Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 2 | The main wind-break should protect the side of the garden most exposed to prevailing winds , with individual or grouped shrubs positioned to limit the impact of other seasonal winds and create sheltered corners for delicate plants . |
| 3 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 4 | CID is also being extended to cover those persons forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals . |
| 5 | Jackson 's work is fundamentally committed to formal concerns ; the spatial effects of colour , the purity of form , the dynamics of line ; the paintings appear both as experiments in aesthetics and exercises in logic . |
| 6 | In Drosophila the spatial expression of dpou-19 , ( pdm-2 ) , dpou-28 ( pdm-1 ) , and cfla is predominantly confined to restricted areas at the cellular blastoderm stage and , later in development , to the embryonic nervous system and the hindgut ( 17,18 ) . |
| 7 | The showers , mostly confined to western areas , will be heavy with thunder , and will spread to some other parts later . |
| 8 | Initially , he sounded reasonable enough to appeal to some Unionists , but then he started discussing joint administration as an option . |
| 9 | He 's probably a prosperous American businessman prosperous enough to go to international conventions : try all the American and international reference books in our library then the London Library . |
| 10 | Melanie was furious , and desperate enough to go to any lengths to terminate the pregnancy . |
| 11 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 12 | It is strongly advised that this privilege is only given to responsible users — please contact Sema Software Technology Technical Support Department for further advice . |
| 13 | Standardization only refers to certain aspects of a product 's design — there is still scope for variation . |
| 14 | In other words , when he was talking about psychology , and these are quotes from Darwin 's Expression of the Emotions , Darwin not only refers to acquired characteristics , which he believes in , but he even refers to evolution by will . |
| 15 | It must be realised that the dichotomy : simple/complex only refers to ideal types and not to real societies . |
| 16 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 17 | It is certainly less idealized , and less given to black-and-white distinctions . |
| 18 | If ignored , stress not only contributes to physical disorders such as heart disease , high blood pressure , ulcers and asthma , it can also lead to a variety of mental illnesses of which insomnia , depression and irritability are just early symptoms . |
| 19 | I have worked around the world without so reacting to these factors . |
| 20 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 21 | Organisation development ‘ is a complex educational strategy intended to change the beliefs , attitudes , values and structure of organisations so that they can better adapt to new technologies , markets and challenges and to the dizzying rate of change itself . ’ |
| 22 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 23 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 24 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 25 | A number of papers , all limited to thirty minutes , were then read . |
| 26 | Much given to quarrelsome chases , habitually dives and has pattering take-off . |
| 27 | Of medium height and strong build , Hobhouse ( despite his hay fever ) was much given to outdoor activities , undertaking long expeditions on his bicycle and riding to hounds with a recklessness that sometimes resulted in personal injury . |
| 28 | Gregarious , and easily told from Lapwing ( p. 125 ) in mixed flocks by pointed wings ; much given to aerial manoeuvres . |
| 29 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 30 | This uneasy compromise was not a major difficulty during the first few years as the national economic problems of the early thirties , reductions in public expenditure and depressed employment conditions all led to severe restrictions on the development of adult education . |