Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist Party certainly thought , I mean the reason wh one of their justifications for preserving the rich peasant economy was that how that it 's thought the middle peasants would want to try to rise up to br |
| 2 | Despite the publicity given to deforestation of the tropics , such land-use changes are expected to continue to contribute less to annual carbon emissions than those from fossil-fuel burning . |
| 3 | The Courts ruled as to what was acceptable conduct , and the knights were expected to try to live up to these high standards , not only honouring their women but acting chastely towards them . |
| 4 | ‘ Now she feels the time has come to hand over to someone else . |
| 5 | Mr Wood has helped to nurse back to health badgers injured on the road or found orphaned but he has never come across one which has been used for baiting . |
| 6 | The company has had to go back to its pre-poll tax database , known as the Historic Voters Roll . |
| 7 | That 's why Alex has had to go back to London |
| 8 | The buyer can include in his claim for damages , the amount of the damages he has had to pay out to his sub-purchaser for breach of contract , see Godley v. Perry ( paragraph 9–05 above ) . |
| 9 | The British surf scene has had to look back to its roots , to the old school , and the philosophy of the Badlands boys has returned to vogue . |
| 10 | THE FAMILY of Arthur Thompson , sen , has had to face up to many tragedies . |
| 11 | But Pound 's speaker , so far from naïve , has had to struggle through to that desired but unfamiliar nakedness ; and Pound 's verse enacts the struggle . |
| 12 | AEG has had to hand over to Deutsche Aerospace its lucrative aerospace and defence division , its second-largest unit . |
| 13 | Richmondshire District Council 's recreation committee has agreed to give up to £100 to urgent repairs being carried out at the memorial hall , Middleton Tyas , near Richmond . |
| 14 | Mirror Group has agreed to use up to £300 million of its profits over the next 10 to 20 years so that the pension fund , plundered by Mr Robert Maxwell , will be able to meet all its liabilities . |
| 15 | Exxon Corporation , the multi-national oil giant , has agreed to pay up to $1,100 million ( $1.1 billion ) in an out of court settlement over the 1989 Valdez oil spill . |
| 16 | The Association has agreed to revert back to Management . |
| 17 | Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry . |
| 18 | So far I have discussed the different criminologies of the previous two centuries with little reference to the problem of the concept of ‘ crime ’ itself : Worse , I have sometimes used ‘ crime ’ and ‘ deviance ’ interchangeably — though I hope I have only done this where the argument has happened to apply equally to both . |
| 19 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 20 | This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death . |
| 21 | The postal service in Oxfordshire has begun to get back to normal today , but not all postal workers are back , despite yesterday 's vote . |
| 22 | The problems stem from a high cost structure and an ambitious move into management consultancy that has failed to live up to expectations . |
| 23 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 24 | Yet , so far , the Clinton administration has failed to reach out to Republicans . |
| 25 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 26 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 27 | That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost . |
| 28 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 29 | Audiences will feel compelled to hum along to the popular old tunes such as ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ . |
| 30 | The State Department noted that a weakened Britain , with no immediate restoration of the balance of power in Europe in prospect , might feel compelled to look initially to the United Nations ( UN ) for help in the defence of her interests . |