Example sentences of "[vb -s] to reach [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasing the number of reactive components in the filter stage to two , as in the simple low-pass L-C filter of figure 8.7(a) , causes to reach a maximum rate of fall-off outside the pass band of 40 dB per decade of frequency . |
| 2 | ‘ IOSCO wants to reach the point where there is one set of accounting standards and one set of auditing standards , so that companies which file their accounts in more than one jurisdiction only have to prepare one set of accounts and have them audited once , ’ said Auditing Practices Board secretary Robert Charlesworth . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , suppose an astronaut wants to reach the edge of our universe . |
| 4 | To win one of those four seats , a candidate has to reach a ‘ quota ’ of votes . |
| 5 | But before deciding not to co-operate , you should bear in mind that this could mean the company has to reach a decision on the basis of inadequate information . |
| 6 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 7 | Conversely with a low gear ratio the effective load inertia is high and the motor accelerates slowly , but has to reach a relatively low stepping rate to move the load at a satisfactory speed . |
| 8 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 9 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 10 | Llyn y Fan fawr may be easily reached and from its southern end a very clear path , known as the Staircase , climbs to reach the Bwlch y Giedd pass — the ridge is now all yours . |
| 11 | The Environmental Protection Agency plans to reach a decision by early 1991 on whether a national ban on Carbofuran is to be imposed . |
| 12 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |
| 13 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 14 | How long it takes to reach the size , and the actual attainable size of this fish are things fishkeepers will be investigating . |
| 15 | How long it takes to reach the size , and the actual attainable size of this fish are things we will only find out with time . |
| 16 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 17 | Media costs are usually assessed in terms of ‘ cost per thousand ’ : the number of pence ( or pounds ) it takes to reach an audience of 1000 ( adults , housewives , men under 45 or whatever ) with a given ad or campaign . |
| 18 | A full-scale publicity exercise with money raising as a secondary object , BDA week aims to reach the hearing community through the distribution of publicity material , features on radio and television , newspaper coverage and various branch activities . |
| 19 | But sometimes a tin of Heinz 's best seems to reach the parts my homemade mash , carrots and gravy fails to reach . |
| 20 | From there the path falls and rises to reach the dramatic cliffs of Bannau Sir Gaer above Llyn y Fan fach . |
| 21 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 22 | Sweden , Austria and West Germany plan to cut total SO&sub2 ; emissions by between 65 and 70 per cent by the year 1995 and Sweden hopes to reach an 80 per cent reduction by the end of the century . |
| 23 | The privately owned company , Ovation Inc , plans to begin advertiser supported programming nationwide in late 1994 and hopes to reach an audience of tens of millions within the most affluent sector of the U.S. population . |
| 24 | It appears that highly productive authors will not necessarily publish in those journals which have the highest circulation , and which hence are presumed to be those used for those papers which an author wishes to reach the largest possible readership . |
| 25 | 29 A monkey tries to reach a branch 5½m above the ground by standing on the shoulders of an elephant 4 ¼m high . |
| 26 | If flexibility is insufficient and the golfer tries to reach the parallel position with the club at the top of the backswing , the body will compensate either by folding the right foot onto its side , which can lead to the collapse of the same knee , or falling into a reverse pivot . |
| 27 | All too often this method fails to reach the stowaway pests , or if it does , it fails to kill them . |
| 28 | Reports suggest that colonoscopy fails to reach the caecum in 17 to 45% of cases except in very experienced hands . |