Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the people who work in the institutions who are most exposed to our dislike . |
| 2 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
| 3 | With these exceptions , troops lived in barracks , and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories . |
| 4 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 5 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 6 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 7 | We both accepted this without question , and a marriage allowance was duly added to my salary . |
| 8 | The Vancouver based Rob Boyd duly added to his record here — a second to go with the two wins and a third . |
| 9 | Shannon felt the bed sink slightly as he sat down beside her , and suddenly realised to her horror that the towel she 'd wrapped about herself had slipped off as she slept . |
| 10 | But in case he shall die in my Lifetime then I desire that my Coffin be made by his Son in like manner as his Father was to have made the same for which I Will he shall be paid the Sum of Ten Pounds and that in such Case the said Legacy of Ten Pounds so given to his father shall cease and not be paid . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend rightly referred to our job as a guarantor power and , in that respect , we must do everything we can with the Turks , the Greeks and the Cypriots to help Secretary-General Perez De Cuellar to make some progress in his remaining weeks of office . |
| 12 | They are also being personally recommended to his clients by Nicholas Bonham , the Deputy Chairman of Bonhams Auctioneers . |
| 13 | ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’ |
| 14 | His hair naturally curled to his shoulders . |
| 15 | I 've merely come to my senses where women are concerned . ’ |
| 16 | They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis . |
| 17 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 18 | Even the deeds of valour , so proudly recorded , only added to her depression as she reminded herself that each was committed in response to yet one more example of man 's inhumanity to man . |
| 19 | By the time she reached the bottom the dragon had vanished , but this , far from mattering , only added to her amusement . |
| 20 | It was the same sensitive touch he brought to their lovemaking , and the knowledge only added to her store of love for him , for she saw how he was the sort of man who was all of a piece , mentally and physically , a complete human being , someone she could only admire , despite the hell he put her through . |
| 21 | However , the fact that the royal scholars had found conservative rather than revolutionary arguments to support their case only added to their appeal , and Henry read the Collectanea with interest and approval in the late summer of 1530 . |
| 22 | This had become a source of irritation to her companions and only added to their resentment . |
| 23 | The inherent exoticism of the place can have only added to its allure and , for those whose tastes tended in that direction , the soft purring caresses and total availability of the bar-girls must have seemed irresistible . |
| 24 | It was totally different from anything Sabine possessed in England , but that only added to its charm . |
| 25 | The fact that he might be taking a considerable risk only added to his excitement . |
| 26 | But the behaviour of Reverend Prentice has only added to his anguish . |
| 27 | The edginess of the others only added to his opinion of his own rectitude . |
| 28 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 29 | After sending in a tape , with a biography , contact address and a photo , a useful approach can be to update the A&R department every time your band does one or a series of gigs. send in a sheet of paper personally addressed to your target A&R person . |
| 30 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |