Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to .
2 This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch
3 But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’
4 Landforms developed in relation to the earlier and higher base level are abandoned as erosion starts to work down to the new base level .
5 Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again .
6 Does he further agree that the Labour party wants to sign up to the social chapter only in order to regain its power by having beer and sandwiches at No. 10 ?
7 International discussion of service of process is influenced — and often confused — by the differing assumptions of the participants , each of whom tends to project on to the international plane the familiar features of his own national system .
8 In a cross wind it almost always pays to turn off to the down wind side first .
9 In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself .
10 It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk .
11 It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk .
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