Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is felt that the conventional conveyancing procedure should be adhered to for the reasons stated in Chapter 3 . |
| 2 | It is perhaps interesting to note that , despite the urgency of the situation , the convention that the accident investigation authority of one State communicates with the accident investigation authority of another State and the airworthiness authority of one State communicates with the airworthiness authority of another State was adhered to in the alerting procedure . |
| 3 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 4 | Note that the actual spacing of the piano chords is not adhered to in the arrangement . |
| 5 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 6 | At the slightest sign of originality in approach or technique a director might well be regarded as a menace and any departure from the hoary formula adhered to by the executives could be considered highly presumptuous . |
| 7 | The closing dates were strictly adhered to by the Office of Works . |
| 8 | And with the mind , even of humans , behaving in a habituated , instinctive fashion , many an insightful perception or suggestion is rejected out of hand by the deeply engrained , yet erroneous , patterns adhered to by the majority . |
| 9 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 10 | However , influenced by the fact that the deterrence policy is firmly adhered to by the governments of the superpowers and has some political acceptability , and that the traditional doctrine of the laws of war did not apply to preparation for war , his eventual conclusion is that it would be difficult to state that any measures short of use are illegal . |
| 11 | Notations are made on the card as to the reasons for blacklisting , and any instructions such as ‘ refer to manager ’ , ‘ do not accept ’ or ‘ undesirable ’ should be carefully adhered to by the staff . |
| 12 | In response to this threat , Irokawa argues , the ruling classes moved rapidly to reinforce the conventional norms still adhered to by the vast majority of the people , but in a way which removed any spontaneous content and value . |
| 13 | This may be dealt with in some way in the contract in that a certain notice period may have been specified and this may have been adhered to by the parties . |
| 14 | Exactly this point was made by the Cabinet Committee of the Leeds Liberal Federation in 1921 , and adhered to throughout the 1920s . |
| 15 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The school librarian or teacher is not therefore dealing with a traditional cataloguing and indexing task whereby one system is adhered to within the information retrieval system , as in a card catalogue . |
| 17 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 18 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 19 | This page enables you to indicate which versions of which modules are likely to be involved in the problem or suggestion responded to by the SSR . |
| 20 | Other such clues may have gone unnoticed by the researcher , though responded to by the subjects . |
| 21 | Is a human being and his idea-thinking process like a healthy tree in that there is the stable main trunk with subsidiary branches that grow slowly and are added to through the years ? |
| 22 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 23 | In this approach , each participant in a discourse has a presupposition pool and his pool is added to as the discourse proceeds . |
| 24 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 25 | Ramsay found the Regent Douglas installed in Edinburgh Castle , with a host of lords and chiefs , including no fewer than six earls , a most illustrious company , waiting there while their forces massed and were added to on the adjacent Burgh Muir . |
| 26 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 27 | This legacy has been added to down the years , and continues to develop . |
| 28 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 29 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 30 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |