Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results indicate that index futures appear to conform to a general pattern of leptokurtosis . |
| 2 | Having said that , the question of to whom the resource should be provided must be addressed , and here I propose to generalise to a large extent , though initially to make reference to the local situation . |
| 3 | Secondly , if you want to move to a certain subdirectory . |
| 4 | The incident happened between 1.30 and 2.40 on Saturday afternoon ; police want to speak to a young man seen on a pedal cycle in the area at the time . |
| 5 | This was the cause of his deafness , which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics . |
| 6 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 7 | The great achievements of the seventeenth century seem to testify to a new independence of scientific inquiry . |
| 8 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 9 | The Office 's constitution changed in 1877 , control passing to a Meteorological Council . |
| 10 | Too few libraries train according to a pre-arranged plan and many are not only unable to justify the methods used for the processes taught but may actually be unaware of what these methods and processes are . |
| 11 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 12 | Here Rousseau himself demonstrates in his oscillating interpretations a history that can not be linear , nor operate according to a single temporality , disturbing instead , the time of the line or the line of time ’ : |
| 13 | In Denmark , opinion polls continue to point to a sizeable majority in favour of the revised treaty in the referendum on 18 May . |
| 14 | Patients undergoing surgery sometimes find talking to a spiritual counsellor provides psychological comfort , even if they do not usually practise a religion . |
| 15 | When children start school , they often develop all kinds of minor illnesses as they first become exposed to a large community ; a fact the nurse seeking her first employment after the birth of her child may not know . |
| 16 | Try climbing to a higher altitude . |
| 17 | It 's just a place people go to listen to a little music , you know ? |
| 18 | Try to keep to a regular timetable of waking and sleeping . |
| 19 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |
| 20 | Loosely used in practice , these concepts , as they enter academia , become subjected to a concerted effort to force them to lie down and behave , to render them properly scientific . |
| 21 | If you do go to a second investment advisor and John may well advise to do so . |
| 22 | That first tour did a lot to make the rest of the tours tremendously successful because , with all things like that , if you do play to a small group of people and you still do a great show , then by word of mouth the word spreads how wonderful you were , even though it was n't packed . |
| 23 | For example , his work on the death instincts in Beyond the Pleasure Principle is based on the assumption that he needs to show that all organisms , including mankind , aim to return to a tensionless state of inorganic matter . |
| 24 | If you intend to move to a new area to take up employment it is wise to do some homework on local factors affecting recruitment . |
| 25 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 26 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 27 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 28 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |
| 29 | Whether the rias or estuaries persist depends to a considerable extent on their depth and on the amount of alluvium being brought into them by inflowing rivers . |
| 30 | we 've moved to a bigger home , fucking scaled it up |