Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In primary 6 and 7 that goes up to one hour l5 minutes . ’ |
| 2 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 3 | I advise him that with unlimited spending , with arbitrary revaluations , with a rates proposal that goes back to 1973 — |
| 4 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 5 | Richard Parker Landscapes Colour Around Us , The Art Gallery , Queensway , Billingham ( until June 27 ) IN what is effectively a full-scale retrospective with work that goes back to 1958 , Richard Parker shares with us his great love of landscape . |
| 6 | The Penhill site may be the source of a story that goes back to Celtic mythology , " The Legend of the Giant of Penhill " . |
| 7 | Many of the documents signed at Halling bear the signatures of these men and among these we find Phillip de Poucnessh now known as Punish Hill ; Richard le Veel , Veles of Snodland ; John le Lad now Lads Farm ; John de Holoweye , Holoway Court Snodland ; and another name that lives on to this day is Bavens Bank , which probably derives its name from Adam de Bavent . |
| 8 | This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny . |
| 9 | According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge . |
| 10 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 11 | ‘ Classic Italian elegance that harks back to one of the greatest ever Ferraris , the Daytona ’ |
| 12 | They tell a story that reaches back to neolithic man some 5,000 years ago , to the Roman occupation , to the many religious and military influences and the continuing threat of invasion over the years . |
| 13 | The vision is to see a ministry established that reaches out to working girls . |
| 14 | This format uses an electronic camera that stores up to 50 still images on a tiny floppy disk . |
| 15 | Garlic is one of the most widely used aphrodisiacs around the world , with a pedigree that stretches back to ancient times . |
| 16 | Most relate to the use of custodial penalties and are based on a technique that dates back to 1949 when courts were directed to avoid passing custodial sentences on young adult offenders unless it appeared that no other method was appropriate . |
| 17 | Gieves , a business that dates back to 1785 , were above all tailors to the officers of HM Navy , many of whom , the management appreciated , could not afford to buy a good quality uniform , which they had to provide themselves , and pay for it in cash . |
| 18 | A former coaching inn that dates back to 1780 . |
| 19 | The server software option runs in conjunction with MachTen and MacOS , and sports a built in windows manager that supports up to six X terminals , as well as Macintosh-style tools and Macintosh-style Windows or Motif-style Window functions . |
| 20 | Two models are available : the Companion 100 , a wireless controller supporting up to 80 portable phones behind an existing telephone system , and the Companion 10 , a stand-alone system that supports up to 32 portables . |
| 21 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 22 | Cheltenham & Gloucester has launched a no-strings-attached , fully portable five-year deal fixed at 7.75 per cent , available on an interest-only or repayment basis on mortgages and remortgages up to 90 per cent of property value . |
| 23 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 24 | Selahattin Simsek is currently being held in Bursa Special Type Prison and has up to eight more years of his sentence to serve . |
| 25 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 26 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 27 | The lower Auchtertyre horizon is about 80 m thick over a strike length of 8 km and contains up to 1.6 per cent Zn and 0.1 per cent Cu over 3 m ( MRP 93 ; Fortey and Smith , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | The R4000 SuperMax comes in an eight CPU configuration and incorporates up to eight disk controllers , 20Gb disk and can support up to 1,000 workstations — prices start go from £30,000 to £300,000 . |
| 29 | One process known as ‘ NOx Out ’ uses urea and achieves up to 80 per cent reduction at a quarter the cost of SCR . |
| 30 | The Lynx goes further and allows up to eight players to link together . |