Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 2 | Keeping information up to date was considered to be difficult due to the increasing number of information sources , and the fact that only certain sections of documents might be superseded by new information . |
| 3 | Responsibility for changing this and keeping information up to date can be delegated to a staff nurse or senior student . |
| 4 | There was further deformation of the Moine and Dalradian rocks on the north side of the Iapetus Suture causing metamorphism up to granulite grade and widespread granitic intrusion . |
| 5 | Welsh Water is the only British water authority committed to ending the widespread practice of pumping sewage out to sea . |
| 6 | Churchill had been egging Auchinleck on to attack , and so relieve the pressure on the beleaguered island of Malta which was threatened with starvation unless convoys could get through . |
| 7 | Unless there is some way of converting ADP back to ATP , the cell would soon run out of energy . |
| 8 | Tchoungui and Fochivé had lost their previous posts following the abortive coup attempt of April 1984 , aimed at bringing Ahidjo back to power [ see pp. 33075-76 ] . |
| 9 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 10 | I pulled the rubber almost to maximum and sent the ball-bearing and photograph hissing and spinning way out to sea . |