Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think later , be about five o'clock or quarter to five , or something like that depends when it 's on , have to come in early if they want to have it with us . |
| 2 | The formulation of the categories of person who must not be vilified , which is similar to the formulation adopted by the Race Relations Act 1976 , section 3(1) , does not include religious groupings , so that incitement to religious hatred is therefore outside the ambit of the British law ; attacks on Roman Catholicism or Anglicanism are not covered . |
| 3 | Forward-thinking organisations have restructured themselves so that adherence to strict hierarchy and title is less significant . |
| 4 | In recovery the Anonymous Fellowships , based upon the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous , provide successful continuing treatment for the spiritual disease that led to those disorders of mood so that recourse to addictive substances or behaviours becomes unnecessary . |
| 5 | With 20 years experience in the retail business , she has come across all sorts of shoplifters , from down and outs to light-fingered public schoolgirls , and despises them all . |
| 6 | However , official statistics suggest that mobility has not recently been conspicuously higher in Japan than in other industrialized countries , especially since access to good education has too often depended on wealth and background . |
| 7 | So long as recruitment to privileged positions depends upon connections , values and demeanour as well as formal qualifications , then elite education will play a key role . |
| 8 | This phrase , which appears sufficiently comprehensive to apply to any visible image , was not included in the original Public Order Act 1936 , but was introduced only when incitement to racial hatred was first made a criminal offence . |
| 9 | But since the actors concerned are ordinary members of the community , who probably conceive of themselves not only as kinsmen to one another but also as kinsmen of the supernatural beings whose mythology is being enacted , it once again becomes crucial that the investigator should fully understand the nuances of the kinship language in which the multifaceted relationships between the living and the dead are being expressed . |
| 10 | I 'd like to read some discussion on this view rather than allusions to this idyllic England of yore . |
| 11 | For several years a new model for nursing has been researched , written about and tried out which allocates a number of patients rather than tasks to each nurse . |
| 12 | It is difficult to see how it could be otherwise given a political system dominated by appointment prerogatives and Moscow connections , rather than accountability to social forces with a direct stake in policy issues . |
| 13 | Not all geomorphologists were enamoured of the approach and Smalley and Vita-Finzi ( 1969 ) considered that general systems theory was unnecessary in the earth sciences and introduced confusion rather than clarification to empirical investigations . |
| 14 | Second , it would be appropriate for this institution to emphasize economic analysis of market dominance and conduct , rather than conformity to legal definitions of anticompetitive market situations and/or conduct . |
| 15 | He feels that he is trusted , respected as an individual , treated as one and rewarded as one , and that it is his individuality that is needed : his individual contribution , rather than conformity to some sort of ideal ‘ company man ’ . |
| 16 | Shortly after incitement to racial hatred became criminal for the first time in 1965 , for example , some commentators questioned whether Jewish persons were covered by the Act , pointing to the argument that the Jewish community has a religious rather than a racial identity . |
| 17 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 18 | The black woman scoffed confidentially and points to one of the younger women . |
| 19 | ONE of the North-East 's largest training agencies last night refused to disclose details of irregular payments totalling more than £100,000 to local employers . |
| 20 | THE ARCHBISHOP of York said yesterday that opposition to human embryo research was based on biological , theological and philosophical mistakes . |
| 21 | Home and haven to thousands of wildfowl . |
| 22 | Go on that 's it , see that , we 've got an appointment , you know , well I know he 's in , I know he 's in Birmingham at ten , well he 'll make it to Stafford by half past , half past or quarter to eleven , wo n't he , he 'll do that ? |
| 23 | they probably do n't get up until quarter to nine , see they have a struggle really to get there on time |
| 24 | His design solution achieved its ends through its spatial ordering of relationships , and through its emphasis on unimpeded and unrestricted communications , both as aids to good management and as counters to misconduct . |
| 25 | Turn left and head to Rhigian Cottage , then go right on the path through the wooded valley . |
| 26 | Random diversification allows the reduction of non-market risk because the error terms from the market model 's estimation of each security will tend to cancel each other out and sum to zero because they are uncorrelated . |
| 27 | As far as reactions to simple stimuli such as light , gravity , temperature , and humidity arc concerned , the work was largely completed by 1940 . |
| 28 | As far as drawbacks to this approach are concerned , enthusiasm is highly contagious , but people who do n't express it themselves may find it embarrassing . |
| 29 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 30 | Although Wilson 's point is a good one , there is a considerable momentum building up within the digital multimedia industry and even if reluctance to reinvest in new kit slows the pace of change , it is unlikely to deflect the overwhelming trend . |