Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
| 2 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 3 | Both , to begin , were hostile to the growing prospect of a corporate state where power belongs less to parliament or cabinet than to organised interests such as unions , multinationals , federations of employers , state monopolies and established institutions like professional bodies . |
| 4 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 5 | For Ohmann , style belongs only to level ( B ) , whereas for Halliday style can be located in ( A ) , ( B ) , and ( C ) . |
| 6 | The SPF system refers only to protection from UVB rays , but this year a star rating system has been introduced which also categorizes sun products according to their UVA protection . |
| 7 | ( The phrase ‘ suitable applicants ’ refers only to ability and motivation . ) |
| 8 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 9 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 10 | As the Congressional Quarterly commented in 1980 , ‘ on the economic front the administration has little to crow about . |
| 11 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the pattern of Japan 's postwar history owes much to Occupation policy . |
| 13 | The headhunting business as a whole , although it promotes the idea of systematising personal networks , still owes much to chance , coincidence and Lady Luck . |
| 14 | If any question arises as to this , the defence is entitled , and is under a duty , to invite the trial judge to exercise the discretionary power given to him by section 17 of the Evidence Act , which corresponds exactly to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ( 28 & 29 Vict. c. 18 ) and provides : |
| 15 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 16 | This wealth is independent of production relations and owes more to household structure and position in the life-cycle . |
| 17 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 18 | To talk of policy in matters of care except in the context of available resources and timescales for action owes more to theology than to the purposeful delivery of a caring service . |
| 19 | NO BRITISH sport owes more to television than athletics . |
| 20 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 21 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 22 | And yet his view of ‘ Pericles ’ rings close to truth . |
| 23 | But the approach used has considerable advantage in principle over the cruder system used for educational deprivation , since there is an attempt to relate expenditure needs directly to deprivation indicators , rather than adoption of an ad hoc procedure with little justification other than expediency . |
| 24 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's not the kind of humour that transfers well to paper — try explaining Reeves 's hero , Tommy Cooper , in print . |
| 26 | The brightest stars are Alpha ( 4.4 ) and the orange Gamma ( 4.5 ) , which lies closest to Epsilon Columbæ . |
| 27 | ( The reason for this is that IF/ALT and normal form share the property that syntactic structure corresponds closely to execution order : things at high syntactic levels are excluded first . ) |
| 28 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 29 | LEFT : Cute kid John Kocinski looks forward to lunch |
| 30 | It may appear curiously anachronistic to include a chapter on " hearing children read " in a book which looks forward to language and learning in an age of computers and mechanisation . |