Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emphasising that " the key to a peaceful solution lies in the hands of Afghans themselves " , he said nevertheless that the talks had been made possible by the " new , positive and changing " United States attitude , a comment widely regarded as a reference to recent US congressional moves to cut aid to the mujahedeen by 10 per cent . |
| 2 | The Excess Profits Duty was widely regarded as a concession to mounting concern over profiteering ( Maguire 1987 ) , but the decision to levy it on societies posed fundamental questions about the nature of the cooperative enterprise . |
| 3 | The process of economic convergence , which after all is at the heart of plans for economic and monetary union , will be greatly eased by a return to positive economic growth in Europe and in the more immediate future by lower German interest rates . |
| 4 | The following pattern is only given as a guide to what to do , so that you can adapt it to suit your own yarn and jumper pattern , if necessary . |
| 5 | The report of the Third Committee that dealt with the topic , Population and the Family , for instance , while noting that " high infant mortality was especially recognized as a deterrent to fertility decline " and , consequently , two recommendations to this effect were adopted by the World Population Plan of Action , also mentioned that " It was widely acknowledged that the ability to determine the number and spacing of children influences family well-being , partly because of the effect upon the health of both mothers and children . " |
| 6 | The author seemed somewhat stumped for a reply to such an unusual question and stared into the camera , as if in search of inspiration . |
| 7 | While the above advantages are undeniable , and would all have a positive bearing on the regulation of insider dealing , self-regulation is better seen as a complement to , rather than as a replacement of , formal regulatory measures . |
| 8 | It is less persuaded of a trend to earlier retirement but has assumed an average fall in the retirement age of two years by 2010 . |
| 9 | The defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa , suddenly called for a return to constitutional rule . |
| 10 | The non-university institutions have more mature entrants , more without formal qualifications , more from social classes III-V , their effective length of course is shorter , and they will be less affected by a switch to longer science and engineering courses than will the university sector . |
| 11 | The reshuffle of airwaves was a political decision , taken in the interests of allowing commercials use of a natural resource long allocated as a monopoly to the BBC . |
| 12 | The legal action came after Mr McArdle , a solicitor with offices in Hartlepool , Sunderland and Darlington inadvertently stepped on a train to which his tickets did not allow him admittance last autumn ( the tickets were as usual in BR-speak and difficult fully to comprehend ) . |
| 13 | classification the classification to be given to the volume ; this is only retained as a reminder to the user of the overall volume classification . |
| 14 | But first … ’ she paused in mid-stride , looking back enquiringly , ‘ you 'd better put in a call to the police . ’ |
| 15 | A weekend break in London provides a good opportunity to take full advantage of the sales , perhaps combined with a visit to the theatre . |
| 16 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 17 | On Jan. 9 , however , only days after it had begun , the Brazilian Justice Minister , Gen. Saulo Ramos , announced that the operation had ended , a decision widely seen as a concession to mining interests . |
| 18 | However , the move was widely seen as a concession to the President , Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema . |
| 19 | The reforms were widely seen as a reaction to public controversy over insider trading practices sparked by the emergence in January 1989 of the Pechiney affair [ see pp. 36403 ; 36706 ] . |
| 20 | Widely seen as a sop to Bush 's conservative Republican critics , the directive was publicly disavowed on Nov. 21 by presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater who avowed that Bush had not seen it before it was sent out . |
| 21 | A former world karate champion , Hashim Baddridine , also Sudanese , was charged with the attack , which had reportedly left Turabi badly injured from a blow to the side of his head . |
| 22 | On the one hand I needed to stress the bus driver 's evidence in order to bolster my case , which was that Carella had somehow stumbled on a clue to Moro 's whereabouts . |
| 23 | This invariably only occurs when the mulch is allowed to pack and remain undisturbed — mulching is not intended as a boon to lazy gardening by putting an end to the need for hoeing . |
| 24 | It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating . |
| 25 | They are not examined with a view to appraisal which might require adjustments to concepts of syllabus design to accommodate them . |
| 26 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 28 | However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner . |
| 29 | Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians . |
| 30 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |