Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More positively , they show how attention to detail may bring off results which a simple reorganisation of staff does not . |
| 2 | It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are . |
| 3 | Why change to photocomposition ? |
| 4 | Nuclear industry employees who work in areas where exposure to radiation is possible are given film badges to monitor their exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 5 | However , young children 's ability to develop language is extremely robust , and unless there are additional cognitive or emotional problems , children learn the language of their community even under conditions where exposure to adult input seems to be remarkably impoverished . |
| 6 | The citizens of Amiens , for example , are engaged in a tireless battle to make their city a compulsory stop on the new line , a phenomenon which must be incomprehensible to the inhabitants of Kent and parts of Belgium where opposition to Channel Tunnel rail links is fierce . |
| 7 | The enforcement relationship is accordingly presented as negotiated and symbiotic in character , since social control encounters , ‘ those where reaction to deviance is central , involve degrees of mutual dependency , thus all rule enforcement is a matter of negotiation ’ ( Manning , 1977:247 , italics omitted ) . |
| 8 | This is the culmination of a unique 18 months engineering programme which achieved its objective on 23rd December when Consent to Start-up was obtained from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It is the time when attention to detail must be absolutely remorseless . |
| 10 | He could n't remember a time when going to bed with a woman had n't dulled his interest , acting almost inevitably as a cure for his fascination . |