Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 7 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 8 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 11 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Weeping became a self-humiliation , an acknowledgement of one 's unworthiness before the god , used only to appeal to Yahweh in the hope of influencing His decisions . |
| 14 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics . |
| 19 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
| 20 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such plants can be grown , harvested , and then disposed of ( perhaps fed to cattle in some distant place ) ; thus steadily reducing the salt load . |
| 23 | My diagnosis of the increased gap between the participants implied by the Sidneian constellation is strengthened by Lyons 's argument that ‘ whereas first and second person are the positive members of the category of person , third person is essentially a negative notion ’ , because ‘ it does not necessarily refer to participants in the situation of utterance ’ . |
| 24 | If he is wise , he need not deal with the latter in his guiding lectures , but will merely refer to books in which these simpler topics are well set out . |
| 25 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 26 | Wilkinson illustrates his conclusion by suggesting that a comparison of the optical company and the plating company displays the folly of the notion that de-skilling and increased management control over production processes necessarily leads to increases in efficiency . |
| 27 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 28 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 29 | The requirement of standing only applies to actions in respect of public law wrongs . |
| 30 | Their offer only applies to property in the home counties . |