Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French king Robert the Pious ( 996 – 1031 ) allegedly delighted in generosity to the poor , in acts of humility , such as when he washed the feet of 160 clerics with his own hair , and in making gifts to churches . |
| 2 | The main charges being investigated were acts committed in relation to the 1968 invasion by Warsaw Pact troops and to the November 1989 demonstrations as well as more general charges involving abuse of official authority , political interference in legal proceedings , illegal property and currency transactions , and embezzlement . |
| 3 | Despite the egress of isolated specimens , museum collections grow in proportion to the director 's burden of deciding what to accept . |
| 4 | Given the above potential for arbitrage profits , it was argued that if enough investors acted on this opportunity , the price of ABC Ltd would rise and that of XYZ Ltd would fall in response to the changing pattern of demand . |
| 5 | The surface above will rise or fall in response to the changes in volume brought about by these alterations in mineral density . |
| 6 | Because viewing distance from the screen does not fall in proportion to the screen dimensions , this resolution becomes acceptable . |
| 7 | It is in the fact that a golden thread methodology may be a two-stage operation that its potential value lies in relation to the issue of women . |
| 8 | The assisted area map may well change after the general election , but I can assure my hon. Friend that we ensure absolute fairness between assisted areas and that no one area is disadvantaged or advantaged in relation to the others . |
| 9 | A subject who not only finds science exciting but also believes it can be applied to help people and produce wealth and employment could hardly be bettered in answer to the white coated caricature with which Ian Fells began . |
| 10 | However , the account goes further and this is what matters in relation to the study being dealt with in this book . |
| 11 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 12 | Research is focused on what is actually happening in response to the innovation . |
| 13 | In such cases it is necessary to work in opposition to the constraints of the context , so that the work can not be read as an affirmation of questionable ideologies and political power . |
| 14 | In addition , the temporal basis of North American forest use has varied in relation to the extension of early colonial settlers across the continent , but as Table 8.1 illustrates , the turning-point in US forest history came in 1891 with the General Revision Act . |
| 15 | The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time . |
| 16 | Opposition politicians on Sept. 5 alleged that senior officials were involved in corruption and influence peddling in relation to the privatization of state assets . |
| 17 | It was deliberately dismissive , but a scorching anger rose in response to the searingly contemptuous look he gave her . |
| 18 | ‘ Florian is a colleague ! ’ she flared , trying to contend with the wrenching anguish that rose in response to the sexual jealousy that seemed to mock her with its similarity to the emotional sort . |
| 19 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 20 | Recognising that this stands in contradiction to the statements contained in the terms and conditions of engagement which they offer their casual workers , some organisations seek to make it clear that they are no more than " collecting agents for the revenue " . |
| 21 | As a building , it stands in testimony to the skills and industry of those who contributed in so many ways to its design , construction and furnishing . |
| 22 | The article leads you to wonder about her religious faith , if she has one , and about where it stands in relation to the outlook of the editor of Commentary , author of a book about his ambitions for worldly success : Making it must be the least pious book that has ever been written . |
| 23 | The initial verb + noun phrase combination shows in essence a property word extended by an entity word , and it therefore remains a ( complex ) property ; the adjective then further extends this property ; but because it is an adjective rather than an adverb , its own property is understood as applicable to the entity identified by the noun phrase , with the important reservation , demanded by the intensional structure , that it will not be applied to it unconditionally but only insofar as that entity stands in relation to the verb which accompanies it . |
| 24 | This can be seen to underlie economic change in the UK in that the older industrialized regions have tended to suffer in relation to the expanding regions of the south of England . |
| 25 | Some Wall Street analysts responded in rage to the report , Reuter reports : ‘ Even to have a recommendation of splitting up the company is ridiculous , ’ says Piper Jaffray analyst David Rothschild . |
| 26 | If such an allotment would be prohibited by foreign law , or would only be permitted subject to compliance with onerous filing or other obligations , the scheme can be modified in relation to the overseas shareholders in question by providing for the consideration securities to be allotted to an independent trustee who will then sell the securities and account to the shareholders with the net proceeds . |
| 27 | Members of the Palestinian business community voted in elections to the Chamber of Commerce in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 18 . |
| 28 | The stage number is added in parentheses to the name or formula . |
| 29 | Jess , who had come in response to the message brought by Midnight from Miss Jarman , stood in the doorway appalled . |
| 30 | If it is withdrawn , then the advertiser is in breach of contract with any bidder who had come in response to the advertisement . |