Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , who stands six feet four inches and weighs in at 15 7 stone , beat Scotland 's Colin Brown in the semi-finals of the Amateur Boxing Association Championship at Gateshead Leisure Centre and now goes on to the finals in the Albert Hall , London on May 6 . |
| 2 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 3 | They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley ! |
| 4 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 5 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 6 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 7 | Pipe bows on to the parcels and decorate the party hats . |
| 8 | ‘ Soul On Ice ’ is a self-styled disco record , which is fine by me ; unfortunately it is also a rather monotonous record with a plodding beat that owes little to the glories of mad '70s dance music . |
| 9 | This gripping drama owes much to the shades of menace hinted at in Caffrey 's Man , and the semi-hysterical flutterings of O'Mahoney 's King , who has long since toppled from his throne . |
| 10 | The sudden , sharp increase in cross-Atlantic skiing traffic owes much to the claims of some American resorts that they can guarantee snow cover , even if as much as 75 per cent of it may be man-made . |
| 11 | Our evaluation therefore owes much to the assumptions , concepts and procedures of the " new sociology of education " of the early seventies , inspired as it was by the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz ( 1964 ) and Berger and Luckmann ( 1967 ) , and the Symbolic Interactionism of G H Mead ( 1934 ) and Erving Goffman ( 1959 ) . |
| 12 | The accurate hitting of targets in September owes much to the decisions made as to whether or not to confirm offers to those who have not quite met the conditions , a process strongly influenced by estimates ( based on past experience ) of the likely take up by those that have . |
| 13 | The particularly rapid growth of Norman Broadbent owes much to the partners ' skill and luck in their sense of timing in the formation of the company ; it is unlikely that this could now be repeated quite so successfully . |
| 14 | It has its origins in formal logic , and owes much to the writings of Aristotle and Frege . |
| 15 | Once again we are saying something in general form which corresponds exactly to the particularities of wave mechanics . |
| 16 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 17 | In such a case , as Lord Haldane said in North Western Salt Co Ltd v Electrolytic Alkali Co Ltd [ 1914 ] AC 461 , the law " still looks carefully to the interests of the public , but it regards the parties as the best judges of what is reasonable as between themselves " . |
| 18 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 19 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 20 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 21 | Finally , and most significantly , the responsibility for providing local services is shared between appointed officials and elected councillors in a way that corresponds neither to the practices found in private organisations , nor to those obtaining in other branches of public administration . |
| 22 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 23 | And then he looks forward to the weekends and that . |
| 24 | There are many difficulties in getting supplies through to the zones and priority is given to medicines , not to contraceptives , Campesina combatants are generally opposed to using contraceptives for religious reasons and while women from urban areas may wish to adopt some form of birth control , it is not always available : |
| 25 | The convection divides into a series of layers ; nearly all the variation of each quantity occurs close to the edges of the layers . |
| 26 | She 's back in the canteen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. , when she goes home to the children and her working day starts its next shift . |
| 27 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 28 | A complaint goes off to the powers . |
| 29 | In turn this leads on to the problems to do with the extent to which , and the conditions under which , respondents accurately report their beliefs , attitudes and , ultimately , to the extensive and impressive technology of interview and attitude measurement . |
| 30 | At the beginning we are confronted by a huge battle which leads on to the deaths of loyal knights . |