Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity . |
| 2 | It is likened locally to a stranded whale , and dominates the area . |
| 3 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 4 | The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership , citizenship and general achievement . |
| 5 | Quite clearly , then , if a child is brought up so that it is exposed constantly to a critical parent , she or he may spend much of the time being an adapted child . |
| 6 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 7 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 8 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 9 | I was hustled away to a cold , stone-flagged cell beneath the Guildhall which I shared with two of the biggest rats I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 10 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 11 | The mantle currently being sampled at a distal ocean island must have undergone fractionation of U/Pb when it was located close to a cooling ridge ( in the case of Madeira ) or a cooling plume head ( in the case of the Cameroon line ) . |
| 12 | An in vivo assay showed that the N-terminal sequence containing residues of 1–110 of RAP30 that is located close to a σ homology region interacts with a minimum sequence of residues 62–171 of RAP74 to form a heteromeric interaction . |
| 13 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 14 | Filters were added directly to a PCR reaction and amplification was with the M13 primers ( forward and reverse ) , and then with the nested set of primers T3 ( 5'-ATTAACCCTCACTAAAG-3 ’ ) and T7 ( 5'-AATACGACTCACTATAG-3' ) . |
| 15 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 16 | Borja had earlier responded positively to a letter of Nov. 24 from Fujimori proposing a " friendship , co-operation and integration " pact under the 1942 Rio de Janeiro protocol whose validity Ecuador refused to acknowledge . |
| 17 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 18 | We had come now to a poor area . |
| 19 | All damage to school property must be reported immediately to a teacher or to the Deputy Headmaster . |
| 20 | Tork , Station Officer for Tel Aviv , always responded immediately to a summons from that office , cancelled whatever appointments he had . |
| 21 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 22 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 23 | He had the covered portrait carried upstairs to a small room at the top of the house . |
| 24 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 25 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 26 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 27 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 28 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 29 | Unlike most grown-ups , he was usually ready to stop whatever he was doing to sit down and talk , and Oliver , who had looked forward to a good gossip , was both puzzled and disappointed when his friend stood up , spat on his hands and went back to his digging . |
| 30 | However , most businessmen looked forward to a speedy lifting of wartime controls . |