Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 2 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 3 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 4 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 5 | With the help of counsellors , residents here prepare to go back to a normal life … without drink . |
| 6 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 7 | You 've got off to a good start , Deirdra , so keep writing — and reading ! |
| 8 | They 've got off to a good start with a pair of eighteen carat gold and turquoise earrings donated by the Elizabeth Gage company of London . |
| 9 | Companies do not , always , on the basis of existing collaboration , wish to move directly to a purpose-built building . |
| 10 | We have referred earlier to a third interpretation of normalisation which we see as being in line with the spirit of much that has been written , particularly in the earlier days . |
| 11 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 12 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 13 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 14 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 15 | Marketers in the Anglo-Saxon cultures have moved closer to a pan-European approach than their Latin counterparts , the survey adds . |
| 16 | It will also rekindle suspicions among the Euro-sceptical wing of the Tory Party that the MEPs , led by Sir Christopher Prout , have sold out to a new brand of Euro-federalism , redolent of continental social and industrial consensus politics . |
| 17 | A small number of cooperatives and self-managed enterprises have got off to a good start . |
| 18 | WITTON Gilbert WMC members have got off to a good start with their appeal to provide two guide dogs for the blind . |
| 19 | ‘ Esop fable ’ ( May ) correctly suggests that employee share ownership plans have got off to a slow start . |
| 20 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 21 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 22 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 23 | All of these activities have led naturally to a clearer and more exact description of the geometry involved in the generation of any individual component or assembly . |
| 24 | ‘ That accident could have happened to anyone — male or female , ’ Sophie said , ‘ and all vets have to face up to a certain amount of danger . ’ |
| 25 | We need to get off to a good start in the league . |
| 26 | The communist regime that finally fell from power last week was , in many respects , a repetition of Amanullah on a grander , and far bloodier , scale : the war provoked by the 1978 ‘ revolution ’ , and the reaction to it have left up to a million dead , a third of the 16-million population displaced . |