Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 2 | So far as concerns the mental state of the owner ( did he consent ? ) , the Act of 1968 expressly refers to such consent when it is a material factor : see sections 2(1) ( b ) , 11(1) , 12(1) and 13 . |
| 3 | However , apart from references to this by the local residents , an internal memorandum from the borough engineer dated 26 January 1983 expressly refers to 24-hour operation . |
| 4 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 5 | We can not doubt the intention of such a one to mock our normal human relationships and diminish the value which we properly accord to each other . |
| 6 | This presumably refers to devotional access to the rood-loft ( by newel stair or ladder ) . |
| 7 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 8 | France oscillated between mid-nineteenth-century free trade and , more lastingly , protectionism : slow to industrialize , France , for most of the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) , was little given to central planning or state interventionism . |
| 9 | The lysates also contained several immunoreactive polypeptides with smaller M r s , which presumably correspond to proteolytic degradation products of the two native PLCs . |
| 10 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 11 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 12 | This had all been properly reported to Eighth Army . |
| 13 | Rainout occurs when material is incorporated into cloud water droplets or ice crystals which eventually grow to sufficient size to overcome gravity and fall to the ground . |
| 14 | Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion . |
| 15 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 16 | The package , which confirmed Italy 's position as the Western state most committed to Lebanese reconstruction , comprised US$240 million in export credits , US$94 million in concessionary loans , US$64 million in grants and US$63 million in mixed credits . |
| 17 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 18 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 19 | Cooking is especially suhject to this limitation , although it is in theory one of the most liked activities . |
| 20 | Any analytic approach in linguistics which involves contextual considerations , necessarily belongs to that area of language study called pragmatics . |
| 21 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 22 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 23 | The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip . |
| 24 | During the pre-Campaign Wave , visits by Thatcher to Moscow and Kinnock to Washington naturally led to intense television coverage of defence issues . |
| 25 | When the Davy Lamp is taken into air that contains more than 5 per cent of firedamp , or if the air passing the lamp is suddenly contaminated to that extent , the air inside the lamp explodes and puts out the light but the mesh prevents the explosion being transmitted to the air outside the lamp Thus although the miner is put in the dark he is alive to tell the tale . |
| 26 | Researcher : Well , you have only referred to one teacher . |
| 27 | And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys . |
| 28 | The first of these strands , taken up vigorously by many economic commentators in the press and the City , undermined confidence in the ‘ Keynesian ’ approach to demand management and employment policy by suggesting that in the ‘ long run ’ government deficit-financing merely led to higher inflation and was impotent to control employment . |
| 29 | Tories are not much given to Freudian analysis , but one minister said , the party remained psychotic after the trauma of three years ago . |
| 30 | Eamonn McCann described him as a ‘ passionate Republican , much given to violent rhetoric ’ . |