Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 2 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 3 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |
| 4 | PETER Scudamore 's neighbour Nigel Twiston-Davies has got off to a tremendous start this season with 24 wins in the bag already . |
| 5 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 6 | TV Quick , the German interloper in the British TV listings market , has got off to a flying start . |
| 7 | Oxford University 's Matthew Syed has got off to a flying start in the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Italy , winning both his opening matches . |
| 8 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 9 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 10 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 11 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 12 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 13 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 14 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 15 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 16 | Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience . |
| 17 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 18 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 19 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 20 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
| 21 | If the hon. Gentleman wants a level playing field between Scotland and England , he will have to face up to a substantial drop in spending by central Government in Scotland . |
| 22 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 23 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 24 | This could in principle have occurred smoothly : as profitability slid down , accumulation could have declined gently to a sustainable rate . |
| 25 | In general , DATEC courses seem to have got off to a reasonable start in the art colleges . |
| 26 | The School appears to have got off to a flourishing start . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the company 's entry into the largely unchartered bagged sector with Strollers seems to have got off to a fair start . |
| 28 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 29 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 30 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |