Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 2 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 3 | RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here . |
| 4 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 5 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 6 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 7 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 8 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 9 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , she still owes much to a male mentor who , in a previous job , told her : ‘ You can do it . |
| 11 | The development of fully-fledged headhunting firms owes much to a growing conflict of interest between different sectors of their business experienced by the management consultants and accountants who operated headhunting departments . |
| 12 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 13 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 14 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 15 | Clearly it all adds up to a great season ahead for the fans , who fought to keep speedway in Swindon . |
| 16 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 17 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 18 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 19 | Our friendly bar with its extensive range of beers , real ales and cocktails , combined with the latest music , dancing and entertainment , adds up to a memorable evening in a convivial atmosphere . |
| 20 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 21 | Cos each group adds up to a dotted quaver . |
| 22 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 23 | It all adds up to a pleasant ‘ lived in ’ atmosphere . |
| 24 | The review model came with a colour SuperVGA display , a low-radiation CTX monitor , plus a 1Mb Trident VGA card which all adds up to a fine non-dedicated server . |
| 25 | This all adds up to a bleak picture for corporate UK . |
| 26 | Which all in all adds up to a Mediterranean type of diet — with porridge ! |
| 27 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |
| 28 | Maintaining safety in the home is an expensive business and , for families with children , the purchase of recommended safety equipment — such as car safety seats , stair gates , a playpen and a cooker guard — adds up to a considerable sum . |
| 29 | This little difference adds up to a large saving . |
| 30 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |