Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling of staff over this issue had been communicated effectively to management . |
| 2 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
| 3 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 4 | Professor Cuttino has concluded that the peace of paris ‘ which re-created the feudal relationship which led eventually to war , was the result of English commitments towards Sicily and the desire to secure wealthy territory ’ . |
| 5 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 6 | Both , to begin , were hostile to the growing prospect of a corporate state where power belongs less to parliament or cabinet than to organised interests such as unions , multinationals , federations of employers , state monopolies and established institutions like professional bodies . |
| 7 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 8 | Teaching by subject led naturally to organization by subjects , and to the almost baronial power of heads of department within the system . |
| 9 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |
| 10 | For Ohmann , style belongs only to level ( B ) , whereas for Halliday style can be located in ( A ) , ( B ) , and ( C ) . |
| 11 | Attempts to protect the American economy by raising tariff rates , as in the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 , led only to retaliation by other countries against American goods . |
| 12 | But he was able to anticipate that objection by suggesting that the prohibition applied only to knowledge sought in self-aggrandizement , not to that which was of service to humanity . |
| 13 | US State Department officials quoted in the Washington Post of March 7 , however , defended the administration 's decision , claiming that the Pressler Amendment applied only to government aid . |
| 14 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 15 | This extended period , however , applied only to airforce personnel and equipment . |
| 16 | The disability discrimination provisions of the federal Rehabilitation Act 1973 were modelled upon the sex and race discrimination measures of Title VII in the Civil Rights Act 1964 , but applied only to employment by the federal government , by federal contractors and by employers in federally-financed programmes and activities . |
| 17 | The SPF system refers only to protection from UVB rays , but this year a star rating system has been introduced which also categorizes sun products according to their UVA protection . |
| 18 | ( The phrase ‘ suitable applicants ’ refers only to ability and motivation . ) |
| 19 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 20 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 22 | It was therefore something of a surprise last Wednesday to amble into Darlington 's new Thai restaurant and find four-fifths of the D&S editorial staff seated serendipitously to lunch . |
| 23 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 24 | As well as a sound background in Economics and Statistics , the candidate must demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively to potential and existing clients . |
| 25 | As the Congressional Quarterly commented in 1980 , ‘ on the economic front the administration has little to crow about . |
| 26 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 27 | Unimpressed , I went down to the edge of the fjord to find somewhere to camp . |
| 28 | A period of mental relaxation is one of the ingredients of a typical Yoga class , and there are also classes devoted entirely to meditation . |
| 29 | Astronomers in the UK have recently proposed a ‘ British-led ’ satellite , the first X-ray mission devoted entirely to spectroscopy ( New Scientist , vol 97 , p 72 ) . |
| 30 | THE FLORIDA state legislature began a special session yesterday devoted entirely to abortion law . |