Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more . |
| 2 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 3 | Psychology 's obsession with behaviourism owes far more to the fashion for logical positivism emerging from physicists in the 1930s than to any understanding of the needs of psychology . |
| 4 | The breakdown of a laminar jet usually starts quite close to the orifice , where the velocity profile still depends on the details of orifice geometry and the flow upstream of it . |
| 5 | Basnett looks forward optimistically to the future which includes a meeting in Colombia planned for 1992 . |
| 6 | From Drewsteignton a steep lane drops to Fingle Bridge and from here the route heads upstream along the gorge , picking its way through woodland which grows thickly right to the water 's edge . |
| 7 | It excludes the interpretation that the door shut of its own accord , and so leads more explicitly to the conclusion that the door was shut by the shopman . |
| 8 | A single , 50 metre abseil from the peg leads more quickly to the top of the final couloir , which is followed in three full abseils to the Charpoua Glacier . |
| 9 | If the answer leads very naturally to the truth , it is nevertheless mistaken , as is shown by the philosophically familiar but evergreen fact that certain items constitute an instance of such a uniform connection or constant conjunction , but the second is not the effect of the first . |
| 10 | This one sentence from the notebooks goes straight home to the novel which eventually got written . |
| 11 | Elizabeth attends most closely to the furniture at Pemberley where it suggests Mr Darcy 's affection for his sister . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |
| 13 | Buzan claims that this pattern of note-taking conforms more closely to the pattern of our thinking and is , therefore , more useful for later recall , for preparing tutorial questions or revising a topic for an exam . |
| 14 | It was my view that float fishing would not be a good idea anyhow , for I did not know of any big bream swims close enough to the bank for a float cast . |
| 15 | The operator can write , run and debug programs by ‘ driving ’ the simulated controls and the simulator responds appropriately even to the extent of execution times . |
| 16 | But can it , as it swings even further to the right , be a vehicle for social change any more ? |
| 17 | At Spean Bridge , however , it turns sharply uphill to the Commando Memorial and then descends to follow the Great Glen to Inverness . |
| 18 | One should not overlook the desirability of having the railway line , which goes fairly directly to the station on a Regional Railways route and one should not overlook the importance of having a radial road which does not go through or otherwise influence villages between it and the centre of York . |
| 19 | Keep bulk feedstuffs as close to the farmyard as possible |
| 20 | However , crime has been displaced recently at the centre of race politics by another issue which points equally effectively to the incompatibility of different cultures supposedly sealed off from one another forever along ethnic lines . |
| 21 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 22 | A system of ‘ ideological politics ’ relates most clearly to the model of ‘ representative government ’ . |
| 23 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 24 | The Boston text relates more exclusively to the movement itself and includes , along with historical material , a brief statement by Mark Francis which is intended to justify and explain the motives behind the exhibition ( the Situationists did not give the event their blessings and none of the past members participated in its planning ) . |
| 25 | The Captain stops writing and listens more intently to the speaker on the wall — the PIN net has got a lot busier all of a sudden . |
| 26 | On attaining the summit , it 's a bit of a shock to see how far down the ridge drops round the lip of the corrie before climbing back up to Aonach Beag , but it snakes invitingly away to the east , presenting an irresistible walkway into untamed terrain . |
| 27 | This fact , linked to the evidence that a high proportion of defective issues are suffering from use-related types of damage — such as detached boards and loose pages — points very strongly to the conclusion that the routine vetting of material supplied to readers should have a major role to play in the selection of items for repair and refurbishment . |
| 28 | Our model predicts that such an object disrupts so close to the surface that its fragments crater the surface as if from a coherent object , consistent with the appearance of Meteor Crater . |
| 29 | A large shaft station was blasted out at the rock shaft at Deep Level ( see Fig. 14 ) and the work revealed a bonus in the form of a nice bunch of ore on a narrow quartz vein — Dry Gill Vein — which at that point runs approximately parallel to the Bonsor Vein . |
| 30 | Orford Ness ( Steers , 1953 ) is a spit of a different type : instead of departing from the coast at a marked angle , it runs roughly parallel to the coast for its entire length ( Fig. 8.27 ) . |