Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enclosure of a large stamped addressed envelope will of course be appreciated by any of the organisations you may wish to write to for information , booklets or advice on your own problems or those of your parent . |
| 2 | The addresses to write to in Northern Ireland are : |
| 3 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) The matters adverted to in question ( 4 ) do not affect the answers given to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) . |
| 5 | Of the other offences adverted to in this chapter , the crime of threatening to kill is extended to threats to cause serious personal harm ( cl. 65 ) ; administering a substance without consent ( cl. 73 ) and assault to resist arrest ( cl. 77 ) are redrafted . |
| 6 | Their goals switched the spotlight back on the Ipswich title challenge as they moved to within seven points of their rivals and had their odds halved from 50-1 to 25-1 . |
| 7 | NORWICH moved to within a point of the top of the table in a scrappy match against relegation-haunted Oldham — but looked a long way short of genuine championship class . |
| 8 | I moved to from Nelson and that 's when I was big . |
| 9 | When another vehicle approached to within fifty yards , both would turn their lights off , and pass each other in total darkness . |
| 10 | The depth and fervour of public response seriously threatens the stability of a new and uncertain government committed to at least a show of support for the US . |
| 11 | But once families are committed to at least one child and all the disruptions of career and household which inevitably follow , they are then inclined to have the second child that most expect , and are expected , to produce . |
| 12 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 13 | The maxim of hygiene in the garden is rigidly adhered to at Snowshill . |
| 14 | Rigid plans that only work if they are adhered to at every step rarely provide the means for getting back on target once a significant deviation has occurred . |
| 15 | Rather , in most ordinary kinds of talk these principles are oriented to , such that when talk does not proceed according to their specifications , hearers assume that , contrary to appearances , the principles are nevertheless being adhered to at some deeper level . |
| 16 | Like so much that was sacred at Canterbury , it was all hearsay , and all the more violently adhered to on that account . |
| 17 | However , there had been a long and consistent course of dealing which was adhered to on this occasion . |
| 18 | Although there is much to support this view of the origin of our modern idea of time , it is now realized that it can only be adhered to with some reservations , as we shall see . |
| 19 | They all had permits and the rules were strictly adhered to with a heavy fine for intruders . |
| 20 | Version 9 will include all the specifications that must be adhered to for those designing and implementing 64-bit Sparc technology . |
| 21 | But however often these theories have been mooted they have never been adhered to for long . |
| 22 | It is felt that the conventional conveyancing procedure should be adhered to for the reasons stated in Chapter 3 . |
| 23 | Some on occasion are breached , while others are adhered to without exception . |
| 24 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 25 | Line A suggested maximum length 60metres ( 200ft ) was made but is not adhered to in practice . |
| 26 | In 1628 , William Laud persuaded Charles I to issue a declaration prohibiting all theological disputation and ordering that the Thirty-Nine Articles should be adhered to in their full and literal sense . |
| 27 | It is perhaps interesting to note that , despite the urgency of the situation , the convention that the accident investigation authority of one State communicates with the accident investigation authority of another State and the airworthiness authority of one State communicates with the airworthiness authority of another State was adhered to in the alerting procedure . |
| 28 | There is no need to hold that all human beings should always and only be approached using the interpretive action scheme , any more than the reverse claim makes sense if adhered to in all circumstances . |
| 29 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 30 | ( See also Sunley ( 1990 ) , and note that Griffin does not accept the above interpretation , but rather prefers one which sees the Nottinghamshire miners as determined to avoid splits within the union , which would have been the case if the rule-book , specifically Rule 43 — p. 107 — had been adhered to in 1984 . ) |