Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It examines the conditions under which a voting equilibrium exists ; and then goes on to representative democracy . |
| 2 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 3 | The industry contributes widely to academic research . |
| 4 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 5 | What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal . |
| 6 | Recall that constructivism refers only to mental representations at the level of the input systems , as entities which can be translated , more or less directly , into the language of neuropsychology . |
| 7 | Bourdillon 's figure for this was ‘ the annual provision of not less than 250 volumes for lending and reference purposes per thousand population ’ , but the figure is not as uncomplicated as it seems , since it refers only to new books and not to stock revision ( for which no standard was given ) . |
| 8 | Though the Laffer curve strictly refers only to overall tax level , and not that for any particular tax . |
| 9 | Customs state , in their official publication , Single Market Report ( Special Edition , Christmas 1992 ) , that amendments to the draft regulations make it clear that the register refers only to temporary movements , ie for a period not longer than two years . |
| 10 | As this has been achieved with a style of football that owes little to romantic idealism , Charlton is not in trouble-free waters although even his most vigorous detractors are now inclined to take a pragmatic stance , appeased by success and forced to accept his widespread popularity . |
| 11 | Profile reveals that new Polo owes much to old car ; driving position good , as is rear entry with low lip ; GT engine gives 75bhp |
| 12 | This corresponds more to economic arithmetic than to economic analysis , and more sophisticated approaches look to evaluation by reference to the tools developed in chapter 6 on cost-benefit analysis . |
| 13 | The same might be said of Neville Brody whose typography for The Face owes more to computer-operated typesetting than to calligraphy . |
| 14 | The assumption that all past societies were well adapted to their environments — noble savages in the garden of Eden — owes more to late 20th century wishful thinking than to reality . |
| 15 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 16 | Late twentieth-century work design owes more to scientific management than to Herzberg or Emery . |
| 17 | ‘ All I wanted to say was — her life is devoted to serving and servicing others — and the book shows that by playing that role that that role adds more to human happiness and richness than anything else . |
| 18 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 19 | It adds up to unbeatable value . |
| 20 | ‘ Good resettlement adds up to good recruitment . ’ |
| 21 | If the muck heap is miles away it all adds up to precious minutes when you 're doing your horse before going to work . |
| 22 | This all adds up to huge difficulties in providing for the population . |
| 23 | Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) . |
| 24 | Whatever you choose it all adds up to luxury glamour , romance , elegance , and Citalia . |
| 25 | Ellison 's role with swing and seam may be crucial and it must be earnestly hoped that his back , the source of trouble in the past , holds up to increased demands . |
| 26 | This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny . |
| 27 | The chief redeeming feature of tourism is that it adheres strictly to preordained patterns . |
| 28 | ‘ Reader ’ corresponds to Full Professor in North American usage while Lecturer corresponds roughly to Associate Professor . ) |
| 29 | TANDY HEADS BACK TO INTERNATIONAL ARENA |
| 30 | As his lexicography has shown , Dr Burchfield is ready to acknowledge change but holds fast to certain rules on the grounds of avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities . |