Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule . |
| 2 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 3 | Those parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united as an association of freely trading and co-operating independent states must take advantage of this breathing-space to gather together to form a common front . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The question was whether , in the harsher climate of the late 1970s and early 1980s , the fragments could be welded together to form a new force in British politics . |
| 6 | Profiled foam is layered and permanently welded together to form a very expensive block of media which Cyprio claim is four to five times more effective at filtration than Flocor and their own Cypripack . |
| 7 | Although ignimbrites can be unconsolidated deposits , the pyroclasts are frequently so hot when deposited that the contained gas is expelled and the individual particles are welded together to form a compact , impervious rock . |
| 8 | Mistrust even more two leaves that have been joined together to fabricate a bifolium . |
| 9 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 10 | Three police forces have joined together to buy a one and a half million pound helicopter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 13 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 14 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 15 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 16 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 17 | The three different unit sizes can be arranged together to form a natural stone effect . |
| 18 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 19 | Children 's drawings and posters pile up with books and cups of coffee in the relaxed , completely family-orientated interior , and every time she found somewhere to put a newly ironed outfit , you could be sure one of the three cats would jump onto it , curl up and fall asleep . |
| 20 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 21 | In one case the doctor 's name appeared in a promotional brochure as medical adviser to a company marketing an electrical device that was claimed successfully to treat a range of conditions including migraine , arthritis , insomnia , and depression . |
| 22 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 23 | The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial . |
| 24 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 25 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 26 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 27 | But they could be expected especially to move a religious audience committed to a divine order comprehending all men . |
| 28 | Of course it is considered better to have a boy , but the birth of a girl is celebrated with the same joy by the women in the family . |
| 29 | From a boat it can be squeezed enough to get a grip on it , and when it hits the water it sinks in a big brown cloud . |
| 30 | Emmenthal and Gruyère are mixed together to make a Swiss cheese fondue . |