Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage the FTSE was more than 14 points down in reaction to predictions about Government borrowing . |
| 2 | The determination by the material base having been displaced , the form of ideology ( distortion ) can no longer be explained merely by reference to contradictions in the material base although Habermas incorporates Marx 's critique of the commodity form of labour as ideology ( Habermas 1972 : 59 ) . |
| 3 | People may act differently in response to changes in taxation than to variations in earnings per se . |
| 4 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 5 | The studies are being carried out with reference to explanations for criminal acts and educational outcomes and are being explored in an inter-group context . |
| 6 | While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays . |
| 7 | This measure came largely in response to suggestions made to the government in April by representatives of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 8 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 9 | This definition was first developed and used in Chapter 2 and it can be applied directly without alteration to equities . |
| 10 | The Act regulates the use of automatically processed information about living , identifiable individuals ( personal data ) which is held on computers and other ‘ equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose ’ . |
| 11 | It would be mistaken , however , as much in fact as in fiction , to assume that our sense of living space alters exclusively in response to events in the outer world , although their influence is considerable , as has been suggested . |
| 12 | However , this itself does not indicate a " reciprocal " use of Creole , for similar refusals can occur elsewhere in response to requests not in Creole : |
| 13 | Governments may elect not to talk to governments but we scientists are an incurably gabby lot . |
| 14 | This model gave off a steady hum that allowed it to be used indoors without disturbance to neighbours . |
| 15 | Lessons should be easy to follow ; that is , the teacher should find it easy to keep his place when he has to look frequently from coursebook to students . |
| 16 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 17 | That power can be exercised only with regard to vessels flying the flag of the member state concerned or registered there . |
| 18 | Much of the committee 's and the JMU 's perception of the profession to date has been derived from early visits set up in response to doubts created by registration information and by JMU visits in response to complaints . |
| 19 | Students in the USA had to go out on placement to firms for training , and thus had a good grounding in practical embalming . |
| 20 | There were 5 18 seats in all , shared out in proportion to members ' population size . |
| 21 | Such a statement is analytic , whereas the truth of synthetic statements can be judged only by reference to facts of the world . |
| 22 | Elsewhere Southport Central , Sheffield Wicker , Leicester West Bridge , and Bradford Adolphus Street went over from passenger to goods traffic , when supplanted by more extensive terminals . |
| 23 | However , Mr Knapp believed rates in the UK would be cut further in response to moves in November 's Budget to control the ballooning borrowing requirement . |
| 24 | The defendants sought an order under a United States statutory provision dealing specifically with assistance to litigants in foreign courts . |
| 25 | These will be discussed only with reference to pavements of the main sample . |
| 26 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |
| 27 | Solicitors may be appointed to positions in industry , and remarks made previously in relation to barristers apply equally to solicitors . |
| 28 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |
| 29 | Many brochures have already been sent out in response to requests from advertising . |
| 30 | Food charges at the Married Unaccompanied Food Charge Rate are payable by personnel in Marital Categories 1 and 2 when occupying single accommodation and also by those in receipt of the special allowances mentioned above in relation to Categories 3 , 4 and 5 ’ . |