Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |
| 2 | Natural philosophy , or that part of it which is physics , will already have dealt with man to some extent , in considering the phenomenon of sense-perception . |
| 3 | Psychology has recently gained the respectability it should always have had with respect to pain , for two completely irrelevant reasons . |
| 4 | He was appointed controller of the printing business of Oxford University Press in 1883 : the position later became known as printer to the university . |
| 5 | Yep , there 's been a lot of occasions in the last two to three months when I could really have done with access to a computer . |
| 6 | Emulation in turn stimulates the desire to retain differentials , which often becomes based upon access to knowledge about goods and their prestige connotations . |
| 7 | Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance . |
| 8 | But then Twiggy , who by now had switched from modelling to acting , came along and stole his heart . |
| 9 | On balance , though , if I were Burnham , I think I 'd rather stand accused of Intent to Titillate than Gross Inattention . |
| 10 | We might as well have gone on holiday to the Sahara Desert . ’ |
| 11 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 12 | Accordingly , since the beginning of 1958 , a succession of volunteers from Leslie Tilbury onwards have served as secretary to the Essex Federation , a post which would otherwise have been held ex officio by the tutor-organiser . |
| 13 | Adopting the theology of liberation , the main body of the Salvadorean church therefore became identified with opposition to the regimes in power during the 1970s . |
| 14 | But according to chairman D J Dace , without exchange rate variations , sales would actually have fallen from £2.7m to £54.6m . |