Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 2 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 3 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 4 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 5 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've had to give out to the poor people in this town great quantities of bread and cheese today , and they 're still complaining . |
| 7 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 8 | Now , you 've got to get down to the real nitty gritty : how will the stage look , what about the sound system , who presses what buttons for the audio-visuals and when … ? |
| 9 | We 've got to get down to the nitty gritty and fight . ’ |
| 10 | It 's obvious with this training thing takes part you know , I 've got to move in to the grotty old school room in so . |
| 11 | Audiences will feel compelled to hum along to the popular old tunes such as ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ . |
| 12 | erm Students will be asked to report back to the next erm sub-committee |
| 13 | Here , while journalists strive earnestly to shed their previous role as mere mouthpieces of dictatorial regimes , they are forced to face up to the enormous financial difficulties involved in surviving in the market-place , without the comfortable support they formerly received from the state . ’ |
| 14 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 15 | If allowed to get through to the biological medium , dirt particles could clog it up , and possibly smother the bacterial colony . |
| 16 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 17 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 18 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 19 | If a pump is not already in use , clearly an extension cable , with a weatherproof connector , will be required to reach back to the nearest electric point . |
| 20 | Count 4 charged the offence of a bankrupt removing property contrary to section 354(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , and alleged that on or about 23 March 1988 the appellant removed property , namely his interest in funds held jointly by himself and his wife amounting to £104,356.55 , possession of which he would have been required to deliver up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |