Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ask yourself , John , a device the size of a nuclear tactical shell used by the artillery , with damage confined only to the research station , or the dissemination of some of the most deadly bacterial and viral agents the world has ever known . ’ |
| 2 | Increasingly , as penetration of the West European markets on any large scale failed to materialise , the German states looked eastwards to the less socially advanced , less well-organised societies along their borders . |
| 3 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 4 | Since there are substantial differences between industrial relations across industries , which may be unrelated to the national context in which they operate , what is really an ‘ industry ’ effect could be misinterpreted as being a ‘ national ’ effect in a comparative study confined solely to the national level . |
| 5 | Adenocarcinoma arising in CLO was defined as either : ( 1 ) Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus arising in patients with CLO already present ; ( 2 ) Adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus confined solely to the oesophagus and associated with specialised type metaplastic CLO ; ( 3 ) Adenocarcinoma in situ in Barrett 's oesophagus requiring oesophagectomy . |
| 6 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 7 | Neither of the three potential ATG translation initiation sequences matched exactly to the extended Kozak consensus ( ccAcc ATG G [ 22 ] . |
| 8 | His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down . |
| 9 | During adolescence , the teenager may develop special meanings for certain words known only to the peer group and not understood by adults . |
| 10 | So far labour has been treated as a passive agency responding to the pressures of market forces and managerial authority but how has labour reacted collectively to the loss of property rights in particular skills ? |
| 11 | We now describe a simple framework intended to link some of the conceptual aspects discussed above to the theoretical and empirical sections that follow . |
| 12 | However , reports of severe damage and high casualty figures began to come in from communities situated closer to the ‘ quake 's epicentre , and they learned that the emergency services were bringing many of the most badly injured victims in to the capital . |
| 13 | This ‘ ringing ’ can be detected by transducers connected mechanically to the bar . |
| 14 | Emily found her gaze drawn irresistibly to the scene outside , she longed to rush to the auctioneer and put a stop to the proceedings . |
| 15 | The framework is fixed about 50mm from the party wall , and into this space is hung a sound-absorbent quilt , held by a batten fixed either to the wall or ceiling . |
| 16 | It is no , it is no coincidence that in a question asked today to the Labour Party , we will find that we a year ago when the Tory 's proposals were still being implemented , over eleven hundred people were granted in the right to buy their own Council house . |
| 17 | Crisp , out on his feet staggered away to the left . |
| 18 | Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary ? |
| 19 | TRIANGLE CINEMA is an arthouse venue situated close to the city centre at Aston University . |
| 20 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 21 | By the introduction of a 75 x 75mm ( 3 x 3in ) square-section hollow steel post sited close to the centre of the room for the support of heavy timber trimmers , it was possible to construct a gallery which extends between the flank walls on modestly-sized 38 x 150mm ( 1–1/2 x 6in ) joists , carrying boards which give a platform 2m ( 6–1/2ft ) wide overlooking the larger part of the living-room . |
| 22 | In soft rocks a profile drawn normally to the beach would show a concave form comparable with the long profile of a river . |
| 23 | Previous Marxist descriptions of the democratic state as a nakedly repressive apparatus attuned only to the behests of capitalists sat unsatisfactorily with the apparent emergence of government planning and ‘ caring capitalism ’ , at least in the period from the early 1950s to the late 1970s . |
| 24 | This species is confirmed from only one locality in the Outer Hebrides , although plants identified just to the genus Salicornia alone are recorded quite widely . |
| 25 | And I have heard a name given already to the impious thief who dared disturb her . |
| 26 | One point favouring all theories that rely on changes affecting the Solar System as a whole , rather than changes confined merely to the Earth , is that the planet Mars is currently , like our own world , in the throes of an ice age . |
| 27 | The Pharisees looked forward to the coming of the Messiah . |
| 28 | The persons transferred automatically to the purchaser are all persons employed within the business being sold at or immediately before the time of sale whose contracts would otherwise ( at common law ) have been terminated by the sale . |
| 29 | In this case , the contact in the CRP dimer should involve the exposed loop around residues 158–162 of the subunit positioned closer to the promoter start at lac UV5 since this is the location of the positive control mutations affecting type I promoters [ 5–7 ; and R.Ebright , unpublished results ] . |
| 30 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |