Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latest news on the job front adds to what has already been a good year for the town . ’ |
| 2 | Tracey adds to her notes : |
| 3 | Tracey adds to her notes : |
| 4 | The texts themselves are inspirational , but Beyer 's lettering style for this commission , which treated each letter as a piece of incised sculpture in its own right , greatly adds to their declamatory power . |
| 5 | Instead of protecting detainees , therefore , it simply adds to their number . |
| 6 | During their suffering the rabbits often become flyblown and this adds to their distressing appearance . |
| 7 | They both do a considerable amount of travelling , since Marie likes to check the Brasserie 's takings and George does n't want to lose touch with L'Auberge 's customers , and this adds to their fatigue . |
| 8 | Workers know this intuitively from their daily experience and this adds to their strain . |
| 9 | Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday said : ‘ The fact that these allegations are made in a book generally praising the conduct of British troops only adds to their seriousness . |
| 10 | This merely adds to their already strong sense of the senseless . |
| 11 | But the thing to remember is that this quality of form exists and that , whether readers acknowledge it or not , a marked shape or form , as in the " nursery rhyme " books of Agatha Christie , considerably adds to their pleasure . |
| 12 | For civil servants , the advantage is that the doctrine leaves them utterly free of any repercussions arising from their advice and thus greatly adds to their freedom and power . |
| 13 | And I know many older women who have found the kind of partnership that adds to their life rather than subtracts from it . |
| 14 | It adds to their stress . |
| 15 | If your boss listens , agrees with your suggestions and even adds to them , providing you found this ‘ nice ’ , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been positively reinforced . |
| 16 | Far from relieving the companies from burdens and expense it adds to them ; for those companies that take advantage of it will have to prepare two distinct sets of accounts and reports , the full version to circulate to their members and the expurgated version to be made available to the general public . |
| 17 | Places named sometimes after the dead , which adds to its beauty . |
| 18 | Safrane 's boot is big to start off and hatchback format adds to its versatility . |
| 19 | Sparcsystems were on display from a number of vendors : Ace K Computer is the sales arm of MicroHelios Ltd of Osaka , which recently announced a Sparcstation 10-compatible machine under the name HelioStation 1000 — this adds to its current Sparc-based Heliostation 400 series and both machines are imported and sold under an agreement with Axil Technology Inc , of San Jose , California , a relatively new player in the compatible market ; the prices are about 40% of the Nippon Sun retail price and the company looks to sell 1,500 of the things annually . |
| 20 | The moth 's physical appearance is not quite as wasp-like but it adds to its disguise by making a buzzing noise . |
| 21 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 22 | In insert mode , typing into an existing block of text pushes the old text aside and adds to it . |
| 23 | HERMS captures this associated data and adds to it spatial data generated in the CAD graphics data base . |
| 24 | Stephen Donaldson adds to his Gap series with number four , Chaos and Order ( HarperCollins , £14.99 ) , in hardcover and the third , A Dark and Hungry God Arises ( £5.99 ) , in paperback . |
| 25 | I suppose , in your time , a man can be as randy as he pleases ; it adds to his desirability ; proves he 's a real man … suitably virile . |
| 26 | Tuesday 's launch of Sunrise Midlands ' 24-hour service adds to his existing three radio stations . |
| 27 | In other words , if my goal is to please my partner , the more pleasure my partner receives , the more this adds to my pleasure . |
| 28 | There also seems to me to be some confusion of emphasis which which adds to my concern that in fact the Government policy talks about strict control of development away , and I emphasize the word away , from settlements . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't even got that far in the analysis of this new theory but it only adds to my doubts about it all anyway . |
| 30 | It adds to our reputation as an island still constricted by an ossified class system . |