Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 4 | This presumably refers to devotional access to the rood-loft ( by newel stair or ladder ) . |
| 5 | The main wind-break should protect the side of the garden most exposed to prevailing winds , with individual or grouped shrubs positioned to limit the impact of other seasonal winds and create sheltered corners for delicate plants . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression . |
| 8 | The lysates also contained several immunoreactive polypeptides with smaller M r s , which presumably correspond to proteolytic degradation products of the two native PLCs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 11 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | CID is also being extended to cover those persons forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals . |
| 14 | Jackson 's work is fundamentally committed to formal concerns ; the spatial effects of colour , the purity of form , the dynamics of line ; the paintings appear both as experiments in aesthetics and exercises in logic . |
| 15 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 16 | In Drosophila the spatial expression of dpou-19 , ( pdm-2 ) , dpou-28 ( pdm-1 ) , and cfla is predominantly confined to restricted areas at the cellular blastoderm stage and , later in development , to the embryonic nervous system and the hindgut ( 17,18 ) . |
| 17 | NCD 's share shows no sign of slipping , says Greg Blatnik of the X Business Group , even though the system vendors are all likely to increase their share — one reason might be that it 's more important for NCD systems to work with a variety of hosts — Peter Wellings of NCD 's UK distributor Xanadu claims that DEC , for instance , has had its X-terminal success mostly confined to existing DEC installations . |
| 18 | The showers , mostly confined to western areas , will be heavy with thunder , and will spread to some other parts later . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He 's probably a prosperous American businessman prosperous enough to go to international conventions : try all the American and international reference books in our library then the London Library . |
| 22 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 23 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 24 | It is strongly advised that this privilege is only given to responsible users — please contact Sema Software Technology Technical Support Department for further advice . |
| 25 | Standardization only refers to certain aspects of a product 's design — there is still scope for variation . |
| 26 | In other words , when he was talking about psychology , and these are quotes from Darwin 's Expression of the Emotions , Darwin not only refers to acquired characteristics , which he believes in , but he even refers to evolution by will . |
| 27 | It must be realised that the dichotomy : simple/complex only refers to ideal types and not to real societies . |
| 28 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 29 | It is certainly less idealized , and less given to black-and-white distinctions . |
| 30 | If ignored , stress not only contributes to physical disorders such as heart disease , high blood pressure , ulcers and asthma , it can also lead to a variety of mental illnesses of which insomnia , depression and irritability are just early symptoms . |