Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 2 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 3 | Those speakers whose ties are weakest are those who approximate least closely to vernacular norms , and are most exposed to pressures for change originating from outside the network . |
| 4 | Gennery says that information on the dangers were ‘ verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 ’ . |
| 5 | This information was verbally communicated to officials of the Department of Health in July 1981 , who asked that further studies be done to be available by October 1981 . |
| 6 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 7 | Phonological features were eventually assigned to variants in order to construct these subscales , but the first step was to quantify the data in order to compare the patterns which emerged in different data batches . |
| 8 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 9 | The word ‘ only ’ is important , for the protection is thereby confined to cases in which the defendant commits no other , incidental tort to procure the breach of contract . |
| 10 | Tall-herb and fern-rich communities became increasingly rare , presumably confined to areas of locally fertile soils . |
| 11 | Alternatively , eustatic changes in non-glacial periods can be produced by changes in the cumulative length of active spreading ridges , which will obviously relate to changes in plate patterns ( Hallam , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | In this environment , the true scientist 's heart naturally turns to thoughts of revenge . |
| 13 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 14 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 15 | There the register-keeper was well and truly confused , since he not only referred to children of ‘ Charles William Titford , Linen Draper , Bishopsgate Street ’ — a nomenclature which we are used to by now — but also made an error when it came to wife Anne 's name — she appears as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 16 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 17 | In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) . |
| 18 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 19 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 20 | For this , those feminists , such as Finch and Groves ( 1983 ) , who espoused the cause of their older sisters , can take some credit , particularly in the challenge they threw down to those who assumed without question that such roles would naturally fall to women on their own . |
| 21 | My experience is almost entirely confined to patients of 65 years and under for practical reasons . |
| 22 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 23 | The scales of sexuality tip at the point where a person is more highly attracted to others of his or her own sex than to those of opposite gender . |
| 24 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 25 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 26 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 27 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 28 | Their view on discipline may be highly related to experiences of a strict and authoritarian father . |
| 29 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 30 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |