Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all had permits and the rules were strictly adhered to with a heavy fine for intruders . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 5 | The disorganized and diverse activity that precedes the formation of a science eventually becomes structured and directed when a single paradigm becomes adhered to by a scientific community . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Exactly this point was made by the Cabinet Committee of the Leeds Liberal Federation in 1921 , and adhered to throughout the 1920s . |
| 8 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | So the total number of biomorphs that we could jump to in a single step is 19 times itself 9 times over : 19 to the power 9 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 13 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 14 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 15 | And I even forget to post the free ones . |
| 16 | Finally , try not to make your list too long — this will ensure that the items you really want are chosen first — and if necessary it can be added to at a later date . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was much smaller than she 'd imagined , just a country house , she thought , which had been added to in a haphazard way over the centuries . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The standard set of Spectrum keys have been added to in an intelligent way too . |
| 25 | Erm coming in from er on the A six one two from , er we 've come to over the level crossing there . |
| 26 | From where he looked it glistened whitely in the afternoon sunlight , a crystalline growth come to within a dozen li of where they were . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | In ( 100b ) however " it seems that the woman 's intelligence is attested to by an outside source . |
| 30 | A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect , be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be . |