Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet recent research has shown that the village was the centre of a great late Saxon estate that once extended north-east to Towcester , south-east to Buckingham , north to Chipping Warden and west perhaps well into Oxfordshire , and was also the site of a great Saxon minster church . |
| 2 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 3 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 4 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 5 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 6 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 7 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 8 | The tribunal was told that Mr Nicholson had shown a vibrator to a class of teenage boys , and also invited pupils to chalk four-letter words on the blackboard and to shout-out ‘ the F-word ’ and other swear words . |
| 9 | His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism . |
| 10 | The HCIMA helped to man the Industry Careers stand at Careers ‘ 92 in Manchester and London , and also provided advice to visitors to the Caterer & Hotelkeeper Careers Fair at the Connaught Rooms in October . |
| 11 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 12 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 13 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 14 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
| 15 | Conversely , platelets incubated with ‘ cholesterol-poor ’ liposomes showed a reduced cholesterol content and significantly reduced sensitivity to ADP . |