Example sentences of "[vb base] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Right , but one of the things we have to remember is , and I know it 's sort of a sha , but you have the experience of last year and , that has to be shared you know to sort of cut the corners yo you 've got ta pass it back a year or up a year , whichever whatever happens and you 've made a very valid comment there and you need to make note of that that , you know somehow you have to work round Rob to get it |
| 32 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 33 | Black boxes refer to location of probes used for indirect end labelling . |
| 34 | I refer to letter of regarding the conditional offer of appointment to the above post . |
| 35 | I personally like to idea of meetings like this , both because of the element of local co-operation and also because we can hear the views of other people , railway sympathisers rather than railway enthusiasts perhaps , on how railways fit into the scene . |
| 36 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 37 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 38 | They just like to sort of I do n't know why but they just seem to sort of |
| 39 | Business Monitor : Pay increases slow to rate of 6.5pc |
| 40 | Pass to left of farm , then re-enter wood by gate . |
| 41 | Army teams start trek to top of world . |
| 42 | How many transactions amount to diminution of an estate ? |
| 43 | It is important to note that the burden does not amount to proof of reasonableness itself , for that is a question for the judge , but to prove the facts from which reasonableness can be inferred . |
| 44 | A refusal to answer questions for example , could , in the absence of reasonable excuse , amount to contempt of court . |
| 45 | ( b ) Failure to answer police questions does not , by itself , amount to obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty . |
| 46 | If there is no further communication and the goods or services are supplied , the buyer 's acceptance of the goods or services will also amount to acceptance of the seller 's terms , and they will govern the contract . |
| 47 | Some of these packets have very low energy — and these correspond to radiation with extremely long wavelength ; and some packets have very high energy — which correspond to radiation of short wavelength . |
| 48 | Tracks labelled ‘ con ’ correspond to digestion of DNA in the absence of the antibiotic , those labelled ‘ 0 ’ correspond to digestion in the presence of 20µM actinomycin without addition of the unlabelled competitor DNA . |
| 49 | T n tracts ; the only strong bands correspond to cleavage of the central TTGCA . |
| 50 | The bends lie at the centres of the met boxes , and correspond to compression of the major groove to a width of 9.4 around the bound repressor β -ribbons , and opening of the opposite minor groove to 8.3 . |
| 51 | The 25° bends centred on the repressor sites correspond to compression of the major groove around the bound proteins . |
| 52 | Some people tend to sort of think of functions and mapping as being the same thing . |
| 53 | You know we tend to sort of hover outside lodge meetings a bit you know cos it is all men you know and It 's quite frightening really you know I mean this sort of erm I think the way the finances are worked for instance er . |
| 54 | If anybody comes to say , and you tend to sort of say well what do you really want to talk about , er , and do that . |
| 55 | You tend to sort of I 'd like to book a table for two |
| 56 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 57 | I 've actually the last time I got some delivered for me was February so I tend to sort of get something about once a month I think . |
| 58 | You get there and there 's , there 's not that much pressure so you tend to sort of think ah . |
| 59 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 60 | In this case what results is a revolt of consumers who turn to production of iconoclastic , avant-garde or radical production . |