Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The data used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , with the newly indexed CED definitions as the source of definitions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions . |
| 7 | The first 156 items on a frequency ranked list were selected as input to the concordance program . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was put through the confusion simulator and then used as input to the overlap program . |
| 12 | These texts were then processed by the confusion simulator program , and the output used as input to the definitional overlap program . |
| 13 | This was then used as input to the overlap program that was run separately for each of the 15 documents and for each of the 3 dictionaries . |
| 14 | He pointed to commitments by the Commission and member states to avoid unnecessary testing through agreements on mutual recognition of test results , and the Commission 's support for ‘ fixed dose ’ testing as opposed to the LD50 approach . |
| 15 | This is called ‘ hard ’ copy as opposed to the intangible ‘ soft ’ copy on your screen . |
| 16 | One of the aims of the review was to produce a formula which was empirically based as opposed to the original RAWP formula , which included standardised mortality ratio as a proxy for need on theoretical grounds . |
| 17 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 18 | Feelings about these different tasks do not seem to be dependent primarily on temperament or on personal background ; rather they emerge as related to the kind of conditions under which the tasks are performed . |
| 19 | However , an increasing number of cases are being reported in which patients ' pain does not respond as expected to the most powerful opiates . |
| 20 | Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968 . |
| 21 | Jocelyne Saab , on the other hand , took issue with the question itself , which she saw as confined to the typically limited preoccupations of White , Western , middle-class feminists . |
| 22 | This non-rationalist basis for eliciting support Weber saw as counterposed to the traditional legitimacy of established authority figures , or to the rational — legal authority formalized in bureaucratic systems and based on their superior technical ability . |
| 23 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 24 | ( 1985 : 687 ) suggest something quite similar to Jespersen — " the infinitive marker to may be viewed as related to the spatial preposition to through metaphorical connection " — and illustrate this by the series : How far this metaphorical connection extends is not specified , but it is significant that both Quirk et al. |
| 25 | However , we have already pointed out , by implication , one very important syntactic consequence : only the ascriptive adjectives are eligible to appear predicatively , that is , in a position like that of hungry in : ( 19 ) the antelopes are hungry As was already indicated in Chapter 1 , and as we shall see in more detail in Chapter 3 , predicative position is the surface structure which expresses the intensional relation of assignment , and assignment does require that the property of the adjective should be construed as applied to the entity of the subject noun phrase . |
| 26 | Service occupations , then , are what people do as opposed to the industry which employs them . |
| 27 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 28 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 29 | It has also been proposed that stimuli where accurate detection rests on some form of visuo-spatial ability are better perceived when projected to the right hemisphere . |
| 30 | It has also been proposed that stimuli where accurate detection rests on some form of visuo-spatial ability are better perceived when projected to the right hemisphere . |