Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 2 | In fact , by the year 2000 the number of school leavers will not have returned to the 1970 level and is predicted to continue to fall to an all-time low in 1993/4(2) . |
| 3 | From the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the educated élite became exposed to a heady concoction of western romantic , Idealist , and socialist ideas . |
| 4 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 5 | ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious . |
| 6 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
| 7 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
| 8 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 9 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
| 10 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 11 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 13 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
| 14 | I do n't think so she 's erm slow , she 's , she 's like erm , she has to go to a special school |
| 15 | From these studies we 've developed criteria to identify who needs to go to a coronary care unit and who does n't . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S trade deficit has soared to a seven-month high , partly due to the pound 's devaluation . |
| 17 | Harris argues , however , that a van like a Transit has to appeal to a wide cross-section of operators , and that means the design has to be a compromise . |
| 18 | Laura Levine has pointed to an interesting relationship in early modern England between fears of sodomy and fears of the theatre . |
| 19 | Most European private placements belong to one of two categories : securities designed to appeal to a small group of investors , and those tailored to suit a particular issuer . |
| 20 | It was to be politically left , but above all popular , and designed to appeal to a big readership . |
| 21 | Who wants to go to a poxy fucking disco anyway it 's crap |
| 22 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 23 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 24 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
| 25 | But it will get even worse next year as borrowing is expected to soar to an astonishing £44 billion . |
| 26 | Teachers and other educationalists can not be expected to come to an adequate understanding of recent trends in multicultural and anti-racist education , nor can they develop an independent critical judgement on recent controversies in this area , without some grasp of the deeper structural and ideological issues that underlie the racial dimension in education , politics and the economy . |
| 27 | These appear to relate to an earlier phase of ocean spreading during late Triassic times , and were carried to their present positions in nappes formed during the Cretaceous , as in eastern Europe . |
| 28 | The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes . |
| 29 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
| 30 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |