Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 2 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
| 3 | It is rather strange that so little attention has been given so far to the mechanical properties of biological materials , though perhaps in human terms it is understandable . |
| 4 | Although Leavis 's prescriptions were addressed most directly to the situation at Cambridge , their immediate impact was greatest within the newer university institutions . |
| 5 | This union and other unions have protested most vigorously to the Mersey Region and they decided then to go ahead with the appeals by approaching other trade unions , not necessarily involved in clinical skills , like the plumbers and the joiners of the A U E W and the EPTU . |
| 6 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 7 | Clearly , the predisposition of the parents is carried down partially to the children . |
| 8 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 9 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 10 | To say that I see the squirrel with the black nose is to be committed not only to the existence of a visual experience , but also to the existence of something else . |
| 11 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 12 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 13 | There is a central role for specialists who can integrate the formal with the informal , who are able to influence the centres of power , and are committed more closely to the missions of the NHS than just financial reward . |
| 14 | ‘ It probably looked real enough to the millionaires , too , ’ he said sardonically . |
| 15 | The French now seemed fully committed once more to a future of European co-operation . |
| 16 | As these sites are used up housebuilders have looked further afield to the small towns and villages of southern England which are now within commuting reach of London and the motorway-induced development radiating from it . |
| 17 | Mensheviks in general adhered more strictly to the traditional Marxist assumption that in so backward a country as Russia the impending revolution would bring the bourgeoisie to power . |
| 18 | Both the full-time and the associate students have responded enormously well to the greater flexibility offered by the programme . |
| 19 | He was shaking hands now with the woman , who was the exact antithesis of her niece , being thin and bony ; even her arms , showing bare where she had her sleeves rolled up almost to the armpits , looked fleshless . |
| 20 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 21 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 22 | The sounds had come far away to the right . |
| 23 | Iron-smelting was also carried out extensively to the west and north-west of the town , especially in the area of Bedford Purlieus . |
| 24 | These Regions have had a declared policy to extend their supply area with SCHEMES identified as Gas Gathering , Rural Gasification or Village Infill , but until recent years most infill work has tended to be carried out close to the gas supply area , with only occasional forays outside these localities . |
| 25 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 26 | Following the exile , it should be recalled that women , for a complex of pragmatic reasons , were confined almost exclusively to the domestic realm . |
| 27 | Production of Dunlop cheese has now been commercialised in creameries and is confined almost exclusively to the islands of Arran and Islay . |
| 28 | Meaningful interaction is confined almost exclusively to the locality which creates a very contained and powerful vessel for the transmission of a local culture . |
| 29 | The animal prion diseases are scrapie , affecting sheep and goats and prevalent in most sheep rearing countries ( although not Australasia or Japan ) ; transmissible mink encephalopathy , occurring in rare outbreaks in captive bred animals on mink farms , mainly in North America ; chronic wasting disease of captive mule deer and elk , seen in North America ; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy , currently a major epidemic confined almost entirely to the cattle of the British Isles . |
| 30 | The storms have also left the remains of a medieval church perched perilously close to the sea . |