Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the effort and all the investment made so far has effectively gone to waste . |
| 2 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 3 | The sperm has already developed to maturity , with only 23 chromosomes ( one sex chromosome ) before its release . |
| 4 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 5 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 6 | FEELING FIT : Roy has already returned to work Pictures : BILL ROWNTREE |
| 7 | This programme of research has already brought to light unnoticed phenomena of children 's different abilities to communicate in the classroom . |
| 8 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 9 | Well if you think about it it 's the only principle that America has ever gone to war over . |
| 10 | Not one piece of evidence has ever come to light to suggest that red kites attack live sheep or lambs . |
| 11 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 12 | An entertained audience is actually there and listening : a bored one has usually gone to dinner . |
| 13 | This approach has found that in close-knit , working-class urban and rural peasant communities ( the types it has usually studied to date ) , an individual 's use of nonstandard forms correlates well with their degree of integration into the community or ‘ network strength ’ . |
| 14 | In one case , which has still to come to trial , it is not clear which hat the salesman was wearing when he made his deals : his own or the life company 's . |
| 15 | North ( 1986 ) , for example , has suggested that widespread cash-cropping of groundnuts in the Sahelian zone has obliquely contributed to desertification because farmers can not afford either to purchase fertilisers to maintain soil-nutrient status or to use a long fallow period . |
| 16 | It has also decided to expense items such as sleeves , labels and packaging ; these were previously included in stocks . |
| 17 | Local autonomy has also led to variety in the way in which the education system is organised within each LEA . |
| 18 | This has resulted in not only strangers and professionals moving into the arena of dying and death , but it has also led to commercialisation and big business . |
| 19 | One has led to the written constitution , but it has also led to revolution and at times tyranny . |
| 20 | The IoT 's stance has angered members of the Tax Faculty who are currently considering their responses to the consultative document ; it has also led to speculation that the IoT is scared of losing members . |
| 21 | The dire economic situation has also led to corruption , with some teachers selling examination papers and answers . |
| 22 | He has also complained to County Hall at Durham about county councillor Charles French who spoke against the postal vote at the meeting . |
| 23 | The discharge of sewage from boats has also contributed to eutrophication problems in the region ( which is mainly due to runoff of fertilisers from adjacent arable land ) . |
| 24 | Deregulation has also extended to business organisation though , as yet , in only a limited way . |
| 25 | Its best known relative is the chamois , a native of the European Alps which has also adapted to life at high altitudes on precipitous mountain cliffs . |
| 26 | The rare Himalayan tahr — a distant relative of the mountain goat — has also adapted to life in harsh mountainous conditions . |
| 27 | It has also resorted to austerity policies which have affected prices , employment and real wages . |
| 28 | The planning system has been in existence in roughly its present form since 1947 but no one has before attempted to measure how much the system costs . |
| 29 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 30 | However , the government has now bowed to pressure and announced that it would act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ for terrorist bomb damage on the British mainland . |