Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not easy for them to do , for so extremely have their bodies become adapted to life in the air that their legs are greatly reduced in size . |
| 2 | Paul Mason is also available again and , on a ground where they 've come to grief in the past , Aberdeen have been reminded by Willie Miller that only their best will be good enough against St Johnstone . |
| 3 | see if I can get a grade A for this one , that , if I can get a grade A for the er next two pieces that I 'm doing , which I 've got to hand in , that could take me to a B grade after that . |
| 4 | That 's the sort of club it is , you 've got to muck in and do everything . ’ |
| 5 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 6 | THREE Sellafield bikers have roared to success in the recent Wirral 100 road races . |
| 7 | In recent years unification grammars have come to prominence in the computational linguistics community . |
| 8 | Various governments have come to office in the postwar years , some committed to reducing public spending , others to raising it . |
| 9 | In fact , since the TV programme , more leukaemia cases have come to light in the area . |
| 10 | The supposition that Theunis — or maybe his father — invented the name Krankoor shortly before emigrating comes from the fact that no surviving Krankoors , nor records of such a family , have come to light in Holland ; two Crankos live in The Hague but they are recent arrivals from South Africa . |
| 11 | In view of the harsh treatment of the victims of mental illness in hospitals like Bedlam , where members of the public or the acting profession could study their behaviour at first hand , it is not surprising that no striking instances of writers proclaiming themselves mad by writing about their own affliction have come to light in this period . |
| 12 | The artist emerges far more clearly as a result of corrections and additions , and of further research on the many drawings that have come to light in recent decades . |
| 13 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 14 | The successful introduction of a rationalised and acceptable meaning to the word ‘ god ‘ would destroy the dominance of those people , often of superior intelligence , who from time to time have come to power in nearly all civilisations , by exploiting the fear of the unknown among their fellows . |
| 15 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
| 16 | All the questions so far have related to hypnotherapy in general — whether or not regression forms part of that treatment . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , one group of toads , the spadefoot toads , have adapted to life in some of the hottest and driest places in the world . |
| 18 | Among the antelope these include gazelle species that have adapted to life in India . |
| 19 | This development is undoubtedly due to the greater accessibility that personal computers have brought to computing in terms of cost , ease of use and reduced dependence on others . |
| 20 | These different criteria have led to confusion in the diagnosis of the tubular or dilated segment distal to the mucosal junction . |
| 21 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 22 | Although this was some time ago , similar dismissals have continued to surface in the work of those who adopt Chomsky 's theoretical position . |