Example sentences of "[verb] to [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is felt that the conventional conveyancing procedure should be adhered to for the reasons stated in Chapter 3 . |
| 2 | Note that the actual spacing of the piano chords is not adhered to in the arrangement . |
| 3 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 4 | At the slightest sign of originality in approach or technique a director might well be regarded as a menace and any departure from the hoary formula adhered to by the executives could be considered highly presumptuous . |
| 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 | Notations are made on the card as to the reasons for blacklisting , and any instructions such as ‘ refer to manager ’ , ‘ do not accept ’ or ‘ undesirable ’ should be carefully adhered to by the staff . |
| 8 | This may be dealt with in some way in the contract in that a certain notice period may have been specified and this may have been adhered to by the parties . |
| 9 | However , influenced by the fact that the deterrence policy is firmly adhered to by the governments of the superpowers and has some political acceptability , and that the traditional doctrine of the laws of war did not apply to preparation for war , his eventual conclusion is that it would be difficult to state that any measures short of use are illegal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 13 | Judge Wroath had applied the right test and come to a decision which he was entitled to come to on the evidence before him . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I can paint anything I want to at the moment , anything , everything . |
| 17 | Other such clues may have gone unnoticed by the researcher , though responded to by the subjects . |
| 18 | This page enables you to indicate which versions of which modules are likely to be involved in the problem or suggestion responded to by the SSR . |
| 19 | Is a human being and his idea-thinking process like a healthy tree in that there is the stable main trunk with subsidiary branches that grow slowly and are added to through the years ? |
| 20 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 21 | In this approach , each participant in a discourse has a presupposition pool and his pool is added to as the discourse proceeds . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This legacy has been added to down the years , and continues to develop . |
| 24 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 25 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 26 | Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 30 | 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 . |