Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Teaching by subject led naturally to organization by subjects , and to the almost baronial power of heads of department within the system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This extended period , however , applied only to airforce personnel and equipment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A period of mental relaxation is one of the ingredients of a typical Yoga class , and there are also classes devoted entirely to meditation . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | THE FLORIDA state legislature began a special session yesterday devoted entirely to abortion law . |
| 13 | Cadbury World is a permanent exhibition devoted entirely to Chocolate — where it came from , who first drank the mysterious potion , when it became eating chocolate and the part Cadbury played in this fascinating story . |
| 14 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 15 | Burying his face into the warm living darkness of Wolf 's fur , he tried desperately to wall away the sickening pulse . |
| 16 | The ball cannoned away to safety for Milton . |
| 17 | After leaving school , most of his friends moved away to university . |
| 18 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 19 | As she stood waiting , she felt again that wave of dizziness that bordered close to nausea , and she put a hand against the rough wall of the boat house to steady herself . |
| 20 | Her expression changed gradually to puzzlement . |
| 21 | Culley moved close to Court , who fought the desire to flinch . |
| 22 | Hazel moved close to Fiver and quietly edged him away from the others , feeding as he went . |
| 23 | Apart from the fuel used directly to power farm equipment and to transport food , processed or unprocessed , to the consumer , the fertilizers and pesticides which are an integral part of modern cultivation methods are overwhelmingly derivatives of oil . |
| 24 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 25 | She contributed extensively to garden magazines , including Robinson 's The Garden , and was Country Life 's chief garden adviser . |
| 26 | It was subscriptions from Friends through the Committee for Sufferings which contributed substantially to funding propaganda efforts in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s including the translation of existing materials into various languages and the production of new items for European readers . |
| 27 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 28 | It was Jim Callaghan 's dithering in 1978 and failure to anticipate the horrors and effect of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ that contributed substantially to Labour 's defeat in the General Election the following year . |
| 29 | For some time this provision represented the sole full-time undergraduate degree in the UK devoted uniquely to publishing . |
| 30 | They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions . |