Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 2 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 3 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 4 | But visitors have reported intolerable conditions on many wards , patients locked up all day or even chained to walls as approved forms of correction . |
| 5 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 6 | If , as has been suggested above , insider evaluation is primarily associated with curriculum improvement , it comes as little surprise that proposals for particular approaches are directly or indirectly related to models of curriculum design and development . |
| 7 | His exact statement was that he ‘ had been assured by UPH that no profit of any description either directly or indirectly accrued to UPH from the transaction with Telecom ’ . |
| 8 | For example , subjects are often required to decide whether two stimuli are the same or different and then to respond on one key for " same " matches and on a second key for " different " matches ; or else to respond to instances of one kind of match and withhold responding to instances of the other kind ( a go/no.go discrimination ) . |
| 9 | There are certain opportunities that only occur to organisations with the necessary technical competence , market position or trading relationships . |
| 10 | Jenni Murray will be interviewing the excellent American actor Ed Asner ( above ) who , although best known to Brits as Lou Grant , has been involved in numerous political movements . |
| 11 | I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity . |
| 12 | They have been keen to put a distance between themselves and the negative image that still attaches to factors as ‘ lenders of last resort ’ . |
| 13 | But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants . |
| 14 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 15 | The new release creates tests that automatically adapt to changes in a graphical user interface such as buttons and menus moving or being re-sized . |
| 16 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | Have to think about it but the name that immediately springs to mind for most of them is Russell Grant . |
| 18 | Cute and sweet are not adjectives that readily spring to mind on surveying the stage wardrobe of Andi , the blonde frontwoman of local cover band Sunshine . |
| 19 | In a word-association test , joy , gioa , Gaudium et Spes , are not terms that readily spring to mind in his connection . |
| 20 | However , in a statement on July 23 , Shamir described Assad 's response as " a phenomenon similar to what happened in Egypt with President Sadat when a revolution occurred in his concepts that ultimately led to negotiations with Israel and to peace " . |
| 21 | It has the aim of enabling participants to understand the reality of each others ' lives , and thereby contribute to changes in both societies . |
| 22 | Thus new definitions of crime and new laws raise problems in the comparison of statistics on a ‘ before and after ’ basis , and thereby lead to problems in talking about rises or falls in crime . |
| 23 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 24 | She had been very ill and suddenly taken to hospital without Darren 's knowing why . |
| 25 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 26 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 27 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 28 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 29 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 30 | In the present study , the expression was used more frequently in the pooled with conditions than in the pooled and conditions , and thus corresponded to conditions in which plurals were less frequent . |