Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of a defect is expressly limited to replacement of the diskette as provided above . |
| 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 | The machine-based fundament of modern civilisation has emancipated even those most exposed to severance from the requirements of life ; broader and less mutilated existence become a viable possibility . |
| 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 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 6 | However , copying is not necessarily limited to duplication of substantial parts and it is possible to copy a computer program in a wider sense . |
| 7 | First , I do not take the view that the recovery of money paid under duress other than to the person is necessarily limited to duress to goods falling within one of the categories hitherto established by the English cases . |
| 8 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 9 | Under the treaty the role of Japanese troops is almost entirely limited to defence of Japanese territory and sea approaches , but the stationing of US troops on Japanese soil could embroil Japan in any conflict in East Asia . |
| 10 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 11 | The false pretence ( or ‘ deception , ’ to use the new term ) was no long confined to pretence about an existing fact and no longer excluded a misrepresentation as to the offender 's intention . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 14 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 15 | This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics . |
| 16 | Pliocene uplift of the isthmus linking North and South America , apparently related to movement of the Cocos Plate in the East Pacific , is a classic example of complementarity and is also significant from a Darwinian point of view . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 19 | The audience was constantly moved to applause by the spectacle , and Colonel Fergusson would nudge his daughter heavily at some particularly felicitous aspect of the display . |
| 20 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 21 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 22 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 23 | Inadequate knowledge of basic factors resulting in excessive or untimely tillage , improper implements , poor use of the right equipment , burning of crop residues , and excessive livestock grazing have all contributed to erosion on cultivated land … |
| 24 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 25 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 26 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 27 | While philosophy and history may be used as part of a tactic for establishing the disciplinary validity of English against the soft option charge , the essence of English is none the less taken to inhere in its " nobler , more eternal and universal element " , that very artistic quality which is said to transcend both the historical process and all systems of ideas : |
| 28 | She had been very ill and suddenly taken to hospital without Darren 's knowing why . |
| 29 | personally inscribed to Core by the author . |
| 30 | Le Cerf was rightly taken to task for his selective criticisms of Bononcini , 3 but the tonal oddness of Quando ridi is by no means exceptional in Italian music of the period . |