Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to an [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale . |
| 2 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |
| 3 | This is rather unstable , and it usually comes to an end in a funeral . |
| 4 | The principle of orality clearly belongs to an age in which the speedy production of multiple copies of documents was a slow labour-intensive exercise . |
| 5 | The fiscal evidence also points to an increase in its wealth in relation to the country as a whole : between 1334 and 1515 the assessed wealth of the city increased fifteenfold in absolute terms , and from 2 per cent to 8.9 per cent of the assessed wealth of the nation as a whole ( 101 ) . |
| 6 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 7 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 8 | These examples , and many others like them , make it necessary for us to ensure that whatever reward we are offering a child actually leads to an increase in his desirable behaviour and whatever punishers we are offering actually lead to weakening of an undesirable behaviour . |