Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lawful act which is performed carelessly does not automatically become an unlawful act for this purpose , even if a lawful act done carelessly amounts to an offence ( e.g. careless driving ) : Andrews v DPP , above . |
| 2 | These concepts require self-reflection for their meaning to be grasped , which necessarily leads to an ontology privileging the individual as a knowing subject . |
| 3 | The simplest form of cost system merely amounts to an analysis or separate cost record for each individual contract or development project . |
| 4 | Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale . |
| 5 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |
| 6 | This is rather unstable , and it usually comes to an end in a funeral . |
| 7 | The principle of orality clearly belongs to an age in which the speedy production of multiple copies of documents was a slow labour-intensive exercise . |
| 8 | The fiscal evidence also points to an increase in its wealth in relation to the country as a whole : between 1334 and 1515 the assessed wealth of the city increased fifteenfold in absolute terms , and from 2 per cent to 8.9 per cent of the assessed wealth of the nation as a whole ( 101 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It is submitted : ( i ) the judge erred in law in his ruling on count 1 ; ( ii ) for an offence to be committed under section 1(1) of the Act there does not have to be the use by the offender of one computer with intent to secure unauthorised access into another computer ; ( iii ) there is no ambiguity in the wording of section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act which clearly refers to an intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( iv ) section 17(2) and ( 3 ) are applicable to the alleged actions of the respondent in this case ; ( v ) the Act has been drafted so as to deal with the person who misuses a computer to which he has direct ( but unauthorised ) access , as well as a computer into which he is able to secure indirect access by operating another computer . ’ |
| 10 | This also applies to an application for any order which would have the effect of varying or discharging an existing order . |
| 11 | Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms . |
| 12 | Moreover this policy positively invites tit-for-tat measures if or when another political party takes over , and this eventually and inevitably leads to an escalation of censorship . |
| 13 | One of the more obvious disadvantages of the monist position is that it almost inevitably leads to an obliteration of the distinction between essential and inessential , or accidental ( " extrinsic " ) properties , or features of things . |
| 14 | But yesterday 's announcement really amounts to an admission that the Government badly bungled its first attempt to lay down by law how English should be taught in schools — only two years ago . |
| 15 | However the only financial commitment a State routinely makes to an organisation is to meet its membership contributions . |
| 16 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 17 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The latter then binds to an InsP 3 receptor ( IP 3 R ) to mobilize stored calcium and to promote an influx of external calcium , perhaps working in conjunction with InsP 4 ( refs 9 , 10 ) . |
| 19 | The W then decays to an electron and a neutrino . |
| 20 | A ‘ backwards ’ proton is in fact nothing more than an antiproton : what the experimenters at CERN look for is a proton ( rather than a neutron ) meeting an antiproton to produce a W particle which then decays to an electron and a neutrino . |
| 21 | She returns to prostitution but then the final exploiter , the pimp , forces himself onto the scene and her life effectively comes to an end . |
| 22 | In a disputed property case , because the Class F effectively comes to an end on the issue of the decree absolute protective steps mentioned in the next section should be taken . |
| 23 | It actually amounts to an increase of ten p in each |
| 24 | These examples , and many others like them , make it necessary for us to ensure that whatever reward we are offering a child actually leads to an increase in his desirable behaviour and whatever punishers we are offering actually lead to weakening of an undesirable behaviour . |
| 25 | For another section of women , childcare never comes to an end even when the children have become adults . |
| 26 | In this respect he is something like a general on a battlefield — except that the battle never comes to an end . |