Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Conversely , platelets incubated with ‘ cholesterol-poor ’ liposomes showed a reduced cholesterol content and significantly reduced sensitivity to ADP .
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