Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 2 | It is perhaps interesting to note that , despite the urgency of the situation , the convention that the accident investigation authority of one State communicates with the accident investigation authority of another State and the airworthiness authority of one State communicates with the airworthiness authority of another State was adhered to in the alerting procedure . |
| 3 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 4 | In response to this threat , Irokawa argues , the ruling classes moved rapidly to reinforce the conventional norms still adhered to by the vast majority of the people , but in a way which removed any spontaneous content and value . |
| 5 | Exactly this point was made by the Cabinet Committee of the Leeds Liberal Federation in 1921 , and adhered to throughout the 1920s . |
| 6 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | Production from the 40 or so fields currently either producing or under development , will fall to around the 20 million tonnes per year level by the end of the century . |
| 8 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | And I even forget to post the free ones . |
| 10 | Ramsay found the Regent Douglas installed in Edinburgh Castle , with a host of lords and chiefs , including no fewer than six earls , a most illustrious company , waiting there while their forces massed and were added to on the adjacent Burgh Muir . |
| 11 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 12 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 13 | It gave the room an artificially cosy feel , which was added to by the open fireplace and the array of expensive leather furniture that dotted the floor , spread out on thick carpet as dark as wet concrete . |
| 14 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 15 | This picture is added to in the next chapter where we examine the informal relations that exist within organisations , and in Chapter 6 where we examine power . |
| 16 | Erm coming in from er on the A six one two from , er we 've come to over the level crossing there . |
| 17 | The reality of this picture of vibrant , ‘ grass roots ’ capitalist development in the Third World is attested to by the abundant evidence of rapidly rising commercialisation and the resulting social differentiation ( especially in the rural areas of Asia and Africa ) , coupled with the relative expansion of wage-labour at the expense of family and self-employment , including feudal-type tenurial relationships . |
| 18 | This tends to be the concern in Great Britain , as attested to by the public response to the Policy Studies Institute study of the Metropolitan Police ( Policy Studies Institute 1983a , b ; for a similar and earlier example , see Holdaway 1977 ) . |
| 19 | The UUAC was looked to as the natural vehicle for action . |
| 20 | Well that article you referred to at the very beginning of the programme in the Observer , the final part of that article went something like this erm ‘ this article is not intended to accuse individuals or colleges . |
| 21 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 22 | The notion of power referred to here is that which Lukes referred to as the second dimension of power ( see Ch. 2 ) . |
| 23 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 26 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 27 | Is the environmental assessment to which my hon. Friend referred the same one as that referred to by the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) who I understood to mean the King 's Cross project , while my hon. Friend was referring to the high-speed link ? |
| 28 | And we now know that these ghastly effects are the results of what we referred to in the last lecture endotoxins . |
| 29 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 30 | Many of the towns on the Banbury map which Professor Hoskins referred to in the previous chapter fall into this category . |