Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 2 | Intramural physician monitors adjusted the cyclosporin doses to maintain cyclosporin trough levels between 80 and 120 ng/ml thus allowing the investigators to remain blinded to the study treatment . |
| 3 | It would remain pegged to the deutschmark at a new rate of DM1.00=13 dinars . |
| 4 | Indeed General de Gaulle , the French leader after 1958 , insisted that the policy must be introduced if France was to remain committed to the Community . |
| 5 | One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig . |
| 6 | But the continuation of the Cold War and Europe 's reluctance to surrender American military protection , meant that substantial amounts of US military aid and large numbers of US troops became committed to the Continent on a permanent basis after the Korean War . |
| 7 | The institutions of higher education became a sounding board for class conflict , and decade by decade a minority became committed to the cause of the masses . |
| 8 | Does it remain committed to the A W B even when it demonstrably fails to deliver the goods ? |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 10 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 11 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 12 | Would he not join me in urging Sinn Fein to reconsider their position on this and would he also agree with me and confirm to this house that this government will never do what Mr Adams requests and that is become a persuader of the people of Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland and will he , will he recognise from me that many on these benches remain committed to the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 13 | Does he not therefore find it extraordinary that the Labour and Liberal parties remain committed to the abolition of grant maintained schools and that in local government they are waging a relentless campaign against G M schools , as typified by the behaviour of Essex County Council . |
| 14 | When investigators questioned the public about privacy on behalf of the Younger Committee , 33 per cent of those asked objected to the publication of names and addresses as happens in the Electoral Roll . |
| 15 | Robins has jumped to the head of Stuttgart 's hit list after helping Norwich top the Premier League following his summer move from Manchester United for £800,000 . |
| 16 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |
| 17 | Among the great moments in the reading programme are those when writing has developed to the point where the learner-reader can read his or her own story to the teacher — a triumphant change of roles — and when children are found in quiet comers reading to each other . |
| 18 | These questions have lost nothing of their force in the decades since 1914 as subsequent conflicts have contributed their own appalling demonstration of man 's capacity for inhumanity , and as a new sensitivity has developed to the dilemmas facing the human race and to the degree of inequality and injustice in human affairs in general . |
| 19 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 20 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 21 | The Committee has commented to the Health and Safety Commission , directly and through CIC , on draft regulations and an approved code of practice intended to implement the EC Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive , stressing the need for clarity in defining the roles of all the parties with a responsibility for site safety . |
| 22 | The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world . |
| 23 | Carol Smith has pointed to the importance of this book for the primitive ritual elements in Eliot 's drama . |
| 24 | Hillman amongst others has pointed to the way in which the impacts of local traffic inside Buchanan 's environmental areas seem to be ignored , as if the only danger comes from through traffic . |
| 25 | Bazaine has pointed to the existence of the red robe in the first known copy of the painting , made in 1607 , nineteen years after Veronese 's death , and the fact that the red was a focal point in the composition . |
| 26 | von Beyme ( 1980 ) has pointed to the potential influence of union size and pluralistic divisions upon the degree of union democracy . |
| 27 | Lecourt has pointed to the absence of ‘ a concept that would enable him to think together several histories with different statuses ; in short , the concept of a differential history ’ . |
| 28 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 29 | Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ . |
| 30 | Hubbard ( 1981 ) has pointed to the inbuilt sexist assumptions of much biology , while Lanser and Torton Beck ( 1979 ) have pointed to the exclusion of female writers and critics from syllabuses of English . |