Example sentences of "they [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Former Chief Secretaries have been known to make spirited claims for additional resources when they move to a departmental job . |
| 32 | They answer to a formalized consciousness . |
| 33 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 34 | It seems that , whenever blacks turn their attention to a particular sport , they rise to a high order of competence in it . |
| 35 | They come to a black empty stage . |
| 36 | They should chat until they come to a realistic agreement about a style that will suit her hair and lifestyle . |
| 37 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
| 38 | In the early stages of the inner-city study it was already evident that these rules were of historical and theoretical importance , as they lead to a regular series of alternations in derivationally related items . |
| 39 | They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt . |