Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 2 | Carol A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 3 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 4 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 5 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 6 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 7 | Gennery says that information on the dangers were ‘ verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 ’ . |
| 8 | This information was verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 , who asked that further studies be done to be available by October 1981 . |
| 9 | The drug problem is mostly limited to substances which produce recognizable behavioural patterns , normally some sort of muddled state or light-headedness . |
| 10 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 11 | For while it is true that ‘ different costs for different purposes ’ is an accepted part of textbooks , it is not clear that the idea has been successfully communicated to non-accountants . |
| 12 | This practical data must be successfully communicated to clients before they are invited to sign a contract , thereby committing them to purchase the new property . |
| 13 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 14 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 15 | Whichever way we look at these figures , whether we believe they represent a real increase in the rate of sexual violence or not , the decreasing conviction rate indicates that the state has not effectively responded to demands that sex crimes be treated more seriously . |
| 16 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 17 | THE COMMON MODERN NOVEL , IN WHICH THERE IS NO IMAGINATION , BUT A MISERABLE STRUGGLE TO EXCITE AND GRATIFY MERE CURIOSITY , OUGHT , IN MY JUDGEMENT , TO BE WHOLLY FORBIDDEN TO CHILDREN . |
| 18 | ‘ These things ought , in my judgement , to be wholly forbidden to children , ’ I said , instead . |
| 19 | ‘ Subject as above , ’ — and subsection ( 1 ) deals with the fact that certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland — ‘ and to any provision expressly relating to companies incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain , nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland or applies to or in relation to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | The word ‘ only ’ is important , for the protection is thereby confined to cases in which the defendant commits no other , incidental tort to procure the breach of contract . |
| 21 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 22 | Tall-herb and fern-rich communities became increasingly rare , presumably confined to areas of locally fertile soils . |
| 23 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 24 | When one takes monkeys evolved for tree-top living and puts them in gravel-floored cages on the ground where they are constantly exposed to faeces , when one mixes three species of macaque in one cage , as was done at the New England centre , the stress factors multiply . |
| 25 | Alternatively , eustatic changes in non-glacial periods can be produced by changes in the cumulative length of active spreading ridges , which will obviously relate to changes in plate patterns ( Hallam , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | This is regarded as a really good job showing that there are no real job opportunities for blacks as jobs are really only given to whites because of the racial prejudice in Maycomb . |
| 27 | There is no natural landing place , the seas are fierce , and permission to land is only given to groups who are have a suitable boat , and who are well provisioned , capable , and with a proven interest in an outdoor topic . |
| 28 | In this environment , the true scientist 's heart naturally turns to thoughts of revenge . |
| 29 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 30 | Less given to aerobatics than Bar-tailed Godwit . |