Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 2 | Carol A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 3 | ‘ The boat I 'm living on belongs to Mr Marshall . |
| 4 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 5 | However , ta'kwakomena not only refers to responsibility , but to personal autonomy in general . |
| 6 | In this environment , the true scientist 's heart naturally turns to thoughts of revenge . |
| 7 | It is also believed that the no-OSF/1 decision , made in the midst of the recent flurry of reorganisations that have left DEC somewhat muddled , was made — perhaps unilaterally — by Stone whose heart apparently belongs to Alpha and that its reversal is something of an internally staged palace revolt . |
| 8 | Neglect yourself and self-doubt begins to creep in and that swiftly turns to depression . |
| 9 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 10 | Today 's Law Lords judgement should keep Bridget O'Brien in her house , it will also mean that in future , a wife or partner only agrees to mortgage their home as security for a loan after being fully informed of the possible consequences . |
| 11 | This life history , which extends to 311 pages , deals mainly with the writer 's early life in Poland and his travels before coming to America ; in fact he only goes to America 17 pages from the end , at the age of 27 . |
| 12 | But you can not expect the taxpayers to provide extra help for one-parent families unless someone tries to ensure that the money only goes to families which really do have only one parent in them . |
| 13 | At a time of rising costs , he can make sure extra feed only goes to ewes that are in lamb . |
| 14 | The peasant economy provides a reserve of cheap labour for capitalism and so contributes to capital accumulation . |
| 15 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 16 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 17 | The body 's defence mechanisms against infection — immunity ( p. 82 ) — can usually cope with small numbers and the body only succumbs to infection when the invading numbers are large or when , for various reasons , resistance is lowered . |
| 18 | This means that in the OED only cross-references backwards or to entries published in the same fascicle are adequate , and in the Supplement , only cross-references to OED , to earlier volumes , and to the same volume ( usually ) are adequate . |
| 19 | Usually , it only happens to grown-ups . |
| 20 | Once such an island has become permanent , longshore drift takes place along the seaward side , and so leads to modification and complication of the initially simple form . |
| 21 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 22 | A trail marked with simple stone arches every half mile or so leads to Las Ruinas on top of each , but it 's easy to lose yourself in the maze of secondary trails which weave between the small fields . |
| 23 | This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest . |
| 24 | Being pessimistic usually only leads to problems . |
| 25 | The series aspect of any element is illustrated in the blow-up of figure 9.16(c) and application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to this aspect gives or This time note that it has been possible to neglect the change in the current phasor I over the infinitesimal element as it only leads to terms that are second order in smallness . |
| 26 | It only leads to rows — like the other night . ’ |
| 27 | This ruling caste has come to rely on Italy 's huge public sector as a patronage machine for rewarding friends and supporters , a system that not only leads to corruption but also acts as a break on much needed free market reforms . |
| 28 | Wilkinson illustrates his conclusion by suggesting that a comparison of the optical company and the plating company displays the folly of the notion that de-skilling and increased management control over production processes necessarily leads to increases in efficiency . |
| 29 | The debate only attends to executive power within the state and on the democratic ( or elected ) side of the state machine at that . |
| 30 | With the less elastic curve AS 1 , output only rises to Y 2 . |