Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 2 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 3 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 4 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 5 | ‘ If Graham Taylor wants to learn how to be a manager , tell him to come and see me . ’ |
| 6 | There is no reason to suppose that the average Victorian member of the middle class , lower middle class or ‘ respectable ’ working class in , say , Victorian England and the United States failed to live up to his or her standards of sexual morality . |
| 7 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 8 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |
| 9 | David agreed to talk both to Sheilah about the role of Church of Scotland Education Committees in this regard , and to Celia Matthews about the Scottish Episcopal Church 's Diocesan Education Committees . |
| 10 | It is this message that members of the newly-formed west Suffolk Zipper Club want to get across to people who face the agonising prospect of such a serious operation . |
| 11 | The only bright spot that LDDC has to look forward to — following a downturn in its profits this year — is the hope that the Department of the Environment will leave Westminster 's Marsham Street for Docklands in the near future . |
| 12 | When a cut has to extend up to a wall , for example , the sole plate can be moved back , out of the way , by turning just one central screw . |
| 13 | The granule is dissolved in forty , thirty , twenty , fifteen or eight tablespoons of water with the addition of a little alcohol to preserve it ; 10% is a good guide for solutions designed to last up to two months . |
| 14 | ‘ We therefore expect widespread interest from a variety of types of companies looking to relocate in a town with the high quality of life Southport has to offer particularly to the golf enthusiast . ’ |
| 15 | This is a this is a paradox that Freud has to face up to . |
| 16 | His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too . |
| 17 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
| 18 | Libyans seemed to listen most to broadcasts from Libya , Cairo , Tel Aviv , Saudi Arabia , London , Monte Carlo and Kuwait . |
| 19 | He gave his departmental heads time to get back to their offices before he rang for Hilary Robarts and asked her to come back . |
| 20 | In fact anti-racism and anti-sexism seem to come naturally to the Ahlbergs . |
| 21 | The visible temple remains at Zakro seem to belong entirely to the New Temple Period . |
| 22 | In this area a seif-like dune forms , but away from the shelter of the cliff the influence of the prevalent wind is again felt and the seif-like dune tends to break down to isolated mounds and finally to barchans . |
| 23 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 24 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 25 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 26 | This perception seems to come closer to providing an explanation for sex-differentiation in language than explanations based on prestige . |
| 27 | All UUUC candidates undertook to respond solely to their own parliamentary whip if elected . |
| 28 | Five years later the 1,100-member club decided to move back to Duke Street . |
| 29 | As Balinese ethnography has often been invoked , with questionable accuracy , in recent theoretical argument , the research aims to contribute both to this discussion and to our more general understanding of the effects of development and of incorporation within a new nation state on indigenous populations . |
| 30 | During the 28-Day Programme try to stick strictly to the menus listed within the diet . |