Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences . |
| 2 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 3 | Soozi explains that if you place crystals close to you , your body will tune in to their vigorous vibrational frequency and be energised and healed . |
| 4 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 5 | They should face up to their fresh legislative responsibilities candidly . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'll return back to their own world once they 've had their fun . |
| 7 | The offensive has slowed , and there are doubts whether the guerrillas can hold on to their recent gains for long . |
| 8 | Those who promise great things do not always match up to their own or anyone else 's expectations ! |
| 9 | Nikola Koljevic , their deputy leader , says Serbs will go back to their old demand for a Bosnian confederation of independent Serb , Muslim and Croat states . |
| 10 | Others , such as the Hoar Stone at Enstone , Oxfordshire , will go back to their original position if moved . |
| 11 | Either the Serbs will let the refugees go back to their original homes , which is hard to imagine , or the ‘ protecting ’ soldiers will sooner or later have to escort them out , to look for new homes somewhere else . |
| 12 | MV Well , we do have a gutter press here but , of course , it is new , and in a while these things which are , for the moment , sensational , will go back to their proper place . |
| 13 | Some of the squadron commanders , and maybe the odd flight commander who again was not flying , invariably pointed out they need not go back to their operational training unit , they could remain and we would send for their kit . |
| 14 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 15 | Having received many reports of disappointment with West Indian hotels that do n't live up to their high prices we would be interested to know of any that combine the following virtues : immediate access to unpolluted sea ; the possibility of snorkelling and windsurfing ; freedom from background music ; cotton sheets , with no polyester mixture ; edible food , and preferably , cottage-style accommodation . |
| 16 | Aware that absolute holists can not live up to their own tenets , they offer a different distinction between the two approaches so that , rather than being seen as strict alternatives , they are held to be complementary . |
| 17 | When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime . |
| 18 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |