Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 2 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 3 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 4 | The Doctor had fallen on to plush green grass . |
| 5 | She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’ |
| 6 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 7 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 8 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 9 | But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations . |
| 10 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 11 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 12 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |
| 13 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 14 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 15 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 16 | Eleven by-elections are unlikely in the next few months — but if his majority is whittled down to five or six , he may call another election before too long . |
| 17 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 18 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 19 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 20 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 21 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 22 | Manufacturing industry is now expected to grow by 1.6 per cent this year , against only 0.5 per cent last November , but the forecast for 1994 has been revised down to 2.8 per cent from 3.1 per cent . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman always gives in to lobbies and should not have given in to that one . |
| 24 | Having prohibited party politics on the grounds that it fostered corruption , patronage and tribalism , Rawlings had finally given in to domestic and international pressure for a return to multiparty politics . |
| 25 | Now various versions of Unix have been boiled down to two : one from the Open Systems Foundation , a consortium that includes IBM , Hewlett Packard and DEC , and one from Unix International , a consortium involving AT&T and Sun Microsystems . |
| 26 | The dispute boiled down to two main anatomical points . |
| 27 | The main recommendations of the Obair Report boiled down to two things . |
| 28 | The options boiled down to two : expand or die . |
| 29 | Military organizations possess hierarchical structures ; senior officers at the apex of a pyramid issue commands which are relayed down to those who are obliged to carry them out . |
| 30 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |