Example sentences of "[verb] to [det] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few controversial mammalian fossils were known from the age of reptiles , and Lyell appealed to these as evidence that the whole sequence was unsound . |
| 2 | We will refer to these as intro , A , B , C and coda shape of a circle with a cross on it . |
| 3 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 4 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't amount to more than gossip , you know . |