Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |
| 2 | Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8 ) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . |
| 3 | The Strip , at the westerly end of Sunset Boulevard and closest to the hub of the film industry , was the avenue for poseurs where every young hopeful — and plenty not so young — hung out to be discovered in one of the dozens of coffee bars that eventually gave way to rock ‘ n ’ roll clubs and then strip shows of the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 4 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 5 | We see no scientific justification for the statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides , nor do we find any direct evidence to support the contention that naturally occurring antibodies to monosialoganglioside are pathogenic . |
| 6 | Any child watching will have learned that even geniuses need to practice ( Jimi riffed even while cooking breakfast ) but that talent can be undone by sex and drugs . |
| 7 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 8 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 9 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 10 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 11 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 12 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 13 | The rewards and their distribution become a part of the social order and thus give rise to stratification ( Davis and Moore . |
| 14 | And just to add insult to injury , Doreen 's husband , Mike , had died two years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ A scientist can not be swayed by such fears and still remain time to science . ’ |
| 16 | The tribunal was told that Mr Nicholson had shown a vibrator to a class of teenage boys , and also invited pupils to chalk four-letter words on the blackboard and to shout-out ‘ the F-word ’ and other swear words . |
| 17 | His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism . |
| 18 | It says no doubt employers employers or other individuals will keep on pestering you , and probably add insult to injury , take heart . |
| 19 | He tells us in his autobiography that this decision produced a breakdown in his wife 's health , but it was all part of his efforts to become a pure Buddhist leader and hence bring benefit to burma . |
| 20 | Such battles as the abolition of additional charges made on telephones , gas and electricity bills , and now to add insult to injury , V A T. |
| 21 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 22 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it . |
| 24 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
| 25 | Conversely , platelets incubated with ‘ cholesterol-poor ’ liposomes showed a reduced cholesterol content and significantly reduced sensitivity to ADP . |
| 26 | It shows a more mundane but still corrupting insensitivity to liberty , a failure to grasp its force and place in modern democratic ideals … . |
| 27 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |