Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 2 | ‘ It is four years since my last midfield appearance because Colin Harvey moved be back to right back and then the injuries began . |
| 3 | The fleshly temptations of porn pose a threat to public morality and so the law steps in . |
| 4 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 5 | The description of the Count as Alfonso 's " friend " suggests that there was more to this incident than simply the curbing of an unruly vassal . |
| 6 | No further items were traced referring to this case and so the confusion was allowed to remain . |
| 7 | The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession . |
| 8 | One of the most striking findings to an ear , nose , and throat surgeon is the apparent focus on hearing loss to the exclusion of all other symptoms related to this condition and therefore the ignoring of the overall picture of morbidity associated with the condition of glue ear . |
| 9 | There was more to this canal than just a final obstacle , however . |
| 10 | Increased trade with third countries due to this effect and also the induced trade following from the increase in growth stimulated by the creating of the CU have been called external trade creation . |
| 11 | Lithosphere which is thin and slow moving is predicted to be the most vulnerable to penetrative magmatism and therefore the most likely to experience hot-spot volcanism and associated uplift . |
| 12 | Unlike the laws of menstruation and childbirth , it had never been as intimately linked to cultic activity/purity and so no recasting was required following the events of 70 AD . |
| 13 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 14 | Legal opinion was opposed to exclusive concentration upon criminal work on the grounds that the monotony tended to cause staleness , in judges and in counsel , leading to decreased competence and possibly a tendency on the part of judges to become ‘ prosecution-minded ’ . |
| 15 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 16 | As in so many computer applications , particularly in the personnel field , it is necessary to make it clear that the technology is an aid to managerial judgement and not a replacement for it . |
| 17 | One of the features of , of the media which I think I mentioned earlier , certainly to one group if not the whole lot , is that people in the media cut things to the last moment , and the final second , it 's part of the adrenaline , we 've a chance to , make people move in . |
| 18 | There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other . |
| 19 | The DIFFERENCE of two relations is the set of all tuples belonging to one relation but not the other . |
| 20 | And when he bent his head , first to one breast and then the other , his lips closing over her swollen nipples , she felt as though she was almost going to die of excitement . |
| 21 | Then place your hands on your hips and stretch over to one side and then the other . |
| 22 | With difficulty she rolled his dead weight first to one side and then the other to search his pockets . |
| 23 | It is , however , a mistake to pigeon-hole Corinth as just a city of traders , craftsmen and luxury . |
| 24 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |