Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should insurance cover be overall , or just limited to high risk sensitive areas like the City ? |
| 2 | They will exchange opinions , becoming united in their views or strongly opposed to each other . |
| 3 | Locke , although not opposed to corporal punishment as a final sanction , nor indeed for very young children of an age too tender to be reasoned with , in order to instil the necessary fear and awe that a child should have for an adult , strongly disapproved of beating once formal education had begun , just as he was equally opposed to bribing the child to work through material rewards . |
| 4 | St Mary 's , although nearly repaired to satisfactory condition , still needs a new use . |
| 5 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 6 | The Hotel Proprietors Act of 1956 defines a hotel as ‘ an establishment offering food and drink and sleeping accommodation if so required to any traveller who appears able and willing to pay for services and facilities provided ’ . |
| 7 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 8 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 9 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 10 | the Policyholders Employer in respect of any motor car ( not belonging to and not hired to such Employer ) in connection with which indemnity is provided by Sub-Section 1 of this Section being used in accordance with the ‘ Description of Use ’ . |
| 11 | Picture a stained , dirty-looking straight-brim hat worn almost Indian-fashion , that is , uncreased and not cocked to either side , except his brim was curled some and there was a little dent down the crown . |
| 12 | In Western market economies the law has underpinned the market and thus contributed to economic development . |
| 13 | The paper , he said , moved the argument against mining on environmental grounds one step further by suggesting that the world could not afford the ecological price of meeting its present demand for mineral resources , and by arguing that the mining industry was a profligate user of energy and thus contributed to global warming . |
| 14 | They categorised all applicants , genuine or otherwise , who were unable or unwilling to specify their long term intentions , as necessarily falling outside the ambit of the rules and thus doomed to inevitable failure when applying for entry clearance . |
| 15 | • The message is brief — Shelleyan Orphan are alive and well and still signed to Rough Trade , who , in mid-October , will be releasing an album that answers to the name of ‘ Humroot ’ . |
| 16 | Consumption ( C ) and savings ( S ) are both directly and linearly related to disposable income ( Y d ) . |
| 17 | And thirdly related to that point , with there were a lot of existing members in this area anyway . |
| 18 | The growing importance of lager , which offers similar advantages to the nationals as bottled beer and keg beers in the past ( i.e. a standardized product offering considerable manufacturing economies of scale and well suited to national advertising and distribution ) . |
| 19 | They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug . |
| 20 | That it was erected , operated for a short while and then reverted to ignominious dereliction are all true . |
| 21 | The Newbury Railway was originally laid to Brunel 's broad gauge and then relaid to standard gauge and is now being revived with a track gauge of two foot . |
| 22 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 23 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 24 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer and then converted to electronic form to allow further processing . |
| 25 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 26 | Uses a ‘ sponge and dough ’ process ; part of the dough is left for 24 hours and then added to new dough . |
| 27 | Pictures were started , had money thrown at them , and then put to one side . |
| 28 | Ata'i writes that Molla Abdulfettah , having been appointed to the Seyfeddin medrese in Ankara with 50 akce , was dismissed and then restored to that medrese " with [ an ] judgement " ( that is , that the medrese was to be judged to be in the and treated accordingly ) and continues : " His became and , by reason of the esteem [ due to/shown to a ] [ muderris ] , the mouth of his hope smiled . " |
| 29 | Each model is thus seen to be independently inserted into the reference space and then attached to each other . |
| 30 | Sumner was educated at Eton and Christ Church , Oxford , where he read classics and then changed to modern history , being awarded second-class honours in 1874 . |