Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this he deduced that the boiler was too small and this led him on to wondering why the engine was so inefficient . |
| 2 | He argues that job evaluation is not the dire threat some make it out to be — simply because it may not catch on . |
| 3 | This traced itself back to John Merchant , a Fleming given a permit almost 100 years earlier , in 1492 , to export 50 tuns of ‘ ale called berre ’ to the Low Countries . |
| 4 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 5 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 6 | The front panel controls are identical for both channels , except for the centrally located stereo link switch ( pressing this hands everything over to the channel A controls ) and the power switch . |
| 7 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 8 | And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology . |
| 9 | This leads us on to a third important point about the relation of the Holy Spirit to Jesus . |
| 10 | This leads us on to acceptance sampling . |
| 11 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 12 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 13 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 14 | This takes us back to explanations similar to those suggested for the variation in group size early in these studies ( Crook and Gartlan 1966 ) but these do not account for the massive gregariousness of the species under optimum conditions when a more even dispersion of the population would reduce the costs of foraging . |
| 15 | This takes us back to appraisal methods . |
| 16 | This takes us back to Yablonsky 's useful distinctions . |
| 17 | He has promised to contact Ron direct to keep him up to date . |
| 18 | Peace Corps was willing to send me off to Honduras , but I did n't feel right about it . |
| 19 | But then I saw my pitman Liam Beckett giving frantic signals and this brought me back to my senses , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | But then I saw my pitman Liam Beckett giving frantic signals and this brought me back to my senses , ’ he explained . |
| 21 | Palmer now thought about testing the idea , and this brought him back to his original thoughts about the helium . |
| 22 | This put me on to finals with the trim wound fully aft , and I was able to further check the aircraft 's inherent stability by moving hands and feet from the controls for several seconds — the Aircoupe continued down the slope as on rails ( there was little wind or turbulence ) before a gentle flare demonstrated another safety feature . |
| 23 | George half carried , half dragged her back to the car . |
| 24 | This brings him back to another of Mr Major 's weekend promises , to give people more of a stake in their local administration : ‘ If they are going to bring local government closer to people , it has got to be more responsive to the wishes of people , and less to the wishes of central Government . |
| 25 | This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races . |
| 26 | This brings me back to my main theme , the need for more concentrated and co-ordinated work on manufacture and distribution , for without it , we will never fully understand the history of the development of the coarse wares , stylistically or chronologically . |
| 27 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 28 | This brings us on to comparing the trust remedies with those discussed before . |
| 29 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 30 | But there is yet one further narrowing of the meaning of STYLE to consider , and this brings us on to more controversial ground , where different definitions of style involve conflicting views of the use of language in literature . |