Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 2 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 3 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 4 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 5 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , she still owes much to a male mentor who , in a previous job , told her : ‘ You can do it . |
| 7 | The development of fully-fledged headhunting firms owes much to a growing conflict of interest between different sectors of their business experienced by the management consultants and accountants who operated headhunting departments . |
| 8 | In the short term , the development of the British executive search industry owes much to a mixture of both demand and supply factors . |
| 9 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 10 | One suspects its high rating owes less to a fondness for social-democratic parties with close trade-union links than to a loose wish for economic efficiency plus social justice . |
| 11 | The modern stockman thus approximates more to a ‘ farm technician ’ than the old image of the ‘ farm labourer ’ . |
| 12 | A wide knowledge of printing and typography is needed , since good typography adds immeasurably to an advertisement 's impact , readability and style , and it is the art director who will choose the type face . |
| 13 | Of course , no creative scientist holds rigidly to a fixed position in the light of new evidence , and only Kandel himself can say how far he has now moved beyond such earlier , campaigning reductionism . |
| 14 | ‘ Were you hoping to find that I am one of those fools who holds tightly to a title with no meaning ? |
| 15 | Between December and April , the temperature averages between 15°C and 21°C ( 59°F to 70°F ) ; it then gradually increases to around 21°C to 24°C ( 70°F to 75°F ) between July and September , and drops again to an average between October and December of 18°C to 21°C ( 64°F to 70°F ) . |
| 16 | Their business , a factory making patio doors for the trade , was initially based in Newton Abbot because of economical site and labour costs ; now Peter Aldam looks forward to a mere 30-minute commute there along the soon-to-be finished A30 extension . |
| 17 | He concludes that the event demonstrates only the ‘ growing pains of a young republic ’ which ‘ after 5000 years of conquerors … looks forward to a prosperous and peaceful future . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 19 | This looks forward to a future phase of professionalism . |
| 20 | British qualifications in public health medicine fully meet the requirements of the directives and the faculty looks forward to a time when the specialty will be formally recognised in all member states and not only in Britain , France , and Ireland . |
| 21 | It looks forward to a greater gift in the future while stressing a real gift in the present . |
| 22 | Doherty now looks forward to a quarter-final clash with Steve Davis . |
| 23 | Brian looks forward to a fresh challenge |
| 24 | Now with 10 years in top flight football behind him , he looks forward to a 32nd birthday in November as Northern Ireland wind up their World Cup campaign . |
| 25 | Writing of many types may assist a reader who looks forward to an encounter with a work of art . |
| 26 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 27 | THE hard luck story to emerge from this year 's Martell Grand National surely can not come from David Stoddart , the man who sold Party Politics 48 hours before the big race and now looks forward to an agreed bonus of £15,000 on top of the original £80,000 price tag . |
| 28 | John Ley looks forward to an international showpiece in which opening and closing ceremonies could rival the main event |
| 29 | Wordsworth looks forward to an ideal Welfare State where all are entitled to ‘ maintenance by law ’ feeling of degradation . |
| 30 | There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS . |