Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt is made to offer one heading for each concept , a principle which the indexer should try to adhere to consistently . |
| 2 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've no idea where he must have gone to when he came back from London ? ’ |
| 4 | Until early September you 'll meet strong winds , and you 'll need to sail to windward in a force 4 or even force 6 in a short choppy sea . |
| 5 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 6 | Now she fears that if they breed any faster , she 'll have to move to somewhere bigger . |
| 7 | The source of supply in the sea might perhaps shown signs of exhaustion , and the fishermen might have to resort to more distant coasts and to deeper waters , Nature giving a diminishing return to the increased application of capital and labour of a given order of efficiency . |
| 8 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 9 | Er , there is just one crucial one I think that I 'd like to refer to briefly . |
| 10 | This could have led to up to 350 pesticides being outlawed in the state , along with the banning of all foods containing residues . |
| 11 | Games show the cumulative importance of individual human decisions on events , and demonstrate that different decisions at particular points could have led to very different outcomes . |
| 12 | That money could have gone to so many good causes . |
| 13 | Sandra could have moved to either Newark or Leicester . |
| 14 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |
| 15 | Later in the century the number shipped may have risen to as many as 100,000 a year , and the British share of the total certainly became larger . |
| 16 | It is worth speculating about conditions under the Weald , where Mesozoic burial before inversion may have amounted to about 3 km . |
| 17 | The total value of Aaron 's estate on his death is unknown , but it may have amounted to as much as £100,000 in cash , treasure , and bonds . |
| 18 | Although the rate of movement between India and Eurasia fell markedly after their initial collision some 50 Ma ago , convergence of the two land masses since then may have amounted to as much as 2500 km . |
| 19 | Many of the mild or ‘ not breathless ’ cases in this survey , particularly children , may have responded to less aggressive intervention . |
| 20 | With an inelastic demand for loans , interest rates may have to rise to very high levels in order to bring the required reduction in monetary growth . |
| 21 | Since such low rates are failing to revive growth , some economists reckon that the yield on long-dated government bonds would need to drop to around 7% to have much effect . |
| 22 | A local income tax would work according to where a person lives . |
| 23 | Whereas the tax relief would have affected some 78,000,000 families , the proposed increases would have applied to only around 1,000,000 couples and individuals . |
| 24 | One second after the big bang , it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees . |
| 25 | it would have gone to either the sales manager or the regional managing director of the Eastern region of at the time |
| 26 | So that 's what I would have gone to there . |
| 27 | Well that 's true erm and indeed , erm there is nothing we do which erm requires universities to erm to do anything other than they would have wanted to anyway . |
| 28 | I would have liked to though . |
| 29 | The bond 's market value would have to fall to around £50 . |
| 30 | The blanket ban on the publishers not only would have led to virtually nothing being bought for the borough 's libraries , but it would have denied the borough those titles which do serve the fight against racism . |