Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 2 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 3 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 4 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 5 | This does not mean however that the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine was unreservedly upheld : boundary treaties and treaties creating rights or obligations relating to the use of territory and considered as appertaining to the territory of the successor State are express exceptions . |
| 6 | All of these , to repeat , although there is some uncertainty and inconsistency , are presented as answers to the question of the meaning or semantics of certain " if " statements , certainly including dependent nomic conditionals . |
| 7 | The document used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , and the CED used in place of the OALD as the source of definitions . |
| 8 | The data used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , with the newly indexed CED definitions as the source of definitions . |
| 9 | In this article I would like to have a look at the nuts and bolts of his style , with the emphasis being shifted to the devices that he uses as opposed to the specific parts that he plays . |
| 10 | Many wild and rash speculations will not survive subsequent testing and consequently will not be rated as contributing to the growth of scientific knowledge . |
| 11 | Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions . |
| 12 | The first 156 items on a frequency ranked list were selected as input to the concordance program . |
| 13 | Problems which may arise in any family are those which may be seen as related to the Oedipal situation — the sexual attachment which arises between parent and child and which is not always worked through adequately . |
| 14 | He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever . |
| 15 | This can be seen as referring to the relationship between ‘ inputs ’ and ‘ outputs ’ when comparing the achievements of different groups of students and different institutions . |
| 16 | The SOC , without actually rejecting the plan , gave the least enthusiastic response , with strong reservations about disarmament and about the SNC assuming direct control of key ministries , which was seen as amounting to the dissolution of the SOC government . |
| 17 | Both literature and social or cultural reality are de fined by structuralist theory in semiotic terms , so that ( as in the Bakhtinian theory ) they are seen as belonging to the same order . |
| 18 | He took over 69 per cent of the vote , as opposed to just under 30 per cent for his rival , former senator Narciso Irureta , seen as belonging to the left wing of the party . |
| 19 | The erudition acquired in his Oxford years was displayed in copious references to the medieval doctors , to the Church Fathers , and to Plato and Aristotle before them , in order to show that no infallible revelation could dispossess reason from her task of pursuing truth : not only must the Scriptures be interpreted in the light of reason , but the Old Testament must be seen as leading to the New by progressive revelation . |
| 20 | In the case of the Mathematical Association , many of the older school-based members will have constructed their careers in terms of existing definitions of school mathematics and [ … ] will have had an interest , all other things being equal , in resisting changes which might be seen as leading to the relative devaluation of their ‘ knowledge ’ . |
| 21 | At other times it may be barely admitted to consciousness , if whatever it was is seen as threatening to the self . |
| 22 | More curiously still , by promoting the figure of Charlemagne , Otto has also been seen as contributing to the creation of the French state : ‘ The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognised outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . ’ |
| 23 | Because of the scale of its command over resources , the government can spread its risks over many projects and so is justified in undertaking more investment in research and development than would occur if left to the private sector . |
| 24 | He dithered , wondering whether to go to the restaurant for a cup of coffee while hoping Hunter-Blair would return or else to find a telephone and call his office . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're not at a checkpoint at the moment , ’ says Spill , ‘ but the P5 will be there before we reach the next one … and many people are waiting for the P5 before deciding whether to go to the R4000 . |
| 26 | The appearance of agreement under a standard form agreement masks the reality of the weaker party having little freedom in practice in deciding whether to agree to the standard terms or not . |
| 27 | Drew turned to Perdita , who was deciding whether to race to the loo and be sick again . |
| 28 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 29 | This was put through the confusion simulator and then used as input to the overlap program . |
| 30 | These texts were then processed by the confusion simulator program , and the output used as input to the definitional overlap program . |