Example sentences of "to [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day , it just goes to show that there are many different approaches to simulating various aspects of football . |
| 2 | But this is n't getting us any closer to simulating natural selection . |
| 3 | The Wimbledon finalist hurled his shirt to cheering Croatian fans after reaching the semi-finals with a 6-7 , 6-7 , 6-4 , 6-4 , 8-6 win over Frenchman Fabrice Santoro . |
| 4 | We began to pick up speed in our responses to unfolding human rights crises . |
| 5 | Subsequent chapters are devoted to mastering various techniques and manoeuvres . |
| 6 | You will be examined in Perth , with a view to preferring formal charges . |
| 7 | It is not , however , a fully comprehensive guide to nursing orthopaedic patients , as the psychosocial aspects of care are only briefly addressed . |
| 8 | He 's top of the A&R man 's list when it comes to nursing young guitar bands through their first , tentative studio steps . |
| 9 | Indeed , if anything , there had been a decline in the number of obstacles to building new houses . |
| 10 | Unless adequate attention is paid to building robust institutions that promote internal competition and offset the lack of commercial experience or knowledge in the political system , privatisation will merely transfer privilege and feather-bedding from one group to another . |
| 11 | For semiconductor makers not already committed to building 16-megabit production lines , the case for going straight for the 64-megabit device looks increasingly attractive . |
| 12 | The record industry 's response to this situation was not particularly systematic but by now some trends are obvious : the average age of the pop market ( and especially the pop single-buying market ) is younger than it was ; record companies devote more attention to building big mainstream stars than to servicing a variety of musical tastes ; stars are now conceived and sold as multi-media performers ; there has been a steady decline in the significance of live music making except as a promotional device . |
| 13 | DASA reckons Airbus is best suited to building large airliners , not small ones . |
| 14 | They should not be discharged immediately they reach their target weights , but should become accustomed to eating normal meals rather than the high-energy diet necessary for weight gain . |
| 15 | the report also looks at the health risks linked to eating excess sugar , notably sucrose and sugar-based sweeteners . ’ |
| 16 | People vary considerably as to how much gas or wind they produce in response to eating different types of foods . |
| 17 | My mother said it was due to eating imported meat , particularly Argentinian . |
| 18 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 19 | When she 's used to eating red hot curries |
| 20 | The tongued and grooved joints , in addition to allowing concealed fixing with neat joint lines and removing the need for grouting , negate the need for special skills thus reducing installation costs . |
| 21 | On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research . |
| 22 | Labour is committed to the restoration of the worst of the industrial relations abuses , to allowing flying pickets , unofficial strike action and secondary strike action , which all lost jobs in the past . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the government , in addition to allowing local authorities to provide school meals from 1906 , had recognised the parental responsibilities of certain income tax payers and men in the armed forces . |
| 24 | When it came to naming particular issues , however , it was difficult to predict who would name which issue . |
| 25 | During the 1970s , the critic and novelist Jean Ricardou attempted to foster a greater sense of group identity by bringing together Butor , Pinget , Robbe-Grillet , Sarraute , Simon and Claude Ollier at the famous Cerisy conference ( 1971 ) , in addition to organizing separate colloques devoted to Claude Simon ( 1974 ) and Robbe-Grillet ( 1975 ) ; however , his endeavour to formulate a theoretical programme met with greater resistance . |
| 26 | ‘ It was great fun and it was nice to met other people not involved in the services . ’ |
| 27 | Seaweed Meal : Available in small quantities after transformation by worms to produce an organic compost and appeals to those averse to using inorganic chemicals . |
| 28 | However , it was not to be autonomous , as the committee wanted ; instead , discussions would be held with bodies such as TEC and BEC with a view to using existing validation schemes . |
| 29 | As it happened both Washington and Beijing were learning some of the skills of crisis management ( as well as " brinkmanship " ) , although a biographer of Eisenhower writes that the United States " came closer to using atomic weapons " in this crisis than at any other time in his presidency . |
| 30 | Carax describes the whole experience as ‘ hell ’ and is surprised that he did n't have to resort to using Super 8 . |