Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 2 | NORWICH moved to within a point of the top of the table in a scrappy match against relegation-haunted Oldham — but looked a long way short of genuine championship class . |
| 3 | Rigid plans that only work if they are adhered to at every step rarely provide the means for getting back on target once a significant deviation has occurred . |
| 4 | Note that the actual spacing of the piano chords is not adhered to in the arrangement . |
| 5 | And with the mind , even of humans , behaving in a habituated , instinctive fashion , many an insightful perception or suggestion is rejected out of hand by the deeply engrained , yet erroneous , patterns adhered to by the majority . |
| 6 | The closing dates were strictly adhered to by the Office of Works . |
| 7 | The school librarian or teacher is not therefore dealing with a traditional cataloguing and indexing task whereby one system is adhered to within the information retrieval system , as in a card catalogue . |
| 8 | Adults grow to over a metre long and generate electricity of up to 300 volts , while even baby electric catfish only 2 centimetres long can produce 10 volts . |
| 9 | ‘ If you must write — you do n't need to by the way , I can earn enough to support my family — but if you really must , you should always write ‘ Mrs Nigel Hughes ’ at the end of it and tell the editor you are married to me . ’ |
| 10 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 11 | Judge Wroath had applied the right test and come to a decision which he was entitled to come to on the evidence before him . |
| 12 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 13 | 7.4 shall use all reasonable endeavours to fill accepted orders for the Licensed Software with all reasonable despatch but shall not be liable in any way for any loss of trade or profit or any other loss occurring to in the event of delivery being frustrated or delayed . |
| 14 | I can paint anything I want to at the moment , anything , everything . |
| 15 | Mhm do you have do you have a lo I mean is it is it easy to get to in touch say you want to in an emergency , to get in touch with anyone phone , is it is it easy to get to a phone ? |
| 16 | As Levinson ( 1983 : 320 – 21 ) puts it , Conversation , as opposed to monologue , offers the analyst an invaluable analytical resource : as each turn is responded to by a second , we find displayed in that second an analysis of the first by its recipient . |
| 17 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 18 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 19 | In this approach , each participant in a discourse has a presupposition pool and his pool is added to as the discourse proceeds . |
| 20 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 21 | The fissures between the employers ( large and small ) , the self-employed , and the rentiers , and between these categories and the ‘ salariat ’ of employed professional , managerial and technical workers , have been added to by the fissure between the private sector business salariat and the more newly expanding public sector salariat , so that the notion of the ‘ middle class ’ has virtually reached bursting point . |
| 22 | He 'll never forgive her for the life she has spent and she wo n't let him see what she 's come to at the end of it ! |
| 23 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 24 | Ordered , That , if the Welsh Development Agency Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House , further proceedings on the Bill shall stand postponed and that as soon as the proceedings on any Resolution come to by the House on Welsh Development Agency Bill [ Money ] have been concluded , this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill . |
| 25 | Ordered , That , if the Social Security ( Mortgage Interest Payments ) Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House , further proceedings on the Bill shall stand postponed and that as soon as any proceedings on any Resolution come to by the House on Social Security ( Mortgage Interest Payments ) Bill [ Money ] have been concluded , this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill . |
| 26 | That this must be the explanation for Kammerer 's disturbing results is attested to by the discovery of a wild midwife toad with rudimentary nuptial pads as much as two years before Kammerer took his own life . |
| 27 | If the aggrieved person is not in a contractual relationship with the person responsible for the loss or damage , other areas of law must be looked to for a remedy . |
| 28 | These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 29 | I have also enclosed a few of the papers I referred to at the beginning of the meeting , plus a travel claim form which you are welcome to use . |
| 30 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document B referred to on the agenda . |