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

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1 Only goes up to a certain height .
2 A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant .
3 The clubface effortlessly squares up to the ball-to-target line for a straight ball flight .
4 Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons .
5 When a black hole is created by gravitational collapse , it rapidly settles down to a stationary state that is characterized by only three parameters : the mass , the angular momentum , and the electric charge .
6 This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention .
7 Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate .
8 Clements Farm is of great antiquity , the building itself probably dates back to the 15th century , and happily has been boarded up to prevent more deterioration .
9 The practice of abortion probably dates back to the earliest human societies .
10 This old farmhouse resting in the village of Raskelf ( the name means ‘ the shelf of the roe deer ’ ) , probably dates back to the 18th century .
11 Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that .
12 This now goes back to the ordinary grants money .
13 The light now dies down to a mere flicker of ‘ fire ’ , appropriate enough considering the onslaught of death imagery with ‘ death-bed ’ , ‘ ashes ’ , ‘ expire ’ and perhaps , again , ‘ consumed ’ .
14 ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . )
15 It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces .
16 It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces .
17 The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level .
18 Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent .
19 The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly .
20 Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) .
21 In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur .
22 The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus .
23 ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop .
24 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 .
25 Your vessel then heads on to the wonderful wine town of Rüdesheim , arriving around 6.30pm .
26 I never imagined myself doing anything but acting , ’ she says with a wide grin and then breaks in to a quick burst of singing : ‘ There 's no business like show business … ’
27 This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor .
28 As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again .
29 Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) .
30 For instance , a manufacturer may sell defective goods which the buyer then sells on to a third party who suffers loss or injury because of the defect .
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