Example sentences of "together [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 2 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 3 | In creating this ambitious organization and in writing its constitution , I envisaged a powerful group of Sinophiles and business men working together to promote a greater measure of trade between Canada and China . |
| 4 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 5 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 6 | On Saturday 9 November University musicians past and present will be joining together to perform a varied programme of Baroque music in aid of the Foundation ( see advertisement on page 43 for details ) . |
| 7 | I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum . |
| 8 | The size of the changes demands that all parts of the NHS ( at least in London ) pull together to provide a coordinated response . |
| 9 | Their letters and diaries have been threaded together to provide a fresh perspective on the lives of young airmen during times when their survival statistics were grim . |
| 10 | ABOVE The method of dating using tree-rings ( dendrochronology ) involves taking samples from timbers of different ages , and linking them together to provide an overall dating sequence . |
| 11 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 12 | There were times when every man of this team would come together to work a single major warren system which might extend over as much as 50 or 60 acres . |
| 13 | A synergistic effect is defined as two substances coming together to create a greater effect than the sum of the two could achieve separately . |
| 14 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 15 | To avoid the waste of pupil time which arises from duplication of teaching in differing phases of schooling when the gap itself creates discontinuity , a variety of organizations have been used by LEAs to make sure that primary and secondary schools make clear to each other , first , what is being provided and later , as achievements and the needs of learning change , to help them to plan together to create a complementary or continuous curriculum between the phases . |
| 16 | This total reverence to the group binds ideas of silence , loyalty , and reticence together to create a positive category for belief and action and , in turn , links silence to other concepts of respect for the order of the institution . |
| 17 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
| 18 | It is up to citizens working together to initiate a long term process of communication , mutual support and joint action . |
| 19 | Three police forces have joined together to buy a one and a half million pound helicopter . |
| 20 | Some friends have clubbed together to buy an old van and they think they are going to drive to India . |
| 21 | In these meetings , students come together to discuss a defined topic , whose main points are put forward by one of their own number ; the staff members who attend do so not to teach but to play a part in guiding the discussion . |
| 22 | We have about 140 international specialists in human gene mapping coming together to use a new data base system developed at the John Hopkins university in collaboration with people in London at the I C R F Labs and that data base will provide information on all those genes we have already identified and mapped . |
| 23 | Image processing techniques can be used to add the components together to form a composite image of the rock and to measure the proportions of the various minerals . |
| 24 | Simultaneous with this is the trend toward control of companies through minority shareholdings ; holders of minority stakes ( including individuals , financial institutions and other companies ) can potentially band together to form a controlling ‘ constellation of interests ’ . |
| 25 | The story of Elton John meeting his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin through a small ad in Melody Maker is one of the music industry 's most famous legends , but the chances of two developing talents — a music writer and a lyricist — being brought together to form a successful partnership are n't good . |
| 26 | Mix all the ingredients together to form a firm paste . |
| 27 | The building blocks have n't come together to form a self-replicating chain like RNA . |
| 28 | The characteristics of these adjectives correspond to occurrence in the underlined position of the structure in ( 21 ) where the verb and the adjective are immediately bound together to form a complex property-nucleus which then enters into construction with the object : ( 21 ) |
| 29 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
| 30 | There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life , often personified by children . |