Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likened locally to a stranded whale , and dominates the area . |
| 2 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 3 | The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership , citizenship and general achievement . |
| 4 | Quite clearly , then , if a child is brought up so that it is exposed constantly to a critical parent , she or he may spend much of the time being an adapted child . |
| 5 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 6 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 7 | The mantle currently being sampled at a distal ocean island must have undergone fractionation of U/Pb when it was located close to a cooling ridge ( in the case of Madeira ) or a cooling plume head ( in the case of the Cameroon line ) . |
| 8 | We had come now to a poor area . |
| 9 | The CaCl 2 /DNA mis was added dropwise to an equal volume of 0.2µm-filtered 2 HEPES-buffered saline ( 280mM NaCl , 10mM KCl , 1.5mM Na 2 HPO 4 .2H2O , 12mM dextrose , 50mM HEPES , pH adjusted to 7.05 with 0.5N NaOH ) and left to stand for 20 minutes at RT . |
| 10 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 11 | He had the covered portrait carried upstairs to a small room at the top of the house . |
| 12 | Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly . |
| 13 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 14 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 15 | Unlike most grown-ups , he was usually ready to stop whatever he was doing to sit down and talk , and Oliver , who had looked forward to a good gossip , was both puzzled and disappointed when his friend stood up , spat on his hands and went back to his digging . |
| 16 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 17 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 18 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 19 | However , most businessmen looked forward to a speedy lifting of wartime controls . |
| 20 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 21 | Ideally the Koi should be coaxed , not chased into the net and then transferred gently to a blue plastic bowl or baby bath , never having left the water . |
| 22 | There are some 300 such places in south-west France , the finest of them a little north of here , in Gas cony , and they were built largely to a rectangular pattern of intersecting streets with a sometimes very generous town square in the centre . |
| 23 | Susan Mayor , head of Christie 's Costume and Textiles department commented : ‘ Costume of this date is rare but seventeenth-century royal costume is surprisingly rare , and this piece can be dated exactly to a single day , 21 November 1673 when the history of England hung in balance . |
| 24 | In many areas , the volume of rainwater would often lead to problems as the main sewer could not cope , so here the downpipes are connected to a drainshoe : this is connected directly to a separate drainage system . |
| 25 | The second is where the pipe is fitted to a back inlet gully ; and the third is where the pipe is connected directly to an untrapped bend . |
| 26 | Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are is then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam . |
| 27 | Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam . |
| 28 | He was brought back to Gloucester , and has now been transferred temporarily to a secure unit in Bristol . |
| 29 | As the operator takes readings they are recorded automatically on the attached ‘ datalogger ’ , to be transferred later to a personal computer ( courtesy Cath Price ) . |
| 30 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |