Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His starting point was dissatisfaction with most sociological theories of crime ( especially anomie and subcultural theories ) for reasons which are now familiar : their assumption that we naturally conform to conventionally defined goals and the means of achieving them , and that we consequently require some ‘ push ’ ( or ‘ strain ’ , as Hirschi calls it ) to propel us into crime . |
| 2 | ‘ For example , a decreasing number of persons still object to locally based provisions for mentally handicapped people because understandably their picture of the latter is bounded by bizarre and frightening images often associated with traditional mental handicap hospitals … |
| 3 | A quark supposedly has one third charge or two thirds charge , but nobody has ever managed to actually produced a free quark , but people do believe they exist because they explain almost all the properties that neutrons and protons have , and other particles . |
| 4 | The hazard of confiscation by Frenchmen of opposing loyalties in times of political turbulence , or at the hands of the English during the occupation of much of northern France between 1417 and 1450 , could also lead to greatly diminished revenues . |
| 5 | Flushes of the face and a flushed face — a false kind of plethora that is often confined to well described circular patches on the cheeks . |
| 6 | To provide temporary shut off for routine servicing , such a re-washering , push-fit service valves are also available : the valve can be operated from fully open to fully closed by a quarter-turn screwdriver slot . |
| 7 | these are non-electrical ( and therefore silent in operation ) , and can be adjusted from fully open to fully closed . |
| 8 | Most servicing valves have an internal ball with a hole through it , so that just a quarter of a turn is needed to move the valve from fully open to fully closed . |
| 9 | A cursory look at the experience of late capitalist economies across the world suggests that changes in the labour process are closely linked to highly demarcated differentiations in the labour force ; socially constructed identities that describe the division of labour , differential incorporation into the economy tied to cultural ( ideological ) constructions of gender , skill , age and race . |