Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Natural History , ’ a straightforward ‘ Best Of ’ brought out by EMI last year , was hard enough for Mark to stomach , but when the label this year released ‘ History Revisited ’ , a remixed ‘ Best Of ’ , well … |
| 2 | Between them , though , these hoofed herbivores ( ungulates ) demonstrate how efficiently vegetation can be divided up and utilized , if nature is given time enough for evolution to work , and a good variety of genes to work upon . |
| 3 | Let's not worry too much about claims to exclusivity where truth is concerned — perhaps these are best left until the next world ! |
| 4 | Language has the ability to stimulate and motivate , not only through appeals to logic but also through appeals to emotion ( Burke , 1950 ; Pfeffer , 1981 ; Edelman , 1964 ) . |
| 5 | Oddly , perhaps ominously , the war has in many respects gone better for Israel to date than for any other single party ( with the possible exception of CNN ) . ’ |
| 6 | Since the GCBS waybill lacks the spaces for the data that usually accompanies combined or multi-modal transport , it is suitable only for port to port and through transport . |
| 7 | Prudhoe dashed along the goal line to the corner of his box to keep a misdirected Smith backpass in play , but all the keeper could do was palm the ball to the feet of Loram , who simply squared the ball inside for Fashanu to sidefoot a second . |
| 8 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 9 | Well I 'm vo involved in Crossline which is a a Christian run telephone helpline , erm , we off , also offer free counselling and they find that er , there 's more men will actually pick up the telephone , cos they 're not seen erm , whereas more women will actually come in for face to face counselling . |
| 10 | The Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Infarcto Miocardico ( GISSI-2 ) , its international extension , and the Third International Study of Infarct Survival ( ISIS-3 ) are large mortality trials that have provided reliable and consistent information on the risks and benefits of combined aspirin and subcutaneous heparin or aspirin alone as adjuncts to thrombolysis ( table I ) . |
| 11 | Again the family member will argue that this is perfectly reasonable behaviour for any family : total commitment regardless of cost to self might be considered to be the moral basis of family life . |
| 12 | That might be so in the case of other illness or disaster but in addictive disease total commitment regardless of cost to self actually works against recovery . |
| 13 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |
| 14 | In the service sector the predicted relationship appeared to obtain , but again only with respect to agency workers ( Table 3.10 ) . |
| 15 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 16 | Other writers have concluded differently , especially with reference to engineering , building , shipbuilding , and printing . |
| 17 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent will now be explained with reference to computer technology , followed by a consideration of the exclusions and their impact , especially with respect to computer software . |
| 18 | In Lotus Development Corp. v Paperback Software International ( 1990 ) , the defendant claimed that he had not copied the Lotus program code but had used a similar menu system to achieve compatibility ( especially with respect to spreadsheet files and macros ) and to enable people to change to VP-Planner from Lotus 1-2-3 without requiring re-training . |
| 19 | Alternative cladograms based on various analyses of ribosomal RNA are available and while sharing features in common , differ in other respects , especially with respect to protostome relationships . |
| 20 | All parties agreed to co-operate in protecting the environment of the eastern Baltic Sea , especially with respect to rubbish disposal and nuclear waste storage . |
| 21 | The two ears may not react identically with respect to insertion and reinsertion of tubes . |
| 22 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 23 | Many such contracts are not sale contracts as such but are licence agreements ; this is particularly so with respect to computer software where the owner of the rights subsisting in the software grants licences to customers , giving them permission to use the software in return for a licence fee . |
| 24 | Promoters are hoping the park will become the European centre for software development in multimedia , networking , graphics and simulation technology and will be offering low rents to start-ups along with access to computer platforms , databases and libraries . |
| 25 | These contributions will enable us to subsidise our Annual Outing which members look forward to eagerly from year to year . |
| 26 | The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point . |
| 27 | The current ( 1980s ) rankings of the major brewers vary somewhat from product to product : |
| 28 | Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time . |
| 29 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 30 | Theoretically at least , if tourism was to increase by £20,000 million , ( four-fold ) , and if holidays previously taken abroad were taken at home , the calculations justify the transfer of tax burden entirely from earnings to spending . |