Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting up a ‘ hearth ’ corresponds to setting up a home . |
| 2 | Could it be like just he has his eyes shut , he wants to going on in his head . |
| 3 | Our clothes also needed to cope with different activities , ranging from birdwatching to cliff walks and from windy boat trips to dining out in local restaurants . |
| 4 | The provision of £8.5 billion of grant aid hardly amounts to standing idly by . |
| 5 | At other times the loop amounts to going round in circles and not getting anywhere fast . |
| 6 | In some cases , this amounts to giving away PCs . |
| 7 | At the moment unc or ⅓ of the building is lit up , so if half of these are turned off then the problem really amounts to working out ½ of ⅓ |
| 8 | But while " worth " in a school or college is measured in terms of the advancement of learning and the personal development of the pupil or student , the awareness of what that amounts to comes only gradually . |
| 9 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 10 | This only applies to teaching so surely we should change it to whatever they want basically . |
| 11 | Well I do n't think it necessarily applies to opted out schools . |
| 12 | Although David Weatherall seems to maturing well his partner Jon Newsome appears to be unable to produce the goods consistently and against good strikers . |
| 13 | Seems to going longer does n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ This greater broad backed bookworm must be found before he encourages other animals to read those books he seems to devouring just now , ’ said laid back Rabbit . |
| 15 | Bloch 's work ( 1975 ) on political language and oratory , as we saw above ( p. 41 ) , provides evidence of ways in which speech is formalised in non-literate and in literate societies alike and is used for the functions which Goody attributes to writing alone . |
| 16 | This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you . |
| 17 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 18 | There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result . |
| 19 | You 've got to carry a little packet with you because who goes to said please can you put your condom on . |
| 20 | A further difficulty relates to defining precisely what does and does not constitute economic activity . |
| 21 | ‘ They do not want a fix but a resolution of the issues , that the Labour Party moves to becoming more democratic and an immediate resolution of the situation on Merseyside . |
| 22 | Comrade Springer tries to liven up the party |
| 23 | She confesses to thinking more now about her social life , and marriage and children do n't seem quite so remote from her dreams but her temporal desires remain on the backburner still , sacrificed for a higher purpose : the music and anyone who attempts to dig for a Máire , a Sinéad , or a Mary Couglan should be arrested for indecency . |
| 24 | Enter the same bend with a trailing throttle , however , and the story is quite different — the syncro system reverts to supplying only the front wheels as in normal driving . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , he admits to editing out one joke that created some controversy when it appeared in a promotional reel earlier this year . |
| 26 | For every Tiller that admits to sneaking out , two will insist that they stayed indoors every night . |
| 27 | First , Senna , the quickest racing driver in the World , admits to having one-to-one chats with The Man Upstairs . |
| 28 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 29 | Naturally , this supplied local bubble-brains with material for a whole week of wild rumour and exaggeration : believe me , when it comes to whipping up moralistic hysteria about something they knock full all about , daft nationalists are hard to beat . |
| 30 | When it comes to facing up to change the Tories are ruthless . |