Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 2 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 3 | Will one of them tumble to the heretical truth , that they have sprung from a remote , earlier form of life , rooted in organic , carbon chemistry , rather than the silicon-based electronic principles of their own bodies ? |
| 4 | So when you realise it 's somewhere about three hundred and fifty thousand chartered engineers in th U K as a whole you 'll see most of them belong to the three major organisations . |
| 5 | Apart from the works cited in this introduction , some of which refer to the American and Australian literature , there are now two books specifically directed to the analysis of many of these issues within a British context . |
| 6 | The Australian desert , for example , is structurally an ancient worn-down plateau of crystalline and ancient sedimentary rocks , the more resistant of which rise to a thousand metres or more ( a few thousand feet ) above the general surface level . |
| 7 | all of which calibrate to the Early or Middle Bronze Age ; such a body of evidence can not be chance . |
| 8 | Switzerland is famous for six cheeses , four of which belong to the semi-hard family , although they are sometimes referred to as hard cheeses . |
| 9 | There are , however , four distinct stages in the development of phylloxera , all of which belong to the same Phylloxera vastatrix life-cycle : the sexual , the leaf , the root and the winged form . |
| 10 | All surfaces — dome , drum , pillars , chancel screen and walls are covered in paintings , some of which belong to the fourteenth century building period ( 232 ) . |
| 11 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 12 | European reaction to the sale has been muted ; one London auction house expert pointed to the poor quality of a number of the items illustrated in the publicity material ( items which will apparently be in the sale ) , several of which date to the early years of this century . |
| 13 | The scheme involves replacing buildings , some of which date to the 1930s . |
| 14 | In the new scheme , worldwide sales are divided into three regions each of which report to a new vice-president of worldwide sales . |
| 15 | From the same stable , come two rather different products , both of which conform to the National Curriculum and are well presented additions to the fast improving library of educational software available for the PC : — |
| 16 | I have already argued ( Chapter l ) that capitalist development does not of itself lead to the political unification of the working class . |
| 17 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 18 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 19 | Achieving that aim will in itself amount to a manifest setback for Mr Hussein . |
| 20 | So so which is your so so you go to you go to the local catholic church . |
| 21 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |
| 22 | This is also the point at which access to the upper-floor studio and store is obtained via an iron spiral staircase . |