Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 2 | These and other questions emerged from a classical ethology primarily concerned with the evolution , motivation , and function of social signals but which began to focus on ecology as the adaptiveness of social structure to habitat gradually became apparent ( see Crook 1970b ; Crook and Goss-Custard 1972 ) . |
| 3 | Drawing from his experience of Japan , Johnson ( 1984 : p. 8 ) considered that this ‘ means the initiation and co-ordination of governmental activities to leverage upward the productivity and competitiveness of the whole economy and of particular industries in it … |
| 4 | Thus , it is suggested , the application of modern technology to housework merely changes the tasks a housewife has to do without significantly reducing her overall workload . |
| 5 | In some areas of the Southern North Sea Basin it is evident that post-inversion subsidence ( essentially Tertiary to Recent ) has been of sufficient magnitude to subject previously matured Carboniferous sediments to the depth/temperature regime to which they were originally exposed . |
| 6 | The routine addition of intravenous heparin to tPA therefore may not be clinically advisable , especially since tPA given with full-dose aspirin alone gives much better patency rates ( 75% ) than tPA with no aspirin ( 43% ) or inadequate aspirin ( 52% ) . |
| 7 | Tuck the neck end over the filling , draw the long sides of the bird over the stuffing and sew up with fine string to encase completely . |
| 8 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 9 | Despite the relatively large amount of specific and varied information given In the article on Ali Tusi , however , it is impossible on present evidence to date precisely his departure for Persia . |