Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nineteenth century work of Pavlov on the conditioned reflex generated vain hopes that psychology , and in particular learning , might be studied by a rigorous methodology closely allied to physiology . |
| 2 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman then referred to housing , which he regarded as a depressing story . |
| 4 | As we saw , this is the result of the fact that in human beings clearly-focused , specific sexual instincts have undergone a process of diffusion , displacement and generalization and have become associated rather more widely with the body and mind than may be true of other animals in whom these instincts still maintain a narrow and specialized role solely adapted to reproduction . |
| 5 | Practically all the separate functions traditionally attributed to intonation ( attitudinal , accentual and grammatical ) could be seen as different aspects of discourse function . |
| 6 | It makes use of the existence of a synthetic chemical closely related to glucose , 2-deoxyglucose , or 2-DG . |
| 7 | A worthy churchman more addicted to hunting than to academics . |
| 8 | But the case has been greatly overstated in some popular publications , and genuine psychological problems wrongly attributed to food sensitivity , both by patients and fringe practitioners . |
| 9 | Assuming Gorbachev can continue with his reforms the KGB will be in the same position as would MI5 were a Labour anti-nuclear government suddenly returned to power . |
| 10 | I of part of the constant capital normally allocated to Dept . |
| 11 | Its other features are loss of periods , anxious or obsessive behaviour especially related to appearance or food , low self esteem , moodiness and depression . |
| 12 | In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism . |
| 13 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 14 | Recent objectivist approaches in the social sciences and philosophy have attempted to equate all reference to the self with a particular and historical bourgeois self inextricably related to capitalism . |
| 15 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 16 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 17 | Most UV pond systems have been adapted from commercial sterilising units originally designed to product pure drinking water . |
| 18 | Cowering before a stone-faced jury is Andy Spearpoint , lyricist and singer with the New Fast Automatic Daffodils , attempting to explain why his gang of rhythmic misfits really needed to foist their multi-tentacled percussion patchworks onto a world already over-run with pop music in all its myriad hybrid strains . |
| 19 | A further possibly important mechanism in rock breakdown associated with freezing , at least in very fine-grained lithologies , is hydration shattering ( see Section 6.3.1 ) and it is likely that some of the effects of physical weathering previously attributed to frost weathering in fact result from this process . |
| 20 | The use of spears is possible yet arguably a hazardous occupation more suited to hunting as a sport . |
| 21 | This highly flexible system quickly spread to longdistance commuter runs , such as Liverpool Street to Cambridge or Clacton ; and in turn gave fresh impetus to the old dream of establishing corridor trolley services throughout the length of trains . |
| 22 | That year a Labour government uncharacteristically committed to free-market economic policies won office . |
| 23 | I declare the said person duly elected to Parliament . |
| 24 | The only leeway occasionally permitted to Member States is the ability to choose the means and the pace of implementing a policy : a Commission Regulation is applicable in all Member States equally , while a Directive specifies the end , but leaves the Member States free to adopt the method . |
| 25 | In some ways most striking of all , the perception of the Soviet Union as a closed , aggressive society had been largely replaced by one of a changing and liberalising system genuinely committed to peace and headed by a dynamic , Kennedyesque leader and his personable wife . |
| 26 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 27 | Although the Secret Committee formally agreed to publication of Nazimov 's instructions , many contemporaries recorded the attempts of committee members to prevent it . |
| 28 | The big Scot clearly relieved to hole out . |
| 29 | Three microfilming cameras specially adapted to film from bound volumes of newspapers have been purchased , together with other equipment for the processing and production of microfilm . |
| 30 | Worth noting are new microfibre/fleece jackets due out soon from Karrimor and Berghaus , which should be technical garments well suited to climbing and walking . |