Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expectation at an early age that career aspirations can not be met locally contributes to a lack of commitment to the home area and to the acceptance of out-migration as the inevitable solution . |
| 2 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 3 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 4 | He very rarely goes to the Rosemount wing . ’ |
| 5 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 6 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 7 | In contrast , the utility-based argument associated with Buchanan ( 1958 ) does not quarrel with when the resources are used but rather points to the fact that debt-holders have voluntarily taken up the debt and are being compensated for decreased present consumption by the enhanced future consumption that interest and repayment will allow , and hence are not made worse off . |
| 8 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 9 | The faster moving of the two bands presumably corresponds to a proteolysis product of Dcm ; in later experiments with a fresh batch of enzyme it was no longer observed ( compare Figure 8 ) . |
| 10 | A bilateral treaty ( or one with a limited number of parties ) creating mutual rights and duties in personam most approximates to a contract ; it is here that the identity of treaty partners is most significant . |
| 11 | Moreover , Edmund 's association with the Welsh may also cast light on why Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa apparently refers to the battle of Assandun being followed by another at Danaskógar ( skógr = wood , forest ) . |
| 12 | Our discourse irreducibly belongs to the system of metaphysical oppositions . |
| 13 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 14 | They are frequently semi-derelict , insanitary and damp and their restoration not only contributes to the renewal of the local housing stock but provides employment for local builders and traders . |
| 15 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 16 | ‘ Stable and fruitful societies have always been elaborately graded ’ , he wrote , and the mistake of apartheid was to make a single decisive distinction on one ground — skin-colour — and then to elevate into a rigid legal system what rightly belongs to a world of personal inclination . |
| 17 | This is a problem that rightfully belongs to the subject of the electrical properties of materials , so I can not say very much about it . |
| 18 | For years company pension schemes have argued that a pension fund surplus rightfully belongs to the employer — hence the proliferation of contribution holidays . |
| 19 | Although acid precipitation obviously refers to the process of wet deposition of acidic material on the earth 's surface , it also includes the process of dry deposition . |
| 20 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 21 | Minute one six O r below refers to the suggestion that some or all of the uncommitted savings might be used to finance the purchase of equipment to facilitate the early introduction of a speed enforcement camera trial site . |
| 22 | Any study of Abwehr intelligence affairs during the Second World War constantly refers to the work of SOE , the Special Operations Executive set up by British Intelligence in 1940 on Churchill 's instructions to coordinate resistance and the underground movement in Europe . ’ |
| 23 | The implications of ‘ story ’ have hardened to the extent that Federman constantly refers to the narrative as a ‘ recitation ’ , as if he were writing over earlier texts such as Beat novels . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , fifty 's gone already in backhanders to a couple of the girls at Central Records . |
| 25 | ‘ This lift only goes to the penthouse , ’ he mocked as they came to a smooth halt . |
| 26 | Its practical bearing follows from these aims ; for by constructing concepts , forms of argument and criteria of evidence which attain some degree of objectivity and universality , political sociology , to the extent that it is diffused through society , has an effect on ideologies and on political consciousness generally , and so contributes to the shaping of political action . |
| 27 | He then suddenly drops to the ground on the left knee , placing the left hand on the floor in front of him . |
| 28 | Regardless of whether the minor or anyone else with authority to do so consents to the treatment , that practitioner will be liable to the minor in negligence if he fails to advise with reasonable skill and care and to have due regard to the best interests of his patient . |
| 29 | The power of the bureaucracy merely corresponds to the power of the state as a whole and so may be quite compatible with the power ( or lack of it ) exercised elsewhere in the state apparatus . |
| 30 | But the greater birthweight variability within monozygous twins merely adds to the difficulty of distinguishing between the effects of genes and early environment , and is a further reason for distrusting estimates of heritability derived from twin studies . |