Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A desk with an adjustable sloping top is useful as it provides storage space too , but probably the most practical aid , especially as the pupil progresses into secondary school , is a light , portable reading stand that can be easily taken from room to room as required . |
| 32 | HIV is not easily passed from person to person . |
| 33 | It will become clear that this debate is a mirror-image of the excess burden argument already discussed with respect to taxation . |
| 34 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 35 | His plight is movingly described without recourse to glorification or undue sympathy . |
| 36 | Other products and processes pioneered by Vlitos and his team — including the process of turning sugar into alcohol , now widely used in Brazil to power cars , and in Mauritius and Honolulu to light the streets — were sold or given away while T&L persisted with sucralose . |
| 37 | Once again the language is vital to the analysis , for the term ‘ juggling ’ is widely used in relation to detection rates and carries with it an understanding that what is happening belongs to a world where movement conceals as often as it reveals . |
| 38 | To the extent that these ways of behaving are inherited from the mother , it can be hypothesized that they are not directly taught from mother to daughter : rather they are indirectly and unconsciously assimilated . |
| 39 | The matter was further considered in relation to Article 67 of the original version of the EEC Treaty in Case 203/80 Casati , which illustrates the other approach . |
| 40 | One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male . |
| 41 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 42 | Although the old post above Dili was still used from time to time , this port was no longer important as transports off-loaded Japanese air force and other supplies at Bancau stretching the areas to be watched by several hundred square miles . |
| 43 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 44 | Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ . |
| 45 | The balance had once more swung from centralisation to decentralisation , but the attempt to make doctors and nurses more accountable for resource decisions continued . |
| 46 | Yet though disco has never been short of ‘ Push push in the bush ’ and ‘ Ring My Bell ’ sentiments , voices of doom , correction , ‘ positive ’ lifestyle and spiritual inspiration have always reacted as counter-insurgents to disco 's erotic , dervish thrust . |
| 47 | My father was still forced from time to time to act as an interpreter , but from now on he spent much more time at home , rather than meeting his friends in the cafés for a game of cards . |
| 48 | As a label , Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market . |
| 49 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 50 | This widening definition of what it is to be human , couched in sociologically aware terms , runs throughout the responses , and is further expressed in attitudes to amniocentesis and abortion in subsequent pregnancies . |
| 51 | Industrial experience is gained through ‘ live ’ project work supported by local industry and is further informed by visits to manufacturing companies and retail outlets . |
| 52 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 53 | The life of this normally gentle giant of a man was also punctuated from time to time by acts of sudden , often inexplicable , violence , usually associated with an over-generous intake of alcohol . |
| 54 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 55 | At this stage it operates largely in the unconscious but it is soon partly modified by exposure to reality , that part becoming the ego . |
| 56 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 57 | Over the next 3 years the maturing Balsamic vinegar is carefully transferred from Mulberry to Chestnut to Juniper wood barrels . |
| 58 | Analysis of incidences of adenoma , carcinoma , and pseudomelanosis coli was also performed in relation to sex and age groups . |
| 59 | Add-on policies are also sold as supplements to household insurance . |
| 60 | Although it is recognised that performance review must be tailored to local circumstances , generalisations can be made and it is intended that a good practice guide be drawn up based on experience to date . |