Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 2 | In the centre of Cardigan an earth mover used to try to reach a trapped mother and child overturned , and the occupiers eventually scrambled to safety . |
| 3 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 4 | Similarly , it was announced that from Nov. 1 encouragement would be given to the private development and management of industrial estates , activities hitherto restricted to state agencies . |
| 5 | Often , the groups of fans most dedicated to hooligan behaviour are organised into hard-core ‘ fighting crews ’ ( e.g. the Leeds United ‘ Service Crew ’ , Manchester United 's ‘ Red Devils ’ , West Ham 's ‘ Inter City Crew ’ , Chelsea 's ‘ Anti-Personnel Firm ’ , Arsenal 's ‘ Gooners ’ , Millwall 's ‘ Bushwackers ’ , Tottenham 's ‘ The Spurs Yids ’ and , in Scotland , Aberdeen 's ‘ Soccer Casuals ’ ) . |
| 6 | My yellow peril , caked with the red mud of the interior , is trapped in a convoy of vintage cars all polished to perfection . |
| 7 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 8 | A worthy churchman more addicted to hunting than to academics . |
| 9 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 10 | RM1 , on the other hand , returns all possible word matches , but performs the search strictly left to right . |
| 11 | In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism . |
| 12 | Most UV pond systems have been adapted from commercial sterilising units originally designed to product pure drinking water . |
| 13 | Meredith simply continued to eye him steadily , and he chuckled . |
| 14 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |
| 15 | Initially delivered to the RAAF it was sold in 1946 to the Tasmanian Aero Club then passed to South Australia Aerial Spraying in 1954 as a crop duster . |
| 16 | It makes use of the existence of a synthetic chemical closely related to glucose , 2-deoxyglucose , or 2-DG . |
| 17 | The nineteenth century work of Pavlov on the conditioned reflex generated vain hopes that psychology , and in particular learning , might be studied by a rigorous methodology closely allied to physiology . |
| 18 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |
| 19 | The goals commonly attributed to management , in no particular order , are status , power , salary , and security . |
| 20 | If there was in fact any such material discrepancy or inconsistency it would have been the duty of counsel for the Crown to inform the defence of the fact , and indeed the learned trial judge expressly referred to Crown counsel 's duty in this respect . |
| 21 | Although the Secret Committee formally agreed to publication of Nazimov 's instructions , many contemporaries recorded the attempts of committee members to prevent it . |
| 22 | In winter more confined to coast than Herring and Lesser Black-back. 25–31 in. ( 64 79 cm . ) . |
| 23 | Such a definition also excludes approaches to modernity and modernism which focus upon an outlook or attitude usually restricted to elite sections of the population such as artists and planners ( for example Berman 1983 ) . |
| 24 | Young boy always used to muck about with |
| 25 | The high number of farms with adult cattle was surprising especially in areas more suited to breeding stock . |
| 26 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 27 | Practically all the separate functions traditionally attributed to intonation ( attitudinal , accentual and grammatical ) could be seen as different aspects of discourse function . |
| 28 | It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year . |
| 29 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 30 | The left wing advanced a short distance beyond the Steenbeek rivulet and Langemarck , a village now reduced to rubble . |