Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although graphite and diamond both exist at ordinary temperatures and pressures , diamonds are actually unstable and are continuously reverting to graphite . |
| 2 | They are unpopular since they are regressive and are poorly related to income . |
| 3 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 4 | I could be trapped here at the top of the tower and be either forced to jump or killed like a rat trapped in a barn . |
| 5 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 6 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 7 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 8 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 9 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 10 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 11 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 12 | Infrequently , a refractory pouchitis ( RP ) presents with certain clinical , endoscopic , and pathological features resembling Crohn 's disease and is often ascribed to misdiagnosis of the initial colitis . |
| 13 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 14 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 15 | Today there is much public concern about the amount of incest that occurs and is now coming to light . |
| 16 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 17 | Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos . |
| 18 | He began banging his head against the wall , vomiting up his food , lost a great deal of weight and was eventually taken to hospital . |
| 19 | She had an unhappy childhood in Weston-super-Mare , and was briefly sent to boarding-school in Devizes at the age of eight . |
| 20 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 21 | This same levelling principle had been behind the creation of the Zaragoza Military Academy and was now applied to politics . |
| 22 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 23 | He did his basic training at Warrington and was then posted to officer training school at Grantham . |
| 24 | JUDITH CANNON has recently been promoted to operations director public sector , a new senior position that reflects the continued growth of our public sector division , which caters for schools and hospitals across the UK , Judith joined CCG in 1984 as senior area manager for the Earling schools and social service contract , and was then promoted to business development manager and latterly general manager . |
| 25 | All penguins are flightless but are perfectly adapted to life in water and to withstanding cold . |
| 26 | 88Open test technology verifies that systems and applications conform to source , binary and object standards , but is currently confined to software for Motorola 88000-based systems . |
| 27 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 28 | Charles I 's commission on exacted fees and innovated offices was investigating Mynne and the Hanaper ( in effect the treasury of the Great Seal ) in 1630 ; he got off then but was finally brought to trial for extortion in 1634 . |
| 29 | If a person died of coronary heart disease but was never admitted to hospital we used the date of death as the incidence date . |