Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A farmer looking to diversify has turned to a favourite crop of his French counterparts . |
| 2 | Although most of the work reported in the literature has examined chaining to a separate overflow area , this is not the most effective way of using chaining . |
| 3 | Mr William Purves , the bank 's chairman since 1987 , has decided to stick to a strategy developed in the late 1970s . |
| 4 | Imagine a millionaire who has decided to donate to a charity . |
| 5 | Mr William Farley , who acquired a slew of manufacturing companies with junk-bond financing arranged by Drexel , has had to resort to a bridging loan from banks to finance his acquisition of West Point-Pepperell , a textile giant . |
| 6 | In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto . |
| 7 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 8 | This stupid rivalry has got to come to an end . ’ |
| 9 | At the moment , the ‘ war ’ has become distilled to a hunt for Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha , two of the heads of the Medellin cartel . |
| 10 | From March 1992 all bottles of acids will come with the proven ‘ safe-break ’ plastic coating , designed to keep splashing to a minimum if the bottle is dropped or broken . |
| 11 | The colour co-ordinated hotplate has been designed to keep cleaning to a minimum . |
| 12 | The Foreign Ministers signed an accord granting approximately US$53,000,000 in immediate EC aid ( which was expected to have risen to a total of approximately $147,000,000 by 1993 ) to help reactivate Central American trade as a means to strengthen the region 's current peace initiatives . |
| 13 | Moreover , changes in the way that tickets are distributed for big rugby matches at Twickenham appear to have led to an increase in the number of rowdies . |
| 14 | A person who has learned to jump to a red light may generalise that learning and jump when any coloured light is flashed . |
| 15 | Moreover , accounting fees that even the smallest bank has to face amount to a considerable additional cost . |
| 16 | Tanay was subsequently reported to have returned to a mujaheddin-occupied area of Afghanistan . |
| 17 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 18 | The economic crisis and in particular the slump produced lower totals for the next two years , but by 1939 , the number of holidays booked had risen to a substantial 62,500 , comprising 29,500 holiday-makers travelling overseas , and 33,000 taking home bookings . |
| 19 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 20 | If the procedure has failed to run to a successful completion , Computer Services will enter this fact in the COMMENTS section of the form . |
| 21 | The accusation , ‘ that person has no conscience ’ , carries a condemnation of character , but the real culprit is the society which has failed to raise to a position of the utmost importance in the public mind , the fact that the human conscience is the very rock-bottom foundation on which civilisation rests . |
| 22 | Most religions , Christianity among them , would appear to have degenerated to a point where they can be used to provide , at one extreme , a justification for intense civil turmoil by violent and cruel people , and at the other , justification for luxurious globe-trotting and conference-attending by a ritual-ridden and pomp-loving hierarchy . |
| 23 | Despite the reward and an extensive search of the area police enquiries seemed to have come to a halt . |
| 24 | Undomesticated dogs , like many other wild animals , do not expect to eat according to a rigid schedule . |
| 25 | But he 'd managed to get to a phone near the toilets in the operations centre . |
| 26 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 27 | The Council says that Bonsai World might like to consider moving to a more suitable site . |
| 28 | I was going to get beaten to a pulp . |
| 29 | Bolger claimed success for Richardson 's strategy when in mid-1991 the inflation rate was shown to have fallen to a 25-year low of 2.8 per cent , compared with 7.6 per cent a year earlier . |
| 30 | This may seem surprising since the Bail Act is thought to have contributed to a fall in both the actual and proportionate use of custodial remands . |