Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 2 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 3 | That is why we must oppose anti-porn forces in whatever guise they appear ; which means being prepared to face up to pornography , to understand why we like it and why we find that so shameful . |
| 4 | Yet , during the late 1930s , Labour 's clear hostility towards European fascism , and its support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War confirmed it to be a party which was prepared to face up to fascism . |
| 5 | Their problem is that they — and their clients — find it quite difficult to recognize , and almost impossible to turn on to order . |
| 6 | It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas , especially in a small area sample . |
| 7 | This is impossible to do by staying within the lines , although it is easy to get close to success . |
| 8 | As we 've in fact transferred to oil , those coal heaps in many cases have actually been cleaned up and build on , so as oil runs out it perhaps will not be possible to reconvert back to coal use in some factories simply because the space for storage wo n't exist . |
| 9 | Its brief was to ‘ help and persuade as many people as possible to look forward to retirement as the time of fulfilment ’ ( Hubbard 1962 ) . |
| 10 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 11 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 12 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 13 | I 'm sure I 'm fit to go back to work . ’ |
| 14 | You 're supposed to come on to parade with clean boots , Jones ! ( condition 3 ) |
| 15 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 16 | To dwell upon the problem emotions of others is frowned upon as ‘ morbid curiosity ’ , likely to lead only to highlighting and prolonging them , thereby causing unnecessary pain . |
| 17 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 18 | Eventually , Sabine had been glad to escape altogether to university , where she 'd read Modern Languages . |
| 19 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 20 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 21 | Where such clauses are included at the wish of the parties it is always as well to go on to spell out the consequences of the failure to agree . |
| 22 | Use cursor ( arrow ) key to go down to Connection Information , then return . |
| 23 | After these general guidelines , it may be helpful to go on to review some of the most popular cuisines and eating places . |
| 24 | The reason that this has been brought on , the reason that this er er agenda item brought to housing committee was basically er because it was there and er it 's I think it 's repulsive to bring forward to housing committee any er government regulations or we need to look at debating and er and that 's basically the reason . |
| 25 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 26 | He would then unaccountably find that the world was no longer about to end and would be able to go back to work . |
| 27 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |
| 28 | Do they think you 'll be able to go back to work ? |
| 29 | And is Janet , has Janet been able to go back to work yet ? |
| 30 | If all goes well , you may be able to go back to school when the new year starts in the autumn . |