Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 2 | His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections . |
| 3 | With a very limited manufacturing base and agricultural production of foodstuffs insufficient to feed the country , Zambia became highly exposed to the vagaries of international markets . |
| 4 | The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed . |
| 5 | This type of maze allowed David Olton in Baltimore and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel ( both expatriate Americans , then working at University College , London , though Nadel has since returned to the US , to Tucson , Arizona ) to distinguish between working and reference memory cues in learning the task . |
| 6 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 7 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 8 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 9 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 10 | His enthusiasm has obviously appealed to the party faithful . |
| 11 | The tour 's prestige refereeing appointment , the Barbarians game at Twickenham on 25 November , has rightly gone to the world 's best , Clive Norling . |
| 12 | SIR Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , comes from Anglo-Irish Protestant stock in Co Cork , and has long aspired to the testing role he has won . |
| 13 | A similar settlement seems likely at Weston-under-Penyard , where the widespread mass of slag and many furnaces has long pointed to the exploitation of iron from the Forest of Dean . |
| 14 | Much of the village , the church , farm and the surrounding land of Stanton Lacy has long belonged to the Oakly Park estate , whose mansion lies two miles south on the River Teme . |
| 15 | The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’ |
| 16 | H. raised his special grievance , but his complaint published in the Sunday Express has only added to the completeness of his downfall … |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher has merely utilized to the full the scope for untrammelled power latent in the British Constitution but obscured by the hesitancy and scruples of previous , consensus-based , political leaders . |
| 18 | The stereotyped view of a homeless person used to be of a drunkard who has slipped into the gutter as a result of a lifetime 's fecklessness and , more recently , the visible evidence of frankly mentally disordered people on city streets , the phenomenon of ‘ Cardboard City ’ and the increasing numbers of people sleeping rough has merely added to the belief that most homeless people are destitute wrecks or foolish youths . |
| 19 | Like a wilting flower the half-span has gently sagged to the ground . |
| 20 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 21 | After Danny de Vito showed his skills as a director in Wars of the Roses he used his leverage with the money-men to bankroll a long-cherished project which has finally come to the screen as Hoffa . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 24 | Dominic Dromgoole , of the excellent Bush Theatre ; Julia Bardsley , co-director of the Leicester Haymarket , and Phyllida Lloyd , whose superb production of The Virtuoso at Stratford has just come to the Barbican , are just a few of the other names I could have included . |
| 25 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 26 | The finch has just crashed to the floor of its cage with its wing clasped in its beak ( not for much longer , chickabiddy ) and I take it as an omen . |
| 27 | A castle has just reopened to the public after nearly four years of restoration work . |
| 28 | Industry has already complained to the Department of the Environment that controls will not be effective unless the inspectorate is respected and cowboy companies are aware that they will be prosecuted . |
| 29 | He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown . |
| 30 | He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown . |