Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Often , the people most committed to the use of charismatic gifts are those most inept in evangelism . |
| 32 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 33 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 34 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 35 | Arguably , Macao would worry less about its future were it not constantly exposed to the nervousness of Hong Kong across the water . |
| 36 | Moreover , Edmund 's association with the Welsh may also cast light on why Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa apparently refers to the battle of Assandun being followed by another at Danaskógar ( skógr = wood , forest ) . |
| 37 | Erm , the agency has considered a paper on this as is referred to in the final paragraph , what it 's basically suggesting to the Department of the Environment and the Home Office is , is that a formula is based upon the supply factors er , such as the , the number of fire stations and standard crew levels etcetera . |
| 38 | Our discourse irreducibly belongs to the system of metaphysical oppositions . |
| 39 | Therefore , since the sellers ' breach had not been serious enough to go to the root of the contract , the buyers were entitled only to damages . |
| 40 | But Henry was hellbent on getting Finch up , hellbent enough to go to the analyst on his behalf . |
| 41 | After giving instructions about his place of burial , he required them to go to his study and take out three great hampers of books and burn them , ‘ Inasmuch as all the comedies , tragedies , pastorals , etc. , heroical poems , love hymns and the like are full of idolatry and especially tend to the overthrow of the Christian religion . ’ |
| 42 | Such laboratories were not meant to be public places , and the requirements of furnaces and sand-baths and enormous wet-batteries all pointed to the basement as the best place , although without good artificial light the hours of usefulness of basement laboratories was limited . |
| 43 | By 1961 the emergence of newly-independent states in Africa and Asia , the development of China as a powerful , independent Communist state and America 's economic decline relative to Western Europe and Japan , all pointed to the emergence of a more sophisticated ‘ multi-polar ’ world . |
| 44 | Farms in DRAs tend to be far less capital intensive than those in the more advantaged areas , and though as a result , are perhaps less exposed to the problem of debt-servicing than wealthier farmers , their incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices . |
| 45 | They are frequently semi-derelict , insanitary and damp and their restoration not only contributes to the renewal of the local housing stock but provides employment for local builders and traders . |
| 46 | But she 'd still let herself be fool enough to cling to the wisp of hope there might be someone of position who saw things different . |
| 47 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 48 | ‘ Stable and fruitful societies have always been elaborately graded ’ , he wrote , and the mistake of apartheid was to make a single decisive distinction on one ground — skin-colour — and then to elevate into a rigid legal system what rightly belongs to a world of personal inclination . |
| 49 | The successes of penicillin and streptomycin naturally led to a search for further antibiotics . |
| 50 | This is a problem that rightfully belongs to the subject of the electrical properties of materials , so I can not say very much about it . |
| 51 | This was perhaps the most directly inflationary aspect of Pitt 's financial management , and the bridging of the gap between income and expenditure was not helped by his stubbornly sticking to the idea of the Sinking Fund . |
| 52 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 53 | ‘ What of myself , maman ? ’ asked the prince , since his mother 's attention had apparently veered to the completion of her move . |
| 54 | The results thus apparently conformed to the pattern of alternation between Awlad Amira and Mannaia , those groups in the vanguard of internecine struggle and ethnic oppression getting disproportionate office . |
| 55 | Although acid precipitation obviously refers to the process of wet deposition of acidic material on the earth 's surface , it also includes the process of dry deposition . |
| 56 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 57 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
| 58 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |
| 59 | They do not even have to be rocks deposited under fresh water conditions , because wood and seeds are perfectly capable of drifting long distances before becoming waterlogged enough to sink to the bottom of the sea . |
| 60 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |