Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week after the Nürburgring , I think anyone would have been hard put to imagine that Niki could possibly return to racing . |
| 2 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 3 | The council should not agree to standing orders being ‘ suspended ’ except in a real emergency otherwise the conduct of the council 's business will be unnecessarily prolonged and the standard of debate lowered . |
| 4 | But you always evaded this question , saying your allowance from home would not stretch to paying the extra rent . |
| 5 | Lyric Fantasy will now stick to sprinting with Royal Ascot 's King 's Stand Stakes her next target . |
| 6 | According to Pierre Rosenberg the museum will never succumb to showing paintings and sculpture , for example , together because that would be tantamount to sacrificing the traditional structure of scholarship at the museum . |
| 7 | If such trials are successful , attention will then turn to examining the mechanisms by which CBT achieves its goals and whether they are in accord with the hypotheses of the theorists . |
| 8 | The seller wo n't admit to having noisy neighbours , but you are more likely to find out if you make further visits . |
| 9 | Choosing the wrong technology , or failing to take the necessary adaptive measures in management , production or marketing can quickly lead to falling profits , dwindling market shares and finally to takeover or closure . |
| 10 | A list can even rise to evoking the mood of a picture , as in this description by the Goncourt brothers of Chardin 's subjects ; ‘ He introduces into his pictures his wash-basin , his mastiff puppy , the objects and the creatures to which he is accustomed in his home … the pure simple features of the working middle class , happy in its tranquillity , its labour and its obscurity . |
| 11 | The patient may then progress to moving forwards and backwards using his seat muscles . |
| 12 | In the last category was a proposal from Sir Stafford Cripps , British Ambassador in Moscow , for the occupation of the coal-mining and strategic island of Spitzbergen ( see map p. 28 ) , but Allied sea power would not stretch to convoying supplies for a garrison so far from home waters . |
| 13 | In taps , replacing the tap washer and tightening the gland nut will both contribute to stopping water hammer occurring . |