Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being unfit for service , and to escape the danger of bombing , Firbank moved to rooms in the High Street , Oxford , in October 1915 , and remained there until September 1919 . |
| 2 | I am afraid that the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) has a regrettable tendency not to bother with the facts , but to jump to conclusions in the immediate aftermath of any accident , before any of the facts are known to him or to anyone else . |
| 3 | The general analysis of the need for local government reorganisation was presented in straightforward terms relating to changes in the socio-economic geography of the country . |
| 4 | One of the problems with laser techniques however is that often the first excited atomic transition — to the next available energy levels of the atom — corresponds to energies in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum , which is as yet inaccessible to lasers . |
| 5 | ( Carse is still being recommended to students in the recent literature . ) |
| 6 | Young men and women with honours degrees or postgraduate degrees can be appointed as ‘ legal trainees ’ and be articled to solicitors in the Legal Service , normally after obtaining exemption from passing or obtaining exemption from the C.P.E. An appointment as Legal Assistant follows admission as a solicitor . |
| 7 | However , because of the increased numbers of applicants applying to polytechnics in the past few years , it will most probably decide to implement such a scheme . |
| 8 | Again , by implication , since no such provision is applied to proceedings in the High Court or county court , time in those proceedings does not run from the date when the demand is served or becomes operative . |
| 9 | It has therefore been applied to manufacturers in the conventional sense : retailers , wholesalers , repairers of products ( such as garages ) , assemblers and those who hire and lease goods . |
| 10 | May it not be the mission of Buddhism today to lead the world back to moral values and to help people everywhere to find an ethic , related to conditions in the modern world , which will gain acceptance and inspire right effort ? |
| 11 | The findings observed in this study are most probably related to differences in the fat composition of the diets . |
| 12 | Some of these can be directly related to changes in the general social relations of cultural production . |
| 13 | Can they be related to changes in the personal income tax and social security system ? |
| 14 | The growing power of campaign funding and its effects are also related to changes in the American political and social system which help to facilitate these effects . |
| 15 | To be theoretically consistent , increases in electoral support for the party need to be related to changes in the local social structure . |
| 16 | It has a theoretical structure which allows for the possibility of a variety of ‘ racisms ’ , depending upon how various elements of ‘ race ’ , ethnicity and nationality are combined , how they are articulated with gender and class , and how they are related to theories in the natural and social sciences and notions in popular culture and common sense . |
| 17 | The PIMS data still give some cause for puzzlement over the question of investment intensity , however , because Buzzell and Gale show that five-year averages of ROI are highly positively related to increases in the long-term value of the business , both being closely and positively associated with initial competitive position . |
| 18 | According to sources in the Federal police in Belgrade , Mr Svetozar Zecar , head of the Federal Commission , was approached by Philip Wilson , one of the share-holders in the treasure and son of the late Peter Wilson , the Chairman of Sotheby 's who played a leading role in its acquisition , and offered a deal : two Sevso vessels or a large lump sum of a percentage of the sale profits . |
| 19 | Baroness D'Ludinghausen , who now lives in Paris and works for the well-known firm of Yves Saint Laurent , has according to reports in the Russian press already managed to persuade a number of notable patrons to participate in the fund , including the Princess of Jordan . |
| 20 | Any hold-up is potentially damaging to patients in the long run . ’ |
| 21 | So long as Finland remained tranquil , Menshikov was prepared to listen to advisers in the Grand Duchy who put the interests of the local population before those of Russia . |
| 22 | Silos are used to store fresh grass which is fed to cattle in the cool winter months when grass stops growing . |
| 23 | Where the claim which the Sailors and Firemen had made to shipowners in the previous July was concerned , Havelock Wilson already knew the Federation 's response . |
| 24 | A sterner note prefaced another statement of intent , the setting up of a Standing Committee on Criminal Law Revision : ‘ In order that those deserving punishment shall not escape owing to defects in the criminal law ’ . |
| 25 | The long-term decline in the participation of older people , particularly older men , in the workforce can not be attributed to changes in the individual characteristics of older people themselves — their health , attitudes to work and so on . |
| 26 | In these cases the fossils show that these features have developed through an ordered series of transformations leading to conditions in the jawed vertebrates . |
| 27 | Talking to Stuart Watson revealed that he is n't fond of the membrane switches either , and plans to revert to buttons in the near future . |
| 28 | This can be misleading ( e.g. a road shown as a line 1 mm thick on a 1 : 50000 scale map implies a width of 50 m on the ground — an obvious exaggeration ) and as a result leads to difficulties in the digitizing process . |
| 29 | In Japan the securities industry , whose profits have been built on shares sold to housewives in the Japanese equivalent of Tupperware parties , is desperately worried that last year 's stockmarket crash may have brought the party to an end . |
| 30 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |