Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wester Ross Wilderness proposal , it appears , only objects to the centredness of certain kinds of humans ( mountain bikers , Monro-baggers , etc ) and it urges the CCS to recognise the crucial role of the local landowners as ‘ good stewards ’ of this region . |
| 2 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 3 | Palmerston , with the longest speech of the debate , started by saying that Members would not be committed by the present vote to any style , as nothing would be decided until next session , and attacked Manners for approving ‘ the erection of so frightful a building ’ , involving expenses and perhaps disappointment to the architect without consulting the House . |
| 4 | In many cases , the traits of resignation and the low inspirations that Lewis describes are merely responses to the situation in which the poor find themselves and will therefore change if the situation changes . |
| 5 | I practically fell through the door to the balcony , shut it after me , turned left , scrambled the twenty or so feet to the door in the south-west corner and plunged through , closing this too . |
| 6 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 7 | But housing experts and governments just have not given enough thought to the type of building materials that developing countries need . |
| 8 | More are likely to be ill informed , to take little interest in politics , and perhaps to give rather less thought to the casting of a vote than to the marking of a pools coupon . |
| 9 | However , even in this case , unless the parties agree otherwise , the buyer must bear the ‘ risk of deterioration necessarily incident to the course of transit , ’ section 33 . |
| 10 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 11 | It was permitted to offer only recommendations to the Committee of Ministers , without bring able to bind the latter in any way : quite often , the Committee simply chose to ignore or reject Assembly recommendations . |
| 12 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 13 | Meanwhile opposition to the treaty in France mounted . |
| 14 | It is largely thanks to the perseverance of a former CO of the RAF Institute of Aviation Pathology , Group Captain Mason ( now Professor of Forensic Pathology at Edinburgh University ) , that there is international recognition of the contribution of the aviation pathologist in aircraft accident investigation by way of a specification recommending their positive involvement in formal investigations written into Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation . |
| 15 | Section 28 has brought further uncertainty to the field of censorship and the law , and as a result further weakens the direction that in censorship librarians should be guided by the law . |
| 16 | By this time Coxe had shifted his interests further south to the province of ‘ Carolana ’ — covering the present North and South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , and Louisiana — which had been granted by Charles I to Sir Robert Heath [ q.v. ] , attorney-general , in 1629 . |
| 17 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 18 | Prior to Haibara 's testimony , Noboru Takeshita had given further evidence to the Diet concerning his role in the affair . |
| 19 | Your Committee have given further consideration to the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Society and now recommend that it be held on 4 May 1990 at 7.30 pm at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 20 | The management executive must give more thought to the development of improved methods of applying Read codes and the budgetary implications of this . |
| 21 | Some argue for much greater administrative decentralization , to remove the ‘ Whitehall bottleneck ’ , and urge that central government gives more thought to the formulation of clearly defined policies so that local authorities can be safely left to get on with the job within a clear policy framework . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been giving a little more thought to the question of our terms of reference . |
| 23 | I 'd also like to thank Colonel , Colonel for coming today from er Mildenhall in Lakenheath and also thanks to the Reverend for being here as well . |
| 24 | The antiseptic , do-gooding pub of the 1930s fell completely out of fashion in the post-war period , partly because of customers ' understandable preference for cosiness , and partly thanks to the campaign in favour of Victorian pub decoration conducted by the Architectural Review from the wartime period onwards , and exemplified in the glorious in-house pub ‘ The Bride of Denmark ’ in the AR 's offices in Queen Anne 's Gate . |
| 25 | Wearing another hat , he is also secretary to the Board of Finance , the most powerful of the five diocesan boards ( the others are responsible for education , the ministry , missionary work at home and abroad , and social responsibility ) . |
| 26 | If the predicate adjunct to the subject is felt to qualify the support of the verb in She was alone , it would seem plausible that in ( 9 ) alone is also incident to the support of the verb ( used here in the infinitival form ) , even though there is no subject pronoun to identify this support 's ordinal rank . |
| 27 | On 27 January 1841 he married in Inverness Christian , daughter of James Dunsmure , formerly secretary to the Board of Fisheries in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established . |
| 29 | In 1957 he met up with some of the world 's leading canoeists who had fled the Hungarian uprising and this fostered an interest and ambition to see Britain rise from the status of also rans to the achieving of Olympic and World Championship medals . |
| 30 | The newspaper reporter fails both sides to the dispute by adopting the rhetoric of only one of them , that of Mr Jones . |