Example sentences of "[verb] to [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southsea was the main attraction but Latimer Road contributed to drawing away the London skaters . |
| 2 | A spokesman stressed that the government was still committed to setting up the agency ( one of the commitments in the Conservatives ' election manifesto ) , and that the necessary bill would be introduced later in 1992 or in 1993 . |
| 3 | This means it is committed to doing exactly the right thing . |
| 4 | The indications suggest that the Conservative government elected in 1987 is committed to reducing swiftly the scale of public-sector housing . |
| 5 | The government was also committed to reducing radically the budget deficit by implementing cuts in social spending ; defence expenditure , however , is set to increase by almost 11.6 per cent [ see p. 38289 ] . |
| 6 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 7 | Up to 50 images can be stored at once and if that is not enough , you can always transfer the images to an Apple Powerbook to make more space — a bit of a culture shock for anyone used to filling up a camera bag with film and dashing off to the nearest photo lab . |
| 8 | Setting up a ‘ hearth ’ corresponds to setting up a home . |
| 9 | Suppose you object to carrying out a particular management order . |
| 10 | Architect Mr. E. Ravenscroft , was instructed to drawn up a £1,000 scheme and Mr. Mardon paid £10 towards his fees . |
| 11 | When it came to setting up the Friends , I found the words ‘ realistic ’ or ‘ moderation ’ did n't have much meaning for me . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the Baron 's wife , who has transferred her main residence to Spain , was of great influence when it came to deciding where the collection should alight . |
| 13 | However , in what the Guardian of July 9 called " a scintillating display of his personality and skill at manipulation " , Gorbachev castigated and cajoled the congress into reversing this decision ; on this and several subsequent occasions it was proved that the combative talk by the majority conservatives was strikingly at odds with their docility when it came to challenging outright the will of the party leader . |
| 14 | Over-use of hot air appliances can contribute to drying out the hair . |
| 15 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 16 | Illustrating the links between business and education , and I have said that we are a major business in the area we have probably stronger links with education than any other business that I can think of , and they are going to be sa singing our praises so we are going to putting quite a big display in the in the fashion centre . |
| 17 | Er right Mary Whitehouse to come we 'll be talking about sex and the Buddha of Suburbia and er whatever else sort of takes her fancy and we are going to liven up the traffic I think at er round about one twenty five and find out what 's happening there . |
| 18 | He had agreed to taking on a reading tour in Scotland . |
| 19 | Could it be that thoughts are turning to knitting now the Autumn season is upon us ? |
| 20 | Some of the top soil is so acidic that no tree can survive and the Government has resorted to digging up the affected soil and replacing it with fresh stocks . |
| 21 | Thus , as it seems to me , the burden of proof under the 1981 Act has shifted to demonstrating why a child with special educational needs should not be educated in an ordinary school with the necessary extra provision . |
| 22 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 23 | But that 's comparatively easy , compared to creating even a small universe , you know . ’ |
| 24 | The backswing can be compared to chopping down a tree with and axe ; power and speed come from the distance the axe is swung back . |
| 25 | However this system is restricted to recognising only a small number of words since it must be explicitly trained for every word in the vocabulary . |
| 26 | Flaubert went to the house of Kuchuk Hanem , a famous Cairene courtesan reduced to eking out a living in this provincial backwater . |
| 27 | She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours . |
| 28 | Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed . |
| 29 | The remainder of this chapter will be devoted to examining how the potential provided by the two versions of the infinitive is actually used by speakers of English in contexts where the infinitive occurs after full verbs . |
| 30 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |