Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] to [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 get promoted to Head of Lower School , or Head of House .
2 Even so , many officials remain opposed to liberalisation of the regulations : they regard services as culturally corrosive ( as in media ) or politically important for national control ( as in financial services and trans-border data flows ) .
3 White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy .
4 And I can nae , can nae sleep lying down horizontally , I 've got to kind of you know kind of
5 so there is this mixture of er of the older element and the younger element which we 've got to sort of marry during this course .
6 funny squiggles and you 've got to sort of like when you first see X squared , and you think , What 's that ?
7 We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’
8 there 's no use bothering to how ours worked you 've got to sort of know how this one works .
9 You know you 've got to sort of move on .
10 and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four .
11 You sees like cutting , you know you see these walls that are like that and they sort of go down like that and join a pillar and do the same again , just , instead of doing that you lay the soldiers across the top and you , you 've got to sort of cut the bricks in between ai n't ya ?
12 I know , but you 've got to sort of set your sights realistically have n't you ? and there 's a lot
13 So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion .
14 and you 've got to sort of well
15 So I 've got to sort of I 've got ta record a .
16 And it was all in a bunch , so I 've had to sort of unhook it .
17 I know I 've listened to hours of school .
18 Other recent developments have pointed to changes of philosophy .
19 The authorities have responded to complaints of increasing truancy with legislation apparently strict but in practice almost ineffective .
20 Analogous replacements in other DNA cytosine-C 5 methyltransferases of cysteine residues for serine have lead to loss of methyltransfer activity ; the folding status of the corresponding stable gene products , however , was not characterized ( 27 , 28 ) .
21 why they give you ten so that you know , you get intervals , between , because the girls have got to sort of tap all the words in
22 The publication of UPDATE is part of the information dissemination strategy and a number of SCOTVEC staff have spoken to groups of college staff about the ACDP .
23 Others , however , feel that reforms have debased the profession and have led to exploitation of their services .
24 It is these rare occurrences that have led to stories of tom-cat cannibalism — and to stories that paint the male feline as a savage monster bent on slaughtering and consuming his own children .
25 In the last decade , various strands of research have led to re-examination of the role of metaphor in language , and to the suggestion that it is a tool for thought .
26 However , problems of measurement have led to underestimation of improvements in service-sector productivity expressed most recently in the drive towards self-service restaurants and petrol stations , and automated cash dispensers at banks .
27 The application of technology and over-generous subsidies , together with a decline in demand for some commodities , such as red meat , have led to levels of surplus whose financial and structural consequences for EEC farmers must now be addressed .
28 Apparently some special attributes of this microbial group have led to acquisition of the ability to manipulate mitosis in eukaryotic hosts .
29 Although I have mentioned to Kate of my association with Fiona , the two have never met .
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