Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 2 | Care should be taken for claims relating solely to loss of cash . |
| 3 | Paragraph 5 referred simply to enforcement of a judgment or order against a person who , under the rule , was bound by it . |
| 4 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |
| 5 | Otherwise if we do n't invest money and time in training , we 're forced to have to go outside to sort of buy in people , because we have n't actually invested in them . |
| 6 | In his attempt to determine whether the methods and concepts of ecology and physical geography can contribute effectively to analysis of urban issues in the context of the city as an integrated open system of living things interacting with their physical environment , Douglas ( 1981 ) argues that an attempt must be made to link the city as a habitat or an ecosystem with the city as a social system and he develops an ecosystem approach to the study of cities . |
| 7 | Emerge on to estate road , turn right and after 50 yds where road bends right , take gate ahead and cross parkland , passing just to left of Fawsley church . |
| 8 | ‘ ALTHOUGH the contribution of the world we live in to the levels of risk is most obvious for accidents , developments in medical thinking throughout the last two centuries have indicated how by modifying the way we live — originally through general improvements in diet and hygiene , more recently through changes in education and social welfare — we can contribute substantially to prolongation of healthy life or its reduction by increasing smoke pollution and cigarette consumption ’ . |
| 9 | As Trudgill ( 1974 ) has shown ( see figure 5.2 ) , [ h ] -loss in Norwich is socially stratified , with lower-class speakers tending strongly to loss of [ h ] , despite the fact that surrounding rural dialects tend to preserve [ h ] . |
| 10 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , many teachers ( and others ) foresaw , when they read the assessment proposals in TNC , the possibility of a ‘ national maths ( or science , etc. ) day ’ when all pupils would take the nationally prescribed tests leading eventually to publication of results for each class ( and their teacher ) , each school and each LEA . |
| 12 | • Media work has a particular significance , leading naturally to discussion of how spoken language and visual accompaniment are interpreted ; this leads to an understanding of the processes of selection , omission and editing which take place when any programme is prepared . |
| 13 | These results owe less to diversification of any kind than to capital gains in the market for corporate control . |
| 14 | Not that he was short of offers , but most of them , before the banal fashion for numbered sequels , were on the lines of After the Graduate , Another Graduate , Shadow of the Graduate , The Graduate Comes Home and Song of the Graduate , leading inevitably to Son of the Graduate . |
| 15 | In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use . |
| 16 | On reaching corner of hedge , right of way proceeds quarter left , aiming for left-hand side of small conifer plantation just in front of which cross footbridge and proceed to left of plantation to pick up track leading uphill to village of Bag Enderby ( a ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I shall look forward to hearing of you . ’ |
| 18 | I look forward to hearing of a way out of this problem that is keeping the Boys Brigade in Waltham Forest on dry land . |
| 19 | I shall table a parliamentary question about that and I look forward to confirmation of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has just said . |
| 20 | Do not make for it but bear half right aiming just to right of nearest bushes . |
| 21 | Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found . |
| 22 | Examiners , when they identify reasons for failure , refer repeatedly to lack of skill and aptitude in problem solving , judgment , and communication . |
| 23 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 24 | The first little bit of time is spent just to sort of take it easy , take our time , get to know another , and for us to assess the drive . |
| 25 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 26 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 27 | And we go finally to Rosemary of Cambridge and she would like to plant two nice shrub rose bushes . |
| 28 | Many workers proceed directly to examination of thin sections , but there is a great deal of information to be obtained from examining rock slices and cut faces , particularly in the case of limestones and sandstones . |
| 29 | Clearly this damage caused decompression of the pressurised cabin , but it should not necessarily have led automatically to separation of the horizontal tail surfaces . |
| 30 | In next field keep well to left of trees ahead by bearing quarter left ( soon fence away to right comes into view ) . |