Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 2 | In next field keep well to left of trees ahead by bearing quarter left ( soon fence away to right comes into view ) . |
| 3 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 4 | Say no to meat and two veg |
| 5 | One important assumption of the modernity/postmodernity controversies is that the political left of Marxists and critical Theorists is aligned with the modernists , whereas those ( especially French-influenced poststructuralists ) who connect somehow to postmodernism are apolitical and have little concern with contemporaneous social struggles . |
| 6 | They do n't like it too hot in summer and they react badly to over-watering . |
| 7 | Always choose material mature enough to condition well . |
| 8 | They 're a people who succumb easily to exploitation . |
| 9 | We cut away to business with Leonard . |
| 10 | Trees and the treasury : Valuing Forests for Society argues that a history of subsidised conifer plantations has left timber growers with a surplus of mature trees which cost more to fell and process than they earn as timber . |
| 11 | Much of the east coast of England is formed of Pleistocene deposits which yield rapidly to wave action provided that they are not protected by natural constructional forms or by artificial defences , such as breakwaters and groynes . |
| 12 | She had trained them to hold hands , walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers . |
| 13 | On the Grand Canal with bream and rudd mainly to pole and maggot . |
| 14 | Like other primates , humans crave sweet things — the tip of our tongue is specially equipped with thousands of tiny taste buds which react strongly to sweetness . |
| 15 | Welcome again to Circuit Surgery , our regular clinic for readers ' problems . |
| 16 | It is the alternative recommendation that we put forward to housing committee last week . |
| 17 | For this reason , we will not attempt an international analysis but focus closer to home on the situation in UK schools . |
| 18 | But König 's interest in schools spread predictably to provision for handicapped people beyond school age . |
| 19 | Topstitch close to fold . |
| 20 | Animals lose home to lego |
| 21 | The countries that give most to drug import support tie purchase to their own country . |
| 22 | The thousands of redundancies , in the cause of ‘ economies ’ , owe most to government insistence on having 25 per cent of programmes farmed out to private enterprise with its higher regard for profit than for human dignity . |
| 23 | These results owe less to diversification of any kind than to capital gains in the market for corporate control . |
| 24 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |
| 25 | The UN 's predictions of famine owe more to art than science . |
| 26 | The twenty ( or thirty ) thousand Cornishmen crossing the Tamar hand in hand and advancing on London owe more to legend and the stirring song than to history . |
| 27 | One of the most interesting things about the recent history of curriculum development and in-service education and training is that most strategies owe more to argument than empirical evidence . |
| 28 | To ensure that it earns maximum profit , the firm must only employ workers who add more to revenue than to cost . |
| 29 | Both men stand stiffly to attention , and give the traditional Japanese jerky bow to each other . |
| 30 | the very existence of any examination at 16+ ( whether GCE , CSE or a unified examination or examination system ) as opposed to a series of assessments at the right stage of development for the individual pupil is questionable because firstly sixteen has already ceased to be the date for leaving education for the majority of pupils , secondly employers look increasingly to school recommendations , college course experience , and examination expectations rather than evidence of ‘ O ’ Level/CSE achievements , and thirdly the Universities and Higher Education look for and stipulate ‘ A ’ Level achievements rather than ‘ O ’ Level evidence . |