Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 2 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 3 | The management want me to put another voice on it so the rushes do n't go to waste . |
| 4 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 5 | Two different methods have recently come to hand . |
| 6 | Two training books have also come to light this month . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly there are differences in people 's experiences of support between grandparents and grandchildren , but we have so little up-to-date evidence on this issue that it is difficult to say how far such experiences vary systematically according to gender , ethnicity or social class . |
| 8 | The government is now worried that its industry will suffer from unfair competition if other EEC countries do not have to fork out for the extra equipment necessary to reduce emissions . |
| 9 | A central idea of postmodernism is , therefore , that appearances do not correspond to reality ; reality in the above case being the actual emotions and feelings transmitted and interpreted . |
| 10 | The discharge of sewage from boats has also contributed to eutrophication problems in the region ( which is mainly due to runoff of fertilisers from adjacent arable land ) . |
| 11 | The offer 's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form . |
| 12 | The possibilities sketched above relate to emergency planning , the search for hazardous sites , and risk assessment . |
| 13 | Calorie-free fluids do not add to body fat , hinder weight loss or cause fluid retention in those of normal health . |
| 14 | Many hotel workers do n't belong to trade unions . |
| 15 | Great advances have been made in this technique because of the interest in skin grafting , and ibroblasts do not transform to cancer cells easily in culture . |
| 16 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 17 | But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns . |
| 18 | Even if things did n't go to plan , we 'd still have a useful resort property … |
| 19 | Prices came down in the street and as for having a purse snatched , well , such things did n't happen to army wives . |
| 20 | For one thing , you do n't get frustrated when things do n't go to plan . |
| 21 | Patients do not need to home monitor every day when their diabetes is stable but rather two or three days a week testing three or four times during the day . |
| 22 | Changes in manufacturing techniques did not lead to standardization and reduction of product lines . |
| 23 | The rhetoric of politicians was littered with idealistic assumptions , from the ‘ new thinking ’ of President Gorbachev to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's assertion that ‘ democracies do n't go to war with each other ’ . |
| 24 | So the dockers did not go to prison and the strikes were avoided . |
| 25 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 26 | Suppose , now , that the shed was clearly ban of everything and A's suspicions did not relate to theft in the shed . |
| 27 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 28 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |
| 29 | Imperial Fists do not succumb to frustration . |
| 30 | Plans for the reoccupation of Malaya were well advanced and some ships had already put to sea . |