Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 2 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 4 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 5 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 6 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 7 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 8 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 9 | This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics . |
| 10 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 11 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 12 | They said Nicola had been found brutally stabbed to death in her office although neither newspaper disclosed that the murder weapon was a pair of scissors . |
| 13 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 14 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 15 | Their offer only applies to property in the home counties . |
| 16 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 17 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 18 | Some of these effects were immediate ; others will only come to light in time , if at all . |
| 19 | While philosophy and history may be used as part of a tactic for establishing the disciplinary validity of English against the soft option charge , the essence of English is none the less taken to inhere in its " nobler , more eternal and universal element " , that very artistic quality which is said to transcend both the historical process and all systems of ideas : |
| 20 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 21 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 22 | According to Morolli : ‘ The seed sown by Lorenzo eventually came to fruition in Rome in the time of his son Giovanni , the future Pope Leo X. Seen in this light , Bramante and Raphael are the products of Florentine taste ’ . |
| 23 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 24 | Suppose , now , that the shed was clearly ban of everything and A's suspicions did not relate to theft in the shed . |
| 25 | companies as defined in companies legislation to account for finance costs which do not relate to revenue in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 26 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 27 | ( Debate about Cuba , however , was not permitted to surface in print until very recently . ) |
| 28 | These are normally presented to Parliament in the previous December , along with the winter supplementary estimates for the previous year . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not going to sleep in this house , ’ she insisted in a tearful , hiccupy voice . |
| 30 | Eleven does not begin to rate in the surf numbers game . |