Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 2 | The main recommendations of the Obair Report boiled down to two things . |
| 3 | To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you . |
| 4 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 5 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 6 | The band 's popularity is down to many things ; a mega line-up that can muster three fiddle players , a flute hero in Frankie Kennedy , and some brill , floaty singing from Maread Ni Mhaonaigh . |
| 7 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 8 | These moves would not disgrace a HVS climb were it not for the fact that two sets of in situ threads protect them perfectly : a good testing ground to see if you are up to greater things . |
| 9 | There was no step up to higher things , but a system complete in itself under which poor children were to receive just that modicum of education which would enable them to become useful and content in their inevitable station as hewers of wood and drawers of water . |
| 10 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 11 | Easiest winner of the week was Cunning who looks set for a step up to better things . |
| 12 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 13 | Settlement ‘ I would have thought that they would have learned from the public ridicule of the last month and made certain that they did n't get up to these things again , ’ he told the Press Association . |
| 14 | MK 's controller can communicate with 32 peripheral devices ( either transmitters or receivers ) , and it can remember UP to 160 things it has to do every day , week or month . |
| 15 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 16 | I think how you do it is very is a very different matter , particularly when you still have very many schools , for example , who erm take the registers — going back to basic things . |
| 17 | You also need to develop a persuasive line of argument and we 'll come back to those things later on . |
| 18 | And we 're back to this thing that if you 're not interested in what you 've written , why do you think anybody else ought to be ? |
| 19 | ‘ It is a place for Freikultur , not what you call nudism but … a liberation of the body , a going back to natural things … |
| 20 | The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi , and , although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life ( in the vicinity of Brescia ) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel , which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan , Paris and London , it is a memorable picture , and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination . |
| 21 | ( Morley moved on to greater things as Britain 's leading rock journalist and then even greater things as the mentor behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood ) . |
| 22 | From this small beginning , Mr. Shipsey went on to greater things for we used to hear of his progress after the monthly meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters as both Dad and his friend were Past Chief Rangers . |
| 23 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 24 | And if memory serves ( what was she called , that girl who did the PR for Windscale , Sellafield I should say , and Aldershot FC ? ) , oh yes , Daphne Grierson , who has now moved on to greater things and is image adviser to Nigel Canada ( is that correct ? ) the teenage fiddle-player . |
| 25 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 26 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
| 27 | Alex Redpath and Willie Gribben , two workaholic officials , have traced all previous 20 programmes of the finals and have ear-marked a number of players who have gone on to greater things at international , inter-provincial and senior club level . |
| 28 | But of course Robert was right and the rider did go on to greater things . |
| 29 | We have brought pride back to Teesside and we want to go on to greater things . ’ |
| 30 | After spending some time , often years , with us , people move on to other things and we need to fill the gaps . ’ |