Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as concerns the mental state of the owner ( did he consent ? ) , the Act of 1968 expressly refers to such consent when it is a material factor : see sections 2(1) ( b ) , 11(1) , 12(1) and 13 . |
| 2 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 3 | France oscillated between mid-nineteenth-century free trade and , more lastingly , protectionism : slow to industrialize , France , for most of the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) , was little given to central planning or state interventionism . |
| 4 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 5 | And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys . |
| 6 | The first of these strands , taken up vigorously by many economic commentators in the press and the City , undermined confidence in the ‘ Keynesian ’ approach to demand management and employment policy by suggesting that in the ‘ long run ’ government deficit-financing merely led to higher inflation and was impotent to control employment . |
| 7 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 8 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 9 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 10 | Does not the Secretary of State understand that it is precisely because the TGWU is so committed to effective training and the future expansion of British industry that it is not prepared to give credence to the Government 's sham arrangements ? |
| 11 | Sound-broadcasting is a particular skill , not necessarily related to literary ability though impossible without it . |
| 12 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 13 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 14 | The church is to reflect the mystery of the divine communion : members of the church are to be personally related to each other and , through the Holy Spirit , to Christ the head . |
| 15 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 16 | We have got so used to untold wrath and destruction , but now God again brings water gushing from the rock , and the people are saved . |
| 17 | This is such a diverse field and so open to personal preference that I only intend to say a few words about it . |
| 18 | Firstly , I am naturally drawn to any thing that smacks of illegality , for the simple reason that the vast majority of life 's pleasures , from my point of view , are highly illegal . |
| 19 | Similarly , The Prelude constantly alludes to classical epic and in particular to Paradise Lost , though how conscious an intention of the poet this was is debatable . |
| 20 | So far as the view is intended to be a strictly subjective one , it is capable of being summarised , frivolously but informatively , in a single word — ‘ jaundiced ’ ; but that , perhaps applies to all legislation and not exclusively to modern legislation . |
| 21 | Note that this only applies to ordinary armour and not to magic armour which saves normally . |
| 22 | Of course , this test only applies to non-literal copying and the actual code remains fully protected against direct ( literal ) copying . |
| 23 | Moreover the Housing Act 1988 only applies to residential occupation and has no effect upon lease — licence cases with respect to business or office premises . |
| 24 | Add to this the change in orientation of the legs in many reptiles , which can be used in an efficient running action , unlike the ungainly waddling of the amphibians and it will be apparent why the reptiles were better adapted to terrestrial life than the amphibians , and why they largely displaced them . |
| 25 | The other configurations of front points are generally found on crampons better suited to pure snow and ice routes . |
| 26 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 27 | In the hard sell of this linguistic and cultural economy , claims are made for English , not unlike those formerly made for Latin or for certain styles of French , that it is better suited to particular intellectual and scientific purposes , notably in the current situation , those for which consumers want to buy languages . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 29 | Derrick Greaves thought Minton was very much opposed to flaccid impressionism or complacent anti-modernism , of the Munnings variety , and saw that he wanted his students to examine brutally and fully what kind of vocabulary suited the needs of the day . |
| 30 | Moral education in the Catholic School is intimately connected to Religious Education because fundamental to both is the personal call of Jesus to follow him as Lord and Saviour in the everyday events of life . |