Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 32 | However , copying is not necessarily limited to duplication of substantial parts and it is possible to copy a computer program in a wider sense . |
| 33 | First , I do not take the view that the recovery of money paid under duress other than to the person is necessarily limited to duress to goods falling within one of the categories hitherto established by the English cases . |
| 34 | In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) . |
| 35 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 36 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 37 | Weeping became a self-humiliation , an acknowledgement of one 's unworthiness before the god , used only to appeal to Yahweh in the hope of influencing His decisions . |
| 38 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 39 | Under the treaty the role of Japanese troops is almost entirely limited to defence of Japanese territory and sea approaches , but the stationing of US troops on Japanese soil could embroil Japan in any conflict in East Asia . |
| 40 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 41 | The offer 's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form . |
| 42 | The false pretence ( or ‘ deception , ’ to use the new term ) was no long confined to pretence about an existing fact and no longer excluded a misrepresentation as to the offender 's intention . |
| 43 | For this , those feminists , such as Finch and Groves ( 1983 ) , who espoused the cause of their older sisters , can take some credit , particularly in the challenge they threw down to those who assumed without question that such roles would naturally fall to women on their own . |
| 44 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 45 | My experience is almost entirely confined to patients of 65 years and under for practical reasons . |
| 46 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 47 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 48 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 49 | The scales of sexuality tip at the point where a person is more highly attracted to others of his or her own sex than to those of opposite gender . |
| 50 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 51 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 52 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 53 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 54 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 55 | This lack of discrimination suggests that the general knowledge required is not highly related to attainment in mathematics . |
| 56 | Their view on discipline may be highly related to experiences of a strict and authoritarian father . |
| 57 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 58 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 59 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
| 60 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |