Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 2 | So far as concerns the mental state of the owner ( did he consent ? ) , the Act of 1968 expressly refers to such consent when it is a material factor : see sections 2(1) ( b ) , 11(1) , 12(1) and 13 . |
| 3 | However , apart from references to this by the local residents , an internal memorandum from the borough engineer dated 26 January 1983 expressly refers to 24-hour operation . |
| 4 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 5 | The restricted B-share has since fallen to 161 , reducing the total market capitalisation to 10.7 billion crowns . |
| 6 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 7 | We can not doubt the intention of such a one to mock our normal human relationships and diminish the value which we properly accord to each other . |
| 8 | This presumably refers to devotional access to the rood-loft ( by newel stair or ladder ) . |
| 9 | In practice , as Rowe describes , it can be used with varying degrees of grammatical marking and would in fact be introduced to mentally-handicapped children in telegraphic form , slowly building to full English linguistic structure : e.g. ( 1 ) HALL , ( 2 ) GO HALL , ( 3 ) GO TO HALL , ( 4 ) GO TO THE HALL . |
| 10 | The way of life in these republics in the 1980s remained demonstrably much more ‘ Western ’ than that in the other Soviet republics , and they were among those most exposed to outside cultural influences ( Estonia , for instance , had ready access to Finnish television and ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Dynasty ’ had a devoted following ) . |
| 11 | The main wind-break should protect the side of the garden most exposed to prevailing winds , with individual or grouped shrubs positioned to limit the impact of other seasonal winds and create sheltered corners for delicate plants . |
| 12 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 13 | France oscillated between mid-nineteenth-century free trade and , more lastingly , protectionism : slow to industrialize , France , for most of the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) , was little given to central planning or state interventionism . |
| 14 | Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression . |
| 15 | The lysates also contained several immunoreactive polypeptides with smaller M r s , which presumably correspond to proteolytic degradation products of the two native PLCs . |
| 16 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 17 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 18 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 19 | Dilatation was resumed after a gap of three to four weeks and the strictures were successfully dilated to 45 FG in all without further complication . |
| 20 | At that time about 90 per cent of households lived in privately-rented accommodation ; the figure has since dropped to 8 per cent . |
| 21 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 22 | I am not myself wholeheartedly committed to any of them but they deserve our attention . |
| 23 | Rainout occurs when material is incorporated into cloud water droplets or ice crystals which eventually grow to sufficient size to overcome gravity and fall to the ground . |
| 24 | CID is also being extended to cover those persons forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals . |
| 25 | 1:1 nitric acid solution ( 10 ml concentrated nitric acid slowly added to 10 ml water in a 50 ml beaker ) . |
| 26 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 27 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 28 | Jackson 's work is fundamentally committed to formal concerns ; the spatial effects of colour , the purity of form , the dynamics of line ; the paintings appear both as experiments in aesthetics and exercises in logic . |
| 29 | Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion . |
| 30 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |