Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
2 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
3 | So you can imagine the sort of conversations we 're gon na have when Ray and Cynthia are talking about the distances between things and I 'm going to be saying you know if I want to go from Piccadilly to Tech house , it can take me at least half an hour . |
4 | & sup1 ; I want to talk about reactions to the report and to highlight a few issues which have arisen since it was written . |
5 | And colleagues , a couple of colleagues that , er , few of us appear to appreciate from time to time , and those are the signers who do a very important job for some delegates who are here this week . |
6 | Prices vary according to volume and length — expect to pay between £100 to £475 , maximum |
7 | Frank want to travel with Drillo to the US next year . |
8 | Having bought my car , if I want to travel from A to B in Britain I have to do so by travelling on the left-hand side of the road . |
9 | It 's not everyone who contrive to lose at home to Luton . |
10 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
11 | When I leave at the end of the year , I plan to continue in pastoral work but hope to return on occasions to be with the Middlesbrough Diocesan Family . |
12 | In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily . |
13 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
14 | ‘ Although this is a drastic comparison it is still worth bearing in mind , especially when we begin to pass from youth to maturity . |
15 | More-over , the effects of imitation on performance seem to differ with respect to phonological abilities and grammatical abilities . |
16 | Begin to look for route to his home in A-Z . |
17 | Soon they begin to drop like birds to his side . |
18 | The second-hand boat market is saturated ; yachts seem to drop in value to a level that lasts for decades , never entirely disappearing from the market . |
19 | Strong figures are due from Eastern Electricity on Thursday with profits set to rise from £15.4m to £24m , while top-end estimates for Scottish Hydro-Electric are heading for £40m-£50m , up from £27m last year . |
20 | As Tumin ( 1953 , p. 389 ) points out , the very reverse is so : ‘ Smoothly working and stable systems of stratification tend to build in obstacles to the further exploitation of the range of available talent . ’ |
21 | Few things are consistent in the social services : each service tends to be financed differently ; the statutory basis , the context of the central/local government relationship and distribution of control , and the underlying social principles all tend to vary from service to service . |
22 | While the use of the New Town device is now being discontinued , British governments continue to experiment with approaches to urban renewal which bypass existing agencies . |
23 | These patterns , each of which can be characterized in fractal terms , continue to change from step to step , unfolding a remarkable sequence , dynamic fractals . |
24 | Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation . |
25 | In brainstorming , you liberate your mind and try to react without inhibition to your subject , allowing room for any and every idea that bubbles to the surface of your mind . |
26 | The Co Antrim team certainly had cause to celebrate after storming to the title after five years in the doldrums … and now they aim to go from strength to strength . |
27 | The thousands of varieties of European shirts may differ in terms of button types and collar lengths , but they remain recognizable as shirts as opposed to garments used in other cultures for an identical functional purpose ; and this is because the manufacturers , as it were , agree to differ with respect to these specific and limited dimensions . |
28 | Peggy travelled extensively around the country introducing Medau , and a 5.30 a.m. start to journey from Sheffield to London ( accompanied only by a large bag of balls ) to teach just one class was not exceptional ! |
29 | The non-dipole terms give a site dependence to the VGP paths ; they tend to move from east to west if the site is northeast or southwest of the point 0°N ; 90°E and from west to east if the site is northwest or southeast of it . |
30 | You choose the amount you wish to invest from £5,000 to £100,000 . |