Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many similar examples can be found around the world , but in Britain there is substantial historical evidence which suggests that sharing with relatives outside the nuclear family in adult life has never been widely regarded as an ideal to be aimed for ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 2 | The training was not very comprehensive and was really only intended as an introduction to the cutters , but we all enjoyed ourselves as I recall , although a few of us with previous experience considered ourselves as veterans . |
| 3 | So Phormio 's action in making the alliance , though only a pawn penetration , was an offensive move against Corinth deep in her own , Adriatic , side of the colonial chess-board ; and it was perhaps defensively conceived with an eye to a further-flung Corinthian colony , Syracuse . |
| 4 | Both these stories were widely seen as an attempt to ‘ shoe-in ’ Gordon Brown rather than Smith in the event of a leadership vacancy , although Brown , it must be said , had no part in them . |
| 5 | Physical sports would probably be widely accepted as an exception to restrictive rules on consent , but two points must be borne in mind . |
| 6 | Erm , if the move on the was psychoanalytic issue , er despite the book being generally regarded as an embarrassment to psychoanalytic , is somewhat non . |
| 7 | In the March 1989 issue of Digest , Seitz posed the question , ‘ Is Greg Norman Overrated ? ’ replaced Jeff Sluman 's name with the like of Alf Padgham ( which I 'm sure was not intended as an insult to the Padgham family ) and concluded that Norman was , indeed , overrated — ‘ for now ’ . |
| 8 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 9 | Again , while these books are in the ‘ horror ’ genre which the twentieth century has made its own , they are not written without an eye to their context in literary history beyond their descent from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein and the Gothic novel . |
| 10 | Decentralisation is thus seen as an alternative to the bureaucratic practices that we investigated in the previous chapter . |
| 11 | Healthy development in women was thus signified by an attachment to their prescribed sphere and by the manifestation of moral virtue . |
| 12 | A group of ornithologists has just returned from an expedition to an arid area in Mexico in which you are keenly interested . |
| 13 | This rather authoritarian form of elitism was usually defended by an appeal to the ‘ sensitive ’ or ‘ discriminating ’ reader ; anyone who read closely and intelligently enough would be bound to agree with Leavis 's judgement . |
| 14 | A new lobby has been constructed deliberately set at an angle to the older part of the building , as an aid to disguising the ‘ join ’ between the two sections . |
| 15 | We have nonetheless put in an application to them for word-processing equipment , but this is obviously a one-off capital item . |
| 16 | From the disco veteran who speaks with fundamentalist passion about the centred sense of self-belief and release while dancing to Diana Ross ‘ Love Hangover ’ , to the fabric of self-realisation portrayed in Saturday Night Fever , disco has always functioned as an entrée to ecstasy ( with a small e ) and identity . |
| 17 | Endoscopic sclerotherapy as an alternative form of treatment for bleeding varices was first reported in 1939 in a young patient with extrahepatic portal vein occlusion and was eventually popularised as an alternative to surgery by the work of Johnston and Rodgers . |
| 18 | These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax . |
| 19 | As well as being an aid then , being cool is also seen as an obstacle to digging deep into the ultimate reserves under stringent conditions to produce a better performance . |
| 20 | Mike was charged with possessing and selling heroin , and she was later sentenced as an accessory to the crime . |
| 21 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 22 | He has also called for an election to a constituent assembly to be held within two months , to restore ‘ institutional democracy … as soon as possible . ’ |
| 23 | A document taken by the Garda Síochána ( the Irish police force ) from a leading republican , Sean Garland , in May 1966 , and later published as an appendix to the Scarman Report , contained a good deal of evidence of plans for intensive military training , but it also outlined some of the new political initiatives being taken by the movement . |
| 24 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 25 | Back at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire the Congregational Tabernacle 's Mutual Improvement Society resolved in November 1893 ‘ that the time has now come for an Organ to be obtained for the Tabernacle Services ’ . |
| 26 | Pyrolysis — the imposition of high temperatures upon material in the absence of oxygen — is often presented as an alternative to incineration . |
| 27 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 28 | For most positivist criminologists such concerns were often left to an appendix to their main causal concerns , or omitted altogether . |
| 29 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 30 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |