Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only has other people to her house . |
| 2 | She also pays due attention to the different positioning of black women artists within feminist art practice . |
| 3 | ‘ It rather sounds that way to me . ’ |
| 4 | The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 5 | The process produces no new proteins , it only causes physical changes to existing structures . |
| 6 | This principle does not limit the processing of data , it merely requires such activities to be registered , in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1984 . |
| 7 | Now that 's probably not really true — it just seems that way to him ! |
| 8 | As for the release of information , the stock exchange points out that it already requires price-sensitive information to be published through its regulated news service . |
| 9 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |
| 10 | Flexible though the Formalist/Prague School approach may be in this respect , it still attaches overwhelming importance to the element of innovation in literature , thus reflecting the permanent revolution in poetic language , and in literary forms in general , brought about by the modernist movement from the later nineteenth century onwards . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 12 | The social relations of production under which land is used is a key and pervasive element in the explanation of soil erosion ; it also goes some way to explaining the nature of the state — which intervenes and influences the use of land in all sorts of ways . |
| 13 | It also offers great powers to the electricity , gas and water boards |
| 14 | ‘ It also allows big profits to be made by taking in the dirty washing of other parts of the Community ’ . |
| 15 | It also allows dissimilar things to be added up . |
| 16 | It also has easy access to the Ring Road network , allowing for fast access to the A40/M40 . |
| 17 | It also provides certain exceptions to the general prohibition . |
| 18 | The idea is to make powerful syndicate members compete as never before ; but it also restricts non-syndicate members to selling only to small investors . |
| 19 | It also gives especial aid to poorer areas that lost a lot of income in the changeover . |
| 20 | He also gives some emphasis to channels of communication and their control ; the flow of information that is interpreted by individuals according to their frame of reference . |
| 21 | He also provides administrative support to one of the centre 's BDCs . |
| 22 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 23 | A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’ |
| 24 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 25 | The attraction of technology transfer to SMEs is that it often involves incremental improvements to products and processes which offer a rapid return and reduced risk . |
| 26 | He then attacks certain answers to these questions as ‘ metaphysics ’ . |
| 27 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |
| 28 | He therefore lends some support to that candid Italian scholar of unimpeachable erudition , Aurelio Peretti , who , in the year 1942 , tried to persuade himself ( and if possible his readers ) that no man of Indo-Germanic blood could have protested against Rome : only Jews and other Orientals scribbled Sibylline oracles against the ruling power ( La Sibilla Babilonese , 1943 ) . |
| 29 | He therefore gives extended treatment to the new forms of communications , transport and technology which have enabled ‘ panopticism ’ to be extended throughout nation states . |
| 30 | It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them . |