Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 2 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 3 | It 's a cute wheeze that arguably owes more to Flann O'Brien ( the rebellion of the fictional characters in At Swim-Two-Birds ) than to James Joyce 's other literary heir . |
| 4 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 5 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 6 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 7 | The edition of Boswell 's Tour now generally available only refers obliquely to a lack of warmth , and to Boswell 's own ‘ spleen ’ while staying there — all this notwithstanding that the beautiful ( and pregnant ) Lady Macdonald was a cousin of Boswell 's . |
| 8 | Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm |
| 9 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 10 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 11 | that 's our home produce snakes and ladders it does n't go on too much , it only goes up to number thirty |
| 12 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 13 | The network apparently has still to be determined . |
| 14 | This obviously adds on to the cost of your basic computer but if you are a small business it is n't an enormous amount . |
| 15 | The chief motive which would naturally encourage Christian thinkers to look for such an alternative is that Lessing 's horizon necessarily scales down to merely relative and passing significance the events on which Christian faith itself depends — the history recorded and interpreted in the Bible , and in particular that of Jesus himself . |
| 16 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ But he so looks forward to the Bois . |
| 18 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 19 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 20 | Her daughter ( Jack 's Cousin ) runs our postroom at Rutherford here , and her garden literally backs on to mine . |
| 21 | This naturally applies also to specific medical words , and when they are used , the nurse may find it necessary to correct inaccuracies and add explanations . |
| 22 | A potentially confusing indefinite referring expression , a man armed with a bayonet , apparently relates back to the period before he was identified as ‘ a dissident Spanish priest ’ . |
| 23 | The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 . |
| 24 | The photographer 's glance alights on small details of foliage or suddenly sweeps upwards to the open sky . |
| 25 | It basically winds down to about ninety thousand words from each county . |
| 26 | Loans are intended to supplement finance obtained from other sources , and so the EIB only lends up to 40 per cent of the cost of fixed investments of a project with a minimum size of around £1 million . |
| 27 | Universal suffrage in Britain dates only from after the Great War and the right for non-property holders to participate in local elections only dates back to 1949 . |
| 28 | As the through neck naturally runs parallel to the body , the bridge and pickups all sit square , too , making for a concise and geometrically consistent look and feel . |
| 29 | Korn/Ferry perhaps appeals more to aggressive , fast-growth conglomerates than to old-fashioned , traditional companies . |
| 30 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |