Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The king extracted grants of subsidies only with difficulty and was forced to concede more than he would have wished to both clergy and laity in return . |
| 2 | Housed in a 270m building , designed to partially resemble the form of a full-size Zeppelin structure , displays include relics from the ill-fated Hindenburg , an original Mercedes-Benz diesel engine from the LZ130 Graf Zeppelin , among many other airship-related exhibits . |
| 3 | Micro Twist is designed to effectively convert DB15 AUI Ethernet ports to 10BaseT . |
| 4 | Micro-sized transceivers are designed to effectively convert DB15 AUI Ethernet ports to thin coax or 10BaseT . |
| 5 | Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space . |
| 6 | GCHQ have analysed the signals and they are designed to completely confuse the whole system controlled from Bacton . ’ |
| 7 | They are not designed to exactly match the horses requirements . |
| 8 | But her clothes , make-up and hairstyle were not designed to please , but to impress . |
| 9 | The day 's cheese-making gets going at around 8am when Karen adds a specially prepared culture or ‘ starter ’ , which is designed to slowly increase the milk 's acidity . |
| 10 | Epoch Systems Inc , has released EpochBackup , software backup systems for Unix-based network environments : designed to automatically back up and restore files it also incorporates disaster recovery , library management and hierarchical storage management . |
| 11 | CC is designed to systematically convert one symbol or set of symbols into another . |
| 12 | While this might seem a basic requirement , it has resulted in a wide range of design criteria , each designed to fully respond to the environmental conditions . |
| 13 | It 's designed to gently exercise the small , delicate facial muscles to help prevent wrinkles and sagging . |
| 14 | PV-Wave is designed to visually display statistical and complex data by means of multi-dimensional graphics and tables . |
| 15 | Healthy exercise , rational recreation , better living conditions and temperance campaigns were all designed to morally arm the men against temptation . |
| 16 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 17 | Hollis will head an initiative — ‘ Safety : the next level ’ — designed to further increase the XEU focus on HSE matters . |
| 18 | Hollis will head an initiative — ‘ Safety : the next level ’ — designed to further increase the XEU focus on HSE matters . |
| 19 | In particular , policies designed to further the employment prospects of women need to be informed by such an understanding . |
| 20 | ‘ These plans are designed to further the Government 's commitment to wider and deeper share ownership and to a successful sale of BT shares in 1993/4 , ’ said Stephen Dorrell , financial secretary to the Treasury , told a seminar of stockbrokers and other financial intermediaries . |
| 21 | I had therefore only my front to guard , and as the heavy cover nowhere approached to within less than twenty yards of my position I was quite safe . |
| 22 | Slater thinks little endian was added to support Microsoft Corp Windows NT , the operating system HP has n't committed to yet . |
| 23 | All the metropolitan dailies published in 1855 as well as in 1870 were committed to either the Liberals or the Conservatives ; the same was also broadly true of the English provincial daily press . |
| 24 | Citrine himself was fully committed to both slogans and saw no conflict between the two . |
| 25 | They 're already committed to too |
| 26 | The discourse analyst , with his ‘ ordinary language ’ data , is committed to quite a different view of the rule-governed aspects of a language . |
| 27 | While this was a huge boost to such manufacturers as Acorn and Research Machines , it meant that British schools still found themselves committed to relatively basic , 8-bit technology at a time when the rest of Europe was establishing a base of more powerful 16-bit MS-DOS technology . |
| 28 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 29 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 30 | Quasi-judicial functions , it was thought , were best committed to politically responsible Ministers rather than to courts because ultimately the required decision had to be made on policy grounds . |