Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 2 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 3 | The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding . |
| 4 | When you say , " Do you understand me ? " , you are really asking if you have successfully communicated to the other person what you had in mind . |
| 5 | In many cases this has involved rewording of Learning Outcomes but little change to the basic philosophy of the module . |
| 6 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 7 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 8 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 10 | Haemoglobin , a scavenger of NO which is presumably confined to the extracellular space , also blocks the induction of LTP r141–143 , implying that NO ( or another haem-binding molecule , such as CO ) is released into the extracellular compartment . |
| 11 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 12 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 13 | In all metric measures and their direct phi-based equivalents only the 25th , 50th and 75th percentiles are used , so that attention is only given to the central half of the grain population present . |
| 14 | So , so , I believe it 's alright to say well people will migrate in the presence of , it 's rational for a person to migrate in the presence of , of high unemployment if high unemployment only refers to the formal sector , but it 's not rational if it implies that it refers to informal and formal . |
| 15 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 16 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 17 | A further risk is that the smaller Fellowships become so , " special and different " that they may lose the wider identification with all sufferers from addictive disease and they may therefore be less exposed to the common humility that is the essential basis for recovery . |
| 18 | The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ . |
| 19 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 20 | Antiracists have rightly pointed to the limited nature of multiculturalism 's focus on prejudice and attitudes , and its strategy of prejudice reduction by teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ . |
| 21 | The revelations , which are seriously embarrassing Mr Gandhi 's Congress ( I ) Party , were accompanied by documents apparently leaked to the Indian press by Swedish sources . |
| 22 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 23 | This proposes a Scottish parliament with very limited tax-raising powers , which would have responsibility for all matters now administratively devolved to the Scottish Office , and for ‘ industrial development ’ , though nobody knows just what this means . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 26 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 27 | However , ‘ FAST CASH ’ withdrawals and all transactions on machines which are not ABBEYLINK machines can only relate to the Primary Account , and no other account can be selected for these particular transactions . |
| 28 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 29 | It is an act of faith of most brain scientists , including , as must be obvious by now , this one , that an understanding of the brain will lead to an understanding of behaviour and of the processes that control and underpin behaviour , some of which are conscious and some unconscious , but which taken together correspond to the folk-psychological term ‘ mind ’ . |
| 30 | Paratenic hosts such as rodents or birds may ingest the infective eggs , and the L2 travel to their tissues where they remain until eaten by a dog when subsequent development is apparently confined to the gastrointestinal tract . |