Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united as an association of freely trading and co-operating independent states must take advantage of this breathing-space to gather together to form a common front . |
| 2 | To avoid the waste of pupil time which arises from duplication of teaching in differing phases of schooling when the gap itself creates discontinuity , a variety of organizations have been used by LEAs to make sure that primary and secondary schools make clear to each other , first , what is being provided and later , as achievements and the needs of learning change , to help them to plan together to create a complementary or continuous curriculum between the phases . |
| 3 | The question was whether , in the harsher climate of the late 1970s and early 1980s , the fragments could be welded together to form a new force in British politics . |
| 4 | Although ignimbrites can be unconsolidated deposits , the pyroclasts are frequently so hot when deposited that the contained gas is expelled and the individual particles are welded together to form a compact , impervious rock . |
| 5 | Three police forces have joined together to buy a one and a half million pound helicopter . |
| 6 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 7 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 8 | The three different unit sizes can be arranged together to form a natural stone effect . |
| 9 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 10 | The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial . |
| 11 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 12 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 13 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 14 | But they could be expected especially to move a religious audience committed to a divine order comprehending all men . |
| 15 | Emmenthal and Gruyère are mixed together to make a Swiss cheese fondue . |
| 16 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 17 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 18 | The project under discussion for Liverpool comes from the confidence of two religions prepared to work together to build a new primary school . |
| 19 | The building blocks have n't come together to form a self-replicating chain like RNA . |
| 20 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
| 21 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 22 | In addition , the gill openings on either side of the head have fused together to form a single opening across the throat . |
| 23 | Two decades ago , Strahler tried valiantly to infuse a genetic approach into the subject but was greeted with meagre response … |
| 24 | Mr Heseltine is expected soon to release a white paper on energy policy which could set out plans for saving some of the jobs at pits BC want to close . |
| 25 | As the shell emerges from the gun barrel at more than 15000 m/s , aluminium petals peel away to reveal a long , thin tungsten-alloy rod with fins at the rear to stabilise it and thus improve accuracy . |
| 26 | You have to work harder to get a good news hook , but it , but it , it still exists and people still are interested , provided it 's a hook . |
| 27 | But I tried always to have a quiet time with God before I started my revision that morning . |
| 28 | Three visitors from Frankfurt , Germany , recently visited ACET 's offices before returning home to begin a similar service , Christian AIDS Help ( CAH ) . |
| 29 | Both the Christian Democrats and the Socialists , long the leading partnership of Italian government , tried yesterday to put a brave face on their poor showing . |
| 30 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |