Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 2 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 3 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 4 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 5 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 6 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 7 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 8 | Clearly it all adds up to a great season ahead for the fans , who fought to keep speedway in Swindon . |
| 9 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 10 | It all adds up to a better deal , for your managers , your training budget and for effective corporate management development . |
| 11 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 12 | Our friendly bar with its extensive range of beers , real ales and cocktails , combined with the latest music , dancing and entertainment , adds up to a memorable evening in a convivial atmosphere . |
| 13 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 14 | Cos each group adds up to a dotted quaver . |
| 15 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 16 | This all adds up to a bleak picture for corporate UK . |
| 17 | Which all in all adds up to a Mediterranean type of diet — with porridge ! |
| 18 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |
| 19 | Maintaining safety in the home is an expensive business and , for families with children , the purchase of recommended safety equipment — such as car safety seats , stair gates , a playpen and a cooker guard — adds up to a considerable sum . |
| 20 | This little difference adds up to a large saving . |
| 21 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 22 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 23 | A general survey of the whole span of Church history leads on to a second-level course which explores the growth and diversification of Christianity in three contexts ; the second century in the Roman Empire , early modern Europe and nineteenth-century Africa and America . |
| 24 | This leads on to a major guideline for all consequences : |
| 25 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 26 | This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response . |
| 27 | This leads on to a further point . |
| 28 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 29 | There 's a swimming pool and sauna , and a path leads down to a private lakeside beach , and being a castle style hotel , there 's plenty of style . |
| 30 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |