Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much easier to get good marks on a short answer question than it is in theory to but most people do n't because they do n't apply the correct technique so to writing short answers . |
| 2 | Considerable opposition in to setting up Trusts . |
| 3 | The nineteen charges read out to Mr How cover fraud , deception and theft through to running an unautherised investment business . |
| 4 | What is more , they have said that there is a good deal more to noticing that things are white , and calling them ‘ white ’ , than one would suppose . |
| 5 | But , in the days of computer simulations , it surely makes little sense to crank the whole military-industrial complex up to producing a great fleet of YF-22s . |
| 6 | That there 's an attempt here to trying to save as many of those jobs as possible and I do n't take the insurances of the gone through the system now , but exactly true you 're saying that it is . |
| 7 | He just did n't seem able to put his mind fully to practising . |
| 8 | And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings . |
| 9 | The half day per month allocated to every worker for reading is second only to interviewing . |
| 10 | Since he started them and put so much effort and endless work in to running them , these events have raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 11 | The run up to calving may coincide with very low food intakes leading to low birth weights ( undersized offspring have lower survival rates ) , low milk output of low quality and low mothering drives . |
| 12 | There is a limit of course to how many guests and visits the store management can accommodate during that frantic run up to opening morning . |
| 13 | Should he not turn his attention vigorously to sorting out the common agricultural policy , which is endangering the Uruguay round and remains a serious blot which is totally inconsistent with the sort of policies that are embodied in the new treaty ? |
| 14 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 15 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 16 | This option is now available to them — and of course also to hearing mothers using the unit . |
| 17 | For example , in a narrow town or terrace house where the front door opens directly into a corridor-like space , you could either take the wall down altogether , or make an arch going into the living room , or take the wall down to seating level , literally making a seating ledge . |
| 18 | BRIAN CLOUGH was last night close to persuading Scot Gemmill to sign a new long-term contract with Nottingham Forest . |
| 19 | SERBIAN forces were last night close to winning the battle for the Muslim-held town of Visegrad , intensifying the land-snatch offensive which has shattered the ceasefire in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 20 | Nicholas Dodman , 34 , of Wynstay Lane , Wrexham , pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court yesterday to receiving part of the proceeds of a £14,500 haul from a burglary at a Victoria Wines off licence in Deeside . |
| 21 | Ian Potter , 21 , unemployed , of Ascot Drive , pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday to possessing the drug with intent to supply . |
| 22 | So if they 're going to christen you Walter they 'd better put a couple of names in front of it , one for your spell in the pram plus another for the long haul up to becoming Walter . |
| 23 | In the early 1960s , it became fashionable to criticize British institutions and to say that this country was lagging behind its European competitors in many aspects of modern life from trade union structure to central heating , from the capacity to sell and provide after-sales service abroad to playing football . |
| 24 | Wire ace close to losing an eye |
| 25 | BSB has its satellite in space but is not on the air , and Murdoch laid claim yesterday to reaching only 509,000 households in Britain . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , hermeneutics is not committed in advance either to understanding rules in terms of actions or to understanding actions in terms of rules . |
| 27 | I would now like to reiterate and elaborate the several points which I have raised so far , and then finally bring my argument round to demonstrating the link which exists between circumcision and menstrual/childbirth taboos . |
| 28 | Radically different manual practices , directed to radically different human senses ( over a range , for example , from sight alone to hearing alone ) , are presumptively encompassed by this single general category . |
| 29 | David , who received his award from Jonathan Paul , the chairman of the newly-merged company , puts his success down to making better silage and improving the utilisation of grass on his 100-acre farm . |
| 30 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |