Example sentences of "together [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 2 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 3 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 4 | On Saturday 9 November University musicians past and present will be joining together to perform a varied programme of Baroque music in aid of the Foundation ( see advertisement on page 43 for details ) . |
| 5 | I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum . |
| 6 | The size of the changes demands that all parts of the NHS ( at least in London ) pull together to provide a coordinated response . |
| 7 | Their letters and diaries have been threaded together to provide a fresh perspective on the lives of young airmen during times when their survival statistics were grim . |
| 8 | This total reverence to the group binds ideas of silence , loyalty , and reticence together to create a positive category for belief and action and , in turn , links silence to other concepts of respect for the order of the institution . |
| 9 | These people — ordinary working-class folk like me — had come together to celebrate a gay relationship and to wish it success and happiness . |
| 10 | It is up to citizens working together to initiate a long term process of communication , mutual support and joint action . |
| 11 | In these meetings , students come together to discuss a defined topic , whose main points are put forward by one of their own number ; the staff members who attend do so not to teach but to play a part in guiding the discussion . |
| 12 | Image processing techniques can be used to add the components together to form a composite image of the rock and to measure the proportions of the various minerals . |
| 13 | The story of Elton John meeting his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin through a small ad in Melody Maker is one of the music industry 's most famous legends , but the chances of two developing talents — a music writer and a lyricist — being brought together to form a successful partnership are n't good . |
| 14 | Mix all the ingredients together to form a firm paste . |
| 15 | The building blocks have n't come together to form a self-replicating chain like RNA . |
| 16 | The characteristics of these adjectives correspond to occurrence in the underlined position of the structure in ( 21 ) where the verb and the adjective are immediately bound together to form a complex property-nucleus which then enters into construction with the object : ( 21 ) |
| 17 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
| 18 | There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life , often personified by children . |
| 19 | The question was whether , in the harsher climate of the late 1970s and early 1980s , the fragments could be welded together to form a new force in British politics . |
| 20 | Despite the quirky characterisations of Mr Amis , my mind returned , albeit lazily , to Brian Harley and his omnipotent putter , but I could not see how to fit the various pieces of evidence together to form a coherent whole . |
| 21 | Like Dexter , she had had enough of grappling with the bundles of facts she had accumulated , facts that did not slot together to form a coherent pattern ; but dissolved and reformed into new patterns every time she touched them . |
| 22 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 23 | Those parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united as an association of freely trading and co-operating independent states must take advantage of this breathing-space to gather together to form a common front . |
| 24 | The drawing suggests how separate information fields can combine together to form a large field . |
| 25 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 26 | The local structure is governed by chemical forces , while on the other hand the long-range order reflects the way structural units on the local scale pack together to form a three-dimensional solid . |
| 27 | The three different unit sizes can be arranged together to form a natural stone effect . |
| 28 | Community life can not continue successfully unless there is some such orderly structure of mutually reinforcing expectations and ‘ roles ’ , some organization of interlocking parts which click together to form a harmonious whole . |
| 29 | A number of prominent politicians failed to win election at constituency level but nevertheless entered parliament on their party 's national lists ( where " scrap votes " , i.e. those cast for unsuccessful constituency candidates or county lists , were added together to form a national total ) . |
| 30 | And when two black holes collided and joined together to form a single hole , the area of the horizon of the final hole would be greater than the sum of the areas of the horizons of the original black holes . |