Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Gower is bitterly disappointed not to have made the tour squad after virtually apologising to the Indian Cricket Board for alleging their bowlers scuffed the ball in the final Test at the Oval two summers ago . |
| 2 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 3 | The Government give as reason for not reverting to the 1988 arrangements the small number of convictions previously secured . |
| 4 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 6 | All Governments have failed in many respects in not giving to the British Council and the BBC World Service the resources that they merit . |
| 7 | I still think they 've got a lot of choice in there compared to the big one , I always think they 've |
| 8 | Thus , a quantum theory of gravity is essential if we are to describe the early universe and then give some explanation for the initial conditions beyond merely appealing to the anthropic principle . |
| 9 | Princess Diana is unlikely to ever return to the 12-bedroom country house she grew to loathe during her 11-year marriage . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you claim to be able to derive information from internal visual images which you believe to directly correspond to the phenomenal world . ’ |
| 11 | between support staff ( such as expecting SEN staff to focus on methods of achieving ‘ educational results ’ without also attending to the interactional emotional and behavioural context of learning failure , seen as the remit of pastoral care , counselling and the psychological services ) |
| 12 | He gave the scientist instructions on how to return to the main part of the school . |
| 13 | Less tangibly , but almost of equal importance , the newer migrants may obtain advice on how to adapt to the urban way of life with its newer and more ‘ sophisticated ’ ways . |
| 14 | Here is a tip on how to get to the robbing scouse gets . |
| 15 | While this might seem a basic requirement , it has resulted in a wide range of design criteria , each designed to fully respond to the environmental conditions . |
| 16 | Most banks , with the exception of the Co-op and Bank of Scotland , are undecided about how to react to the new law even though they have only two months to decide . |
| 17 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 18 | At even pace to the other wall again |
| 19 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 20 | There is a methodological issue worth drawing out here , for this business of replicating — or failing to replicate — someone else 's research findings is of course what ‘ the scientific method ’ is supposed to be about , at least according to the standard philosophy-of-science text-books . |
| 21 | Notice also that Keegan has hired as his assistant Terry McDermott , who may be equally lacking in management experience , but at least goes to the same hairdresser . |
| 22 | One might at least look to the best examples there may be today . |
| 23 | In the media which are also visual , a range of resources — physical appearance and the effective means of non-verbal communication — is at least added to the written or recorded form , and the effect is often more than addition ; it is a change of dimension which appears to restore presence , which for the alternative advantages of record and durability writing systems had moved away from . |
| 24 | No staff room or loo or anything I think we 're at least entitled to the odd bun ! |