Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 2 | ‘ I had better ring for another cover to be laid . ’ |
| 3 | The reason is that with Van Gogh art and life are not merely conditioned by each other to a greater degree than with any other artist , but actually merge with each other . |
| 4 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 5 | He said that the post would be advertised , which was duly done at some cost to the public purse . |
| 6 | We have already referred in some detail to Digital Video Interactive ( DVI ) above and in the section dealing with video compression ( 3.10 ) . |
| 7 | Well , Little Italy just felt like more Village to me . |
| 8 | Refusal of an assignment does not normally result in any disadvantage to the casual worker , but frequent refusals , even with good reason , are likely to diminish his chances of having offers made since they put his availability into question . |
| 9 | However , the law does not normally allow for any order to be made which will directly affect pension entitlements ( see Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 405–7 ) . |
| 10 | In classical art we see the Greeks finally leaving behind any subservience to earlier traditions , and establishing their own style . |
| 11 | It 's like looking at another planet to a man |
| 12 | It is generally felt that in the past local authorities have dragged their feet in taking on their responsibilities to care for mentally disordered people , and the Minister of Health , Roger Freeman , outlined further plans for this group to Parliament the day after Secretary of State Kenneth Clarke 's speech on community care ; these were , clearly , some last-minute additions to the government 's package of proposals . |
| 13 | This is instructed as the project proceeds and a fee paid , usually related in some way to his costs . |
| 14 | The cost basis of the company will have to be genuinely reduced for any bonus to be paid . |
| 15 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 16 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
| 17 | Also references in this book to the extent of soil erosion are drawn from a wide variety of sources and go some way to corroborate the view that , whether it is important or not , environmental degradation is certainly happening . |
| 18 | On the other hand , psychotropic drugs such as minor tranquillizers and antidepressants are now being prescribed on a large scale by general practitioners ( Skegg et al. 1977 ) , and this probably contributed to some extent to the increase in overdoses of these substances . |
| 19 | From Linthal train services are available down the valley via Glarus , cantonal capital , to Ziegelbrucke ( junction with the Chur-Zurich main line ) ; most trains also continue beyond that junction to Rapperswil at the east end of Lake Zurich , from where in turn a train may be taken ( via Pfaffikon on the south-east corner of Lake Zurich ) to Arth-Goldau ( for Schwyz , Brunnen , Luzern ) . |
| 20 | Within Western societies what are the most likely responsive sectors ( these may also apply in some measure to North America and Australasia ) ? |
| 21 | This , then , is life : innately complex organisms , cocooned upon a much-favoured planet , competing with each other for survival , but also co-operating with each other to their mutual benefit . |
| 22 | If the person taking the blood sample is asked for what purpose it is being taken and replies that it is for an HIV antibody test , a person who does not wish an HIV antibody test to be done should expressly say so , and should also ask for this refusal to be entered in their medical records . |
| 23 | Now to extrapolate from this example to a general argument that familiarity of a subject is a disadvantage would clearly be absurd . |
| 24 | Differentiated labour meant that people now differed from each other to a much greater extent , including in their consciences . |
| 25 | The chunks of marc are often transferred at this stage to a séchoir- a smaller , deeper , vertical press — or to a horizontal press to be squeezed out . |
| 26 | Albanian men are imprisoned , tortured and often shot without any recourse to justice . |
| 27 | We come now to vote on this addendum to deliverance n number four and , since it is in print , we do n't need to ask the clerk to read it out for us , so therefore as , ask those who wish to vote for this addendum would you please stand . |
| 28 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 29 | And so his words , ‘ Bless those who persecute you ; bless and do not curse ’ sound like a counsel of perfection only if we fail to realise the process of transformation which is needed to enable us realistically to respond in this way to aggression from others . |
| 30 | An extreme example of parental involvement in children 's sports is the phenomenon which Dorcas Susan Butt calls the ‘ sports parent ’ , the parent ‘ who pushes the child onward in the sport … sometimes encourages the youngster and sometimes criticizes , and will often go to any degree to further the child 's interests … the parent 's main interest is to maximize the performance and benefits of his or her own child ’ ( 1976 , p. 120 ) . |