Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discourse analyst , with his ‘ ordinary language ’ data , is committed to quite a different view of the rule-governed aspects of a language . |
| 2 | In the above excluded instances the MAS team will remain an important member of the client 's team , acting as a catalyst/manager of the process , but the lead role as far as the public are concerned would fall to either a merchant bank or stockbroker with suitable experience in the public arena . |
| 3 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 4 | New compact five-speed manual and four-speed automatic gearboxes are mated to either a 135bhp multivalve 2-litre engine or the smooth and powerful 170bhp 3-litre V6 unit . |
| 5 | He spent the first 12 months of his Hobart House reign in obscurity , in spite of repeated leaked reports suggesting the number of British mines was set to tumble to around a dozen . |
| 6 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 7 | Prior to the 1960s , Soviet economic relations with Latin America were highly sporadic , unstable and confined to only a few countries , principally Argentina and Uruguay . |
| 8 | After playing through figs 5 and 6 it is a good idea to record some major or ‘ 5 ’ ♯4/♯11 chords such as those in fig 4 ( resolved to either a sus4 or the major on the same root ) and put in some time improvising over them to familiarise yourself with the sound and feel of the scale . |
| 9 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 10 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 11 | Goosebumps coarsened his sleek skin , and he tried to still a trembling in his limbs . |
| 12 | In 1907 local cooperative branches were petitioned to forward a resolution to congress in support of the women 's franchise . |
| 13 | As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary . |
| 14 | This was done to only a very limited extent in the UK in 1988/89 ( Huhne 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 16 | By the early part of the 19th century , the business had grown to quite a sizeable concern , and consisted of scribbling and burling shops , wool lofts , a dye house , as well as a rack teaze and Webb 's substantial home . |
| 17 | Cousin in 1 can , of course , refer to either a male or a female cousin . |
| 18 | The Software Status Report ( SSR ) must refer to either a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) or to a valid module . |
| 19 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 20 | You seemed to rather a lot for her . |
| 21 | Further improvements could be made to either a tree or a trie structure by using a method of tail end compression ( section 3.2.5 ) . |
| 22 | A communication is protected if it is made to further a common interest — a circular published to shareholders in a company , or to fellow members of a trade union , or an inter-office memorandum . |
| 23 | He did that at the Hope ( Close : He improved three times , but would have had to better a 63 to do it every round — 76-68-67-63-69 ) . |
| 24 | But although the educational services were supplied to only a few inmates , several of these were undertaking advanced work : three had completed BAs over the past few years , another an MA , and nine were embarking upon university degrees by correspondence . |
| 25 | When safe levels are attained consistently you may reduce the frequency of testing to once a week . |
| 26 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 27 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |
| 28 | Alternatively , reliance may be placed on the common law , alleging that the odour amounts to either a private or public nuisance at law . |
| 29 | And er , if and when it 's published , there will be millions of words , I mean there are now , and I do n't how large it is now , it 's impossible to tell how large , erm , but just a couple of years , for example , amounts to over a quarter of a million words , so if you run that back to nineteen sixty nine , you see it is going to be one of the largest books ever written . |
| 30 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |