Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 2 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 3 | Any analytic approach in linguistics which involves contextual considerations , necessarily belongs to that area of language study called pragmatics . |
| 4 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 5 | However , it seems possible that several of these words should label distinct properties or relations which however are necessarily related to each other in ways which the definitions articulate . |
| 6 | Hamburg 's reputation as a ‘ sin city ’ is entirely owed to this street in the St Pauli area , and rest assured its reputation is fully deserved . |
| 7 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 8 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 9 | Your decision here will obviously depend to some extent on whether you already have an aircraft radio and just how much you are prepared to spend on your first model . |
| 10 | Higher production , higher oil prices and increased interest income all contributed to this improvement in performance . |
| 11 | Someone had put on a record , slow , lazy music , and the couples on the floor were n't really dancing , merely clinging to each other like limpets , nuzzling each other 's necks . |
| 12 | Each species ' range is determined by the area within which it can outbreed potential rivals because it is better adapted to that set of conditions : |
| 13 | Those … who relapse into a culturally predominant style will find themselves rightly restricted to that part of the organisation where their culture prevails . |
| 14 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps they are just better suited to this sort of race and these headwinds , ’ added the man with a house 50 yards from the Thames at Putney . |
| 16 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 17 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |
| 18 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |
| 19 | Now the VHS manufacturers have designed a machine which can be manually switched to half speed during recording . |
| 20 | And we should perhaps add to this list of discourses the critical one which organises an anecdote , which may not have taken place at all , to re-iterate a point about Shakespeare and power . |
| 21 | He concludes : ‘ I am very sad that a friend can only write to another friend through a third country because of the border that separates us . ’ |
| 22 | Erm , if they start to have an illness and it develops we 'll obviously be talking to their doctor , I mean if it 's apparent that they 're blind on the form , well then , obviously we would looking the amount we paid , or , or , erm , basically come to some agreement on that . |
| 23 | Erm , groups of four , so we can use these pairs like this , so we can all talk to each other in a foursome . |
| 24 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 25 | Geophysical methods have been successfully applied to such mapping in two areas : at Coleorton , Leicestershire , where abandoned near-surface coal workings lie on the line of a new trunk road ; and at Hayle , Cornwall , where shafts of old copper mines were detected at the site of a new water-treatment plant . |
| 26 | Thus the question raised by the application is whether we should vary the appellant 's implied undertaking and free the documents for limited further disclosure having regard not only to the public interest underlying the implication of the undertaking in the first place , but also the public interest giving rise to the recognised immunity generally attaching to this class of documents . |
| 27 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 28 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |
| 29 | He was making sure they were not exposed to any form of light source , however muted . |
| 30 | He thus belongs to that school of thought that believes in the importance of the ‘ mark . ’ |