Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 2 | With the exception of a few journalists perhaps over-committed to the official Anglo-American view after following it so assiduously for three years , the press , too , was mostly unenthusiastic . |
| 3 | His head jerked round and he was just in time to see the pack stream out from the bushes only thirty yards away , noses still glued to the invisible trail they were following , and lope swiftly towards the house . |
| 4 | This tendency is itself in need of sociological analysis , since it is in some respects clearly related to the social character of certain modem institutions , most obviously in advertising and market research but also in audience research and in political opinion polling . |
| 5 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 6 | Worries now shifted to the higher prices and to what became known as the ‘ recycling problem ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We are , ’ he said , ‘ about to introduce a scheme to replace the much discredited ‘ trikes ’ , ’ by which he meant the three-wheeled conveyances then issued to the disabled . |
| 8 | Apart from the domestic consequences , the Bundesbank is of course also fully aware of the pressure from its European partners to reduce its interest rates and allow currencies closely linked to the German mark to relax monetary policy and stimulate growth . |
| 9 | The brothers dutifully responded to the May-Day request and immediately set out in their 36 foot launch to search for the bevvied buccaneer . |
| 10 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |
| 11 | The dispersal of people to increasingly distant suburbs and the growing concentrations of service industries in city centres were bound to lead to a re-invasion by young professionals and executives of inner areas long abandoned to the working class … |
| 12 | For the sake of standardization the London Companies always worked to the lowest common denominator ! ) |
| 13 | On the left is a mole carcase turned inside out with many of the bones still attached to the inverted skin ; in the middle , partial remains of mole ( top left ) and vole ( bottom left ) treated in the same way , and bird remains to the right ; and on the right two kestrel pellets . |
| 14 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 15 | The towering figure of Melchizedek , the priest and the king , and therefore the embodiment of power , was much loved by Innocent , who in his writings constantly returned to the dual aspect of Melchizedek 's powers , which were combined , he argued , in the person of the pope . |
| 16 | And such explanations only contributed to the existing capitalist social order . |
| 17 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 18 | It is then easier to select the individuals best suited to the proposed task . |
| 19 | It did not , however , mean the end of local troubles directly related to the wider conflict . |
| 20 | At a meeting of the Society in January 1866 he read a paper on the formation of the Theognidea , a collection of poems traditionally ascribed to the sixth-century Greek poet Theognis . |
| 21 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ We wanted to have characteristic examples of applications well adapted to the French consumer , which could be sold by Lotus , ’ Damlamian said . |
| 23 | They comprise pledges on national standards and a new set of promises specifically geared to the local area . |
| 24 | They comprise pledges on national standards and a new set of promises specifically geared to the local area . |
| 25 | Training which is job related must be provided in West Belfast in skills traditionally denied to the Catholic population . |
| 26 | Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza officially confirmed on 12 February that within one or two months he will agree to the permanent disposition of his 800 paintings now leased to the Spanish government and housed in the Palace of Villahermosa , Madrid ( just across the road from the Prado ) and at the Monastery of Pedralbes , Barcelona . |
| 27 | The original windows of the ‘ east ’ gable and the side walls having become low-level lights closely related to the new upper floor , the fine stained glass they contain can now also be admired at close range . |
| 28 | What took place was a widening and deepening of consumption so that goods previously confined to the wealthier classes came to be purchased next by the middle-income ranks and then , to some degree , by the lower . |
| 29 | Before the Army became involved , media accounts often referred to the political background to the conflict and were sympathetic towards the Civil Rights movement ( Hillyard , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Until the early 1960s the effects of rural depopulation , the dilapidation of much rural property and the cost of travel to urban centres all contributed to the lower price of rural housing compared with urban areas . |