Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 2 | In the centre of Cardigan an earth mover used to try to reach a trapped mother and child overturned , and the occupiers eventually scrambled to safety . |
| 3 | Similarly , it was announced that from Nov. 1 encouragement would be given to the private development and management of industrial estates , activities hitherto restricted to state agencies . |
| 4 | Often , the groups of fans most dedicated to hooligan behaviour are organised into hard-core ‘ fighting crews ’ ( e.g. the Leeds United ‘ Service Crew ’ , Manchester United 's ‘ Red Devils ’ , West Ham 's ‘ Inter City Crew ’ , Chelsea 's ‘ Anti-Personnel Firm ’ , Arsenal 's ‘ Gooners ’ , Millwall 's ‘ Bushwackers ’ , Tottenham 's ‘ The Spurs Yids ’ and , in Scotland , Aberdeen 's ‘ Soccer Casuals ’ ) . |
| 5 | My yellow peril , caked with the red mud of the interior , is trapped in a convoy of vintage cars all polished to perfection . |
| 6 | In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism . |
| 7 | Most UV pond systems have been adapted from commercial sterilising units originally designed to product pure drinking water . |
| 8 | The goals commonly attributed to management , in no particular order , are status , power , salary , and security . |
| 9 | The high number of farms with adult cattle was surprising especially in areas more suited to breeding stock . |
| 10 | Practically all the separate functions traditionally attributed to intonation ( attitudinal , accentual and grammatical ) could be seen as different aspects of discourse function . |
| 11 | No-one was hurt and engineers immediately set to work making temporary repairs to the hull . |
| 12 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 13 | City cyclists more used to traffic fumes will breathe deeply in the clean air around Lake Bolsen in Italy . |
| 14 | Workers eventually returned to work on Monday 16 June , having accepted as satisfactory a Department of Labour Inspectorate report at a meeting over the weekend . |
| 15 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 16 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
| 17 | Eleven-year-old Lesley vanished at Rochdale , Greater Manchester and was found three days later stabbed to death . |
| 18 | From the point of view of teacher activity as pragmatic mediation , operational techniques are the enactment of ideas previously subjected to appraisal which provides them with a rationale . |
| 19 | The Safety Director 's is a delicate job , requiring diplomacy in dealing with academics and researchers traditionally used to autonomy in their laboratories . |
| 20 | But the case has been greatly overstated in some popular publications , and genuine psychological problems wrongly attributed to food sensitivity , both by patients and fringe practitioners . |
| 21 | This Order , which is now in force , allows lay people to represent litigants on a fee paid basis at County Court actions automatically referred to arbitration ( claims not exceeding £1,000 ) . |
| 22 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 23 | One or more peptides from each antigen bound to HLA-B53 in an HLA assembly ( binding ) assay and these were tested further using lymphocytes from Africans naturally exposed to malaria . |
| 24 | CTL against LSA-1 , identified here in Africans naturally exposed to malaria , may also be important in response to immunization with irradiated sporozoites . |
| 25 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose says it has been named as a defendant in a suit alleging breach of oral and written contract with respect to sums allegedly owed to Meridian Systems Inc , which provides sales representative and value-added reseller services ; Frame said the suit is without merit and it will be defended vigorously . |
| 26 | But other diseases directly linked to pollution have also been taking their toll , such as Leucopenia costadas which attacks white blood cells and can develop into anaemia or leukemia . |
| 27 | ICI 's strength in the polypropylene market lies not only in its manufacturing technology which enables it to produce materials specially adapted to customer 's needs but also in the integrated structure of Chemicals & Polymers Limited . |
| 28 | From poetry Margaret Jourdain 's interests gradually shifted to furniture and decorative artefacts . |
| 29 | Furthermore , minimal communication between the board members and the workers seems to take place , with board members legally bound to secrecy over ‘ sensitive ’ company matters . |
| 30 | Cowering before a stone-faced jury is Andy Spearpoint , lyricist and singer with the New Fast Automatic Daffodils , attempting to explain why his gang of rhythmic misfits really needed to foist their multi-tentacled percussion patchworks onto a world already over-run with pop music in all its myriad hybrid strains . |