch on to an innocent person coming from one of the other flats . |
3 | If they think peace is impossible , they will hang on to the extra layer of defence these territories provide . |
4 | We will opt in to the Social Chapter of the new European Treaty and introduce employment standards common in successful economies , including the best health and safety legislation . |
5 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
6 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
7 | Just as a human baby may draw comfort from sucking a dummy , so occasionally a baby elephant will sidle up to a young female and suck her milkless nipple . |
8 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
9 | It is inevitable , therefore , that problems in this respect will carry through to a tentative application of economics to law . |
10 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
11 | A spokesman said : ‘ The problem with heavy rainfall and flash floods is that a lot of it runs away before it can soak through to the underground aquifers . ’ |
12 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
13 | Whatever figure you choose , you can then borrow up to a given multiple of that amount whenever you like , either in a lump sum or in small irregular amounts . |
14 | She did n't feel up to a zealous dyke conversion . |
15 | If the dramatic frame is an enquiry or an investigation the children might well be creating still images , which they can then bring back to the whole group . |
16 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
17 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |
18 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
19 | It would be logical to expect an author to cite his thesis in his first related paper , so that readers could refer back to the original source . |
20 | It was nearly a mile of steep climbing , he knew , before he would emerge on to the open heathland where The Drover 's Arms stood . |
21 | Basic Stable Management , is designed as an introductory course and students could follow on to the Senior Horsemaster Course 1 and then onto the Senior Horsemasters Course 2 which is an equivalent level of study to the BHS Stage IV . |
22 | This has to be done by the Tuesday before the weekly Friday sale so that potential buyers can then tune in to an electronic preview of the lots to be offered together with their weights , breed and feed methods . |
23 | Sometimes during the night someone from Wouldham would run down to the opposite bank and call for the Doctor . |
24 | In this situation you should gradually work up to the 20-minute target . |
25 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
26 | PSD itself will then provide up to an additional £8.50 per week towards excess travelling costs . |
27 | His speech is the latest in a series which will run up to the Scottish party conference in May at which a booklet containing all his speeches will be on sale to the party faithful . |
28 | There are two disadvantages to this approach ; first , it is enormously time consuming and second , the polygon topology of the input coverage is not preserved , so one can not work back to the initial coverage attributes . |
29 | But to return to the run of the mill accident , the team will be occupied on average for about a week following which they will report back to the Chief Inspector . |
30 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |