Example sentences of "[vb base] to [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Pull-down menus and point-and-click icons ensure that you can get to where you want to in a hurry and the unique help icon means there 's always help at hand . |
2 | Instead they refer to only a sub-section of these behaviours , a sub-section which is more likely to be committed by young , poorly-educated males who are often unemployed , live in working-class impoverished neighbourhoods , and frequently belong to an ethnic minority . |
3 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
4 | They can put the whole cheese out on the cheeseboard , again I suppose to just a portion going on the cheeseboard . |
5 | Eventually , one rat adopts a submissive posture and its squeaks lengthen to about a second each , while their pitch drops to about 30 000 hertz . |
6 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
7 | No such action has been taken : the pilot projects apply to just a handful of catchments . |
8 | Now only three or four years later I 'd say of yeah we 're go to somewhere a bit quieter , so that kids can go to bed of a night time , we could have a apartment . |
9 | Anyone who earns enough to pay national insurance contributions is either ‘ contracted-in ’ to SERPS or ‘ contracted-out ’ because they belong to either an employer 's scheme or a personal pension scheme . |
10 | Little economies when they are added up , come to quite a lot of money each month . |
11 | You have to in a place like this , every move they make . ’ |