Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
2 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
3 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
4 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
5 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
6 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
7 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
8 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
9 | ‘ Unfortunately , in all the confusion of evidence , it seems to have come down to one brother 's word against the other . ’ |
10 | If you are booked in to Black Sail Hut Youth Hostel and the weather puts you off completing the main route , you can make a circuit around Crummock Water before crossing Scarth Gap . |
11 | There has been no excavation to prove it , but it looks as though the concrete track foundations were carried through to solid ground , as were the main foundations at the upper part of the incline . |
12 | Nevertheless he was able to show that , despite all this , the Company had , by a great act of faith , begun and carried through to partial completion a programme of overall improvement rather than just piecemeal adjustments . |
13 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
14 | These factors have added up to heavy oversubcription in France , and across Europe , where the lists have already closed ( British investors still have until Friday ) . |
15 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
16 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
17 | Sir Geoffrey Littler , a former senior Treasury official and a director of NatWest Investment Bank , together witha group of eight City worthies , will have reported back to another committee established by the Exchange giving an interim assessment of the issues involved . |
18 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
19 | one pound for every two over the limit , and you 're abated back to this level of allowance . |
20 | ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house . |
21 | I have tried to deal with this in good faith , but if anyone feels they have a problem , all they have to do is come back to this office . ’ |
22 | So now they 've got it sorted out to one pound between three of them . |
23 | Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden . |
24 | When the men of Market Harborough died they were carried back to Great Bowden for burial , back to the country village on whose fields their town had sprung up . |
25 | In response to the demands of the Grain Trade , further expansion was carried out to Imperial Grain Warehouse resulting in additional bulk silo storage of 15,000 tons . |
26 | Further hospital clinic follow up is arranged only in cases of particular need ; otherwise the patient is discharged back to prompted community care . |
27 | By the end of the year the UDC , which in the summer had fully backed Leeds and urged its local branches to support the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers Councils , had come round to full support for the Labour Party . |
28 | London , as it watched the decline of New York and Paris as theatrical capitals , maintained over fifty theatres , subsidised and commercial — of which most , on any week-day evening , were usually given over to legitimate theatre . |
29 | The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use . |
30 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |