Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 2 | The court can not be relied on to imply a term that the parties should co-operate in the appointment of a replacement : see 8.17.4 . |
| 3 | If it were absent , all transactors could be relied on to keep a promise to implement any decision to the best of their ability . |
| 4 | There was a ‘ secret list ’ of useful persons who could be relied on to keep an eye open for promising young men . |
| 5 | Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians . |
| 6 | Pugh goes on to paint a picture of an industry with a lot of technology on its hands and an unclear view of the future . |
| 7 | The narrator goes on to describe a puddle of water that " lay across the trail " . |
| 8 | It then goes on to describe a scheme for representing appearance through logical structure . |
| 9 | Leapor goes on to describe a woman married to a clergyman who is universally virtuous and ’ … |
| 10 | It then goes on to detail a number of joint initiatives covering the the country and all the G M B regions . |
| 11 | The ‘ type of lad ’ who once became an apprentice now goes on to take an engineering degree and is replaced at that qualification level by a different category of young person . |
| 12 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 13 | But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic . |
| 14 | She then goes on to read an account of a fight in Keith Waterhouse 's There Is a Happy Land ( 1957 ) and to talk about fights in general . |
| 15 | Mrs. X goes on to list a number of complaints . |
| 16 | She argues that they can constitute a new perspective for the social sciences and goes on to show a continuity with the anti-positivism and rejection of the knowing subject in structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to understanding . |
| 17 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 18 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 19 | He goes on to develop a theory of communicative action which focuses on the exchange of ideas and meanings in contrast to the exchange of goods . |
| 20 | It goes on to specify a duty to take action ‘ necessary or expedient … for the purpose of conserving , redistributing or otherwise augmenting water resources ’ and ‘ securing proper use of water resources ’ ( s.10 ) . |
| 21 | Chanan has questioned the basic analysis of national needs employed by the DES , as we have already mentioned ; he goes on to propose a curriculum based on personal values . |
| 22 | Reporters like Terry Lewis needed so little to go on to formulate a story ; he would n't even have to name Luke Calder , just make some veiled references to his identity that could be enough to discredit him . |
| 23 | I hasten to add however , that in my view that would not have materially altered her ability to go on to get a qualification and succeed in her chosen career . |
| 24 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 25 | Botswana , Malawi , Zambia and Zimbabwe have joined together to form an ivory marketing cartel . |
| 26 | Mistrust even more two leaves that have been joined together to fabricate a bifolium . |
| 27 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 28 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 29 | Mr Harris , who has chaired the board since 1990 and is a non-executive member of the South West Thames Regional Health Authority , said he was stepping down to allow a review of the accountability of the service . |
| 30 | The Movietone cameraman zoomed in to get a close-up of the notice being fixed in place , a glimpse for the screens of a thousand Odeons and Regals from Aberdeen to Penzance . |