Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these exceptions , troops lived in barracks , and certainly the officers were rarely posted to their home territories . |
| 2 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 3 | However , the fact that the royal scholars had found conservative rather than revolutionary arguments to support their case only added to their appeal , and Henry read the Collectanea with interest and approval in the late summer of 1530 . |
| 4 | This had become a source of irritation to her companions and only added to their resentment . |
| 5 | Labour MP Tam Dalyell yesterday said : ‘ The fact that these allegations are made in a book generally praising the conduct of British troops only adds to their seriousness . |
| 6 | For civil servants , the advantage is that the doctrine leaves them utterly free of any repercussions arising from their advice and thus greatly adds to their freedom and power . |
| 7 | Were they so committed to their cause that the thought did n't bother them , like the Japanese . |
| 8 | Anger , discontent , anxiety , hunger and even parasitic infections ( all related to their work as laundrywomen , rural labourers and domestic workers ) are filtered through the metaphor of nervos . |
| 9 | By the same token , teaching them is important , but only if it is constantly related to their purpose within religions . |
| 10 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 11 | Women are generally less tied to their work and more able to adjust to retirement ( though as more and more women devote great energy and interest to a career , this is changing ) . |
| 12 | Having established this effective , impressive mode of building , so suited to their race , the Germans seemed unwilling to abandon it . |
| 13 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 14 | Evolution does not always make creatures more complex , more intelligent , bigger , better adapted to their environment , or whatever . |
| 15 | Similarly , the attempt to remove barriers to investment has merely led to their redistribution , for instead of paying rates inside Enterprise Zones firms pay higher rents and property prices ( Erikson and Syms , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | The printer had become sufficiently reconciled to their presence to give him a friendly wave . |
| 17 | A detailed analysis of such techniques is beyond the scope of this book , and so the coverage given to them will be generally limited to their marketing applications . |
| 18 | We generally got to their place just as they were finishing breakfast . |
| 19 | We are concerned with people , some of whom are men and some women , and the cognitive differences between them are not easily traced to their gender . |
| 20 | The small suffix letter E was soon added to their fleet numbers . |
| 21 | To achieve this end , it proposes to provide students with experiences which are functionally related to their course work . |
| 22 | Now , for the first time , the Library has the opportunity to mount imaginative , multi-media displays , individually tailored to their subject matter and capable of competing on equal terms with exhibitions in other major venues . |
| 23 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction . |
| 24 | The pragmatics of all these statements — the ways they are used to produce certain effects on the people to whom they are addressed — are thus tied to their propaganda value for particular campaigns or positions , or to their instrumental value in furthering the personal or political objectives of particular individuals or groups . |
| 25 | He told the police they normally walked to their accommodation in Forest Road by a different route , but on that day they went along Boundary Road because the other path was muddy . |
| 26 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
| 27 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 28 | The low number of trainers , who are already stretched to their limit , gives rise for concern . |
| 29 | More importantly for long-run , strategic competitiveness , US firms have emphasised technologies best suited to their home markets , not necessarily the global ones . |
| 30 | A governess has no time of her own , no friends , no one to talk to , and if she gets angry with the children , they just run to their mother . |