Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 2 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 3 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 4 | The tribunal was told that Mr Nicholson had shown a vibrator to a class of teenage boys , and also invited pupils to chalk four-letter words on the blackboard and to shout-out ‘ the F-word ’ and other swear words . |
| 5 | His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism . |
| 6 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |