Example sentences of "[vb base] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do the institutions of retirement , the social norms of limited activity and poverty , and expectations of ill-health and disability suggest to ageing people that they are expected to do so ? |
| 2 | Adults grow to varying sizes , depending on food available , and lay eggs in late summer . |
| 3 | It is not surprising really , for carp are beautiful fish , they grow to large size , fight very hard , and are not too difficult to catch . |
| 4 | Rainout occurs when material is incorporated into cloud water droplets or ice crystals which eventually grow to sufficient size to overcome gravity and fall to the ground . |
| 5 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
| 6 | It was not a Roman tradition to commemorate youth or physical beauty , so Roman portraits , of the ‘ warts and all ’ school , appear to modern eyes reassuringly true to life and easy to understand . |
| 7 | Practice is in turn constrained by how material relations appear to human consciousness , including their contradictions . |
| 8 | Since differences of less than 1% can be shown to be statistically significant when working with large sample numbers , Woodley chose to comment on differences and trends that appear to meaningful rather than merely statistically significant . |
| 9 | Print your answers on a postcard and send to Final Analysis Video Contest ( Daily Mirror ) , Parkes Print , 86 East Avenue , Hayes , Middx. , UB3 2HR by October 9 . |
| 10 | Complete the coupon , cut out and send to Good Housekeeping , PO Box 50 , FREEPOST , Bromley , Kent BR2 9TT . |
| 11 | On the one hand you 've got everything , accounting-wise , you need to run a large company now , and on the other , the bits that make what you send to other people look professional are coming ‘ real soon now ’ in a later release . |
| 12 | Experience has shown that it is not enough to train PHCNs for a year and then send to isolated rural clinics . |
| 13 | Send to Ideal Home Lace Lady Bed Linen IH35 , Box 50 , Harlow , Essex CM17 0DZ . |
| 14 | Send to Ideal Home Table Linen Offer , . |
| 15 | Write the key letters — in ink — in the spaces on the entry coupon and send to IDEAL HOME/TINTAWN COMPETITION , , to arrive no later than 30 April 1991 . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to Blue Horizons . |
| 17 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 18 | We er You always made friends with people , could talk to people and if they want to miserable they can be miserable , you 'd got to tell them a tale , whether you know it or not . |
| 19 | The two directors of the company David Phillpot and Barry Fitzgerald remain with the business as executive controllers , and they both report to general manager Peter Lloyd . |
| 20 | Both men report to chief executive . |
| 21 | Can I say that sub-committees , as I understand it , report to main committees ? |
| 22 | In these circumstances , the RICS will have completely to relinquish control over curricula content to approved universities , polytechnics and colleges — a process which , as we have seen , is already under way . |
| 23 | The news that developing economies , whose costs are low , are bigger than previously thought will cause some Americans and Europeans to fear still more the threat they pose to local output and jobs , and to demand higher trade barriers to check the intrusion of these nouveaux riches . |
| 24 | They are , in effect , triggered off by very specific and local forms of social relationship and the threats they pose to everyday life . |
| 25 | Hanson ( 1980 ) , Koskela and Viren ( 1980 ) and Lawrence ( 1983 ) are all attempts to apply something like the Lucas ( 1973 ) test to different data sets . |
| 26 | A shift to simple wholesome living could bring long life to many more . |
| 27 | It is probable , however , particularly in the case of multiple fires , that priorities in the matter of water application and supply to different areas of the storage may alter during the progress of the fire . |
| 28 | Some Atlantic bryophytes such as Pleurozua purpurea ( common in many blanket bogs ) descend to low levels in the Western Isles . |
| 29 | On such occasions , there is a process of mutual education and stimulation which can at times descend to mere manipulation of the delegates by the leadership and can also rise to a high level of discourse about the basic problems confronting the nation . |
| 30 | Turn right along road for 300 yds , then left down tree-lined track and descend to derelict farm buildings . |