Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations . |
| 2 | So , research work closely related to developments in a single discipline such as communications or micro-electronics are more easily understandable , and may seem more applied and less esoteric than cross-discipline work . |
| 3 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 4 | I would humbly propose that the contemporary artist be laid to rest along with his works : a royal burial of the kind once given to emperors in eastern lands , whose slaves and worldly possessions accompanied them on their final journey into the unknown . |
| 5 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 6 | If the intellectual lead in the area of biology gradually switched to Germany in the course of the mid-century , Paris had already established the ideal framework through which to promote scientific research into animals and plants . |
| 7 | Difficulties in interpreting data on Eurocurrency often lead to problems in assessing the market 's economic influence . |
| 8 | Hares ( but not rabbits ) are particularly vulnerable to paraquat , a herbicide often applied to stubble in the autumn so that it can be easily burned . |
| 9 | He had a sense of inadequacy and at one point almost applied to colleges in order to get some qualifications . |
| 10 | Displacements of atoms during a molecular vibration therefore lead to distortions in the electric charge distribution of the molecule , which can be resolved into dipole , quadrupole , octopole , etc. terms in various directions . |
| 11 | Herringman probably retired to Carshalton in the mid-1690s , when his name no longer appears in the Poor Rate ledgers for the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields . |
| 12 | Paper documentation also leads to delays in servicing users especially when the data are being delivered over the network or online , but documentation must be photocopied and sent by post . |
| 13 | A reminder of this basic definition is necessary because partisans of the STV often refer to PR in loose and impressionistic terms . |
| 14 | In bureaucratic organizations the latter notion ultimately leads to situations in which a man can be called a ‘ manager ’ solely on the grounds that he supervises a certain number of people , and without regard to the degree of judgement or decision-making responsibility such supervision requires . |
| 15 | Their offer only applies to property in the home counties . |
| 16 | Although one object of having such ministries is that they can deal with problems in a manner specially suited to conditions in Scotland and Wales , the fact that the ministers belong to the UK Cabinet and are responsible to the UK Parliament means that there is considerable pressure for uniformity . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , Dorothy my dear , there is a poor dog absolutely stifling to death in a car outside . |
| 18 | But another modern man also comes to life in the eighteenth century : the ‘ collective man ’ . |
| 19 | Though not entirely restricted to Friends , it was an approach particularly appealing to people in whom quietist instincts remained strong both before and after the direct political involvement exemplified by the election of Joseph Pease to parliament in 1832 . |
| 20 | The relationship of information so obtained to processes in naturally occurring transition is sometimes debated . |
| 21 | These changes to the supply-side also lead to improvements in public sector budgetary positions , because of reductions in the costs of public procurement , and the growth of GDP which increases taxation revenues . |
| 22 | But the letter also refers to disturbances in the Northumbrian Church and among the Northumbrian people . |
| 23 | After the war he began commentating on radio then moved to television in 1951 . |
| 24 | Savage and city alike reduce to childishness in the final babel-like collapse , ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down . ’ |
| 25 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Captain Swift and his party are set adrift but the good fortune customarily accorded to characters in the right is this time acceded to those whom we must call villains . |
| 27 | The experience of becoming feminist inevitably leads to changes in one 's view of oneself , and in one 's view of the rest of the world . |
| 28 | The coin-slot fruit machines of the amusement arcades may be joined nowadays by sophisticated video-games and the age of the gambler may progressively decrease but the addictive disease remains the same just as when the younger generation sometimes turns to solvents in place of the addictive use of alcohol or tranquillisers in their parents . |
| 29 | On Monday , when Sara had left the house early to see to things in two of the toy shops on the other side of the county , he could find nothing at home that he felt up to doing . |