Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now commands a market niche known as ‘ finite-risk insurance ’ , sold mostly to multinational companies . |
| 2 | Regular post natal classes were started by Kent County Council Health Department at Sidcup , KENT in 1943 on the recommendation of Dr. Anni Knoll ; it was here that Molly was persuaded to teach again in 1947 , starting the snowball which led eventually to nationwide representation . |
| 3 | According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted . |
| 4 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 5 | Such errors would not he passed on to future generations but would die out . |
| 6 | A similar course held at the beginning of the year in Brasov , attended by sixty people including teachers , nurses and doctors , was particularly encouraging as much of the material was , in turn , passed on to other colleagues for their use . |
| 7 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 8 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 10 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 11 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 12 | Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon … |
| 13 | Loans made perhaps to powerful men who refused to pay ? ’ |
| 14 | He said Mr Brazauskas 's programme amounted only to cosmetic changes . |
| 15 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 16 | But , even where there were legal improvements , enforcement was often limited and , given the nature of the labour market in Latin America , many workers remained outside the legal framework , which applied only to industrial workers . |
| 17 | It was concluded that bilateral speech representation applied only to strong left handers with left handed relatives . |
| 18 | At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform . |
| 19 | It was wound up in 1950 , as Europe moved on to other things . |
| 20 | Within four months , however , work had stopped on the reaction and the project moved on to other reactions . |
| 21 | They withdrew their support and Fawcett , whom they had seconded to the project , moved on to other research . |
| 22 | Unfairly , Sandra is still best known in Britain as ‘ Madonna 's best friend ’ , the possible — but in the end rather improbable — lesbian love interest that titillated the tabloids for a while until Maddy moved on to other mock shocks . |
| 23 | People smiled , and the conversation moved on to other things . |
| 24 | Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day . |
| 25 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 26 | The horse moved on to unsound ground , feeling the danger and scrabbling for a foothold . |
| 27 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 28 | The struggle to avoid the wrath of divine judgement on the nation and conviction that the crisis of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars both revealed God 's displeasure and offered an opportunity to vindicate the nation 's purity , contributed powerfully to substantial ideological coherence over the slave trade , embracing politically a range from the Toryism of James Stephen to the liberal wing of dissent . |
| 29 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 30 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |