Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last they are released , they are positively maniacal , and gallop and buck around the paddock twice as much as usual before settling down to eating the grass . |
| 2 | For rich industrial nations , the problem of microelectronics and other new technologies boils down to managing the transition while many workers either change their employment , or join the ranks of the permanently unemployed . |
| 3 | What happens when it comes down to choosing the material you put on your albums ? |
| 4 | Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving . |
| 5 | But we almost got down to saying the other day that probably need to have an action plan or a structure for the pre-meeting as well . |
| 6 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 7 | Creating a country-style look in your home is not just down to selecting the appropriate paint colours and fabrics . |
| 8 | Interpreting taxonomic richness thus comes down to identifying the ways by which diversity has been decreased . |
| 9 | McGeechan puts that down to identifying the likely lads early and raising their sights to higher planes . |
| 10 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 11 | Too many women have been brain-washed for centuries in to accepting the old saying : 'A son 's a son till he gets him a wife , but a daughter 's a daughter all her life . ’ |
| 12 | Awareness of the possible truth of paradox is a most helpful way in to appreciating the nature of religious language as it wrestles to express experience . |
| 13 | A typical estimate of the amount of time necessary to complete all the stages — from the preparation of job descriptions and person specifications through to installing the expatriate in his new office abroad — is around four to six months . |
| 14 | If the story has gone through to printing the PRO 's stock will be even lower and he should not expect very good coverage in the future . |
| 15 | If support teachers are alert to the possibilities within their role , and allowed the flexibility to operate at the individual or whole-class level , then support for individual children can offer a way through to improving the quality of learning for all ( see , for example , Hodgson et al. |
| 16 | Proposals on these key determinants range from targets to improve overall literacy , employment , and housing through to describing the unequal health impact of the physical environment on different social groups . |
| 17 | Leapor often compliments other women in her poems , and two poems , ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ and ‘ Silvia and the Bee ’ , are given over to praising the beauty and the accomplishments of particular friends . |
| 18 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 19 | The manifestation of the sex beast in florid form does not happen very often in the media , but the coverage is consistently geared up to sponsoring the arrival of the sex fiend on the national scene . |
| 20 | I was certainly not up to breaking the law . |
| 21 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 22 | Many old people face up to accepting the necessity for admission to a residential home , on the basis of discussion within the family and advice from professional workers . |
| 23 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 24 | After hearing that he meant no disrespect , but had not felt emotionally and intellectually up to trying the case , Judge Robert Lymbery accepted Clarke was partly a ‘ victim of the system ’ . |
| 25 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 26 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 27 | The suspense in ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ is made by building up to seeing the pig from the squealing and trotting hoofs . |
| 28 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 29 | The ‘ Cornish Times ’ reported that ‘ the twin towns of East and West Looe gave themselves up to celebrating the auspicious event with popular rejoicing . |
| 30 | If you have such a machine that is n't up to running the sort of thing that you are interested in then why not pension it off to another user who needs to work with spreadsheets . |