Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( i ) bodily injury sustained while under the influence of or ( ii ) disablement due wholly or partly to the effects of intoxicating liquor or drugs other than drugs taken in accordance with treatment prescribed and directed by a qualified registered medical practitioner but not for the treatment of drug addiction . |
| 2 | The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer . |
| 3 | And the ‘ trade dispute ’ itself — the central concept of the system of immunities — is now confined to disputes with a worker 's own employer only and to disputes which relate wholly or mainly to the industrial conditions of the workers in that employment unit only . |
| 4 | Thus non-agricultural activities should be considered alongside those which directly use land , and this is particularly important where there is widespread rural-urban migration with or without a remittance economy ( e.g. South Yemen where outmigration to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf has led to the abandonment of terracing ; the Rif in Morocco and Algeria ; the Nepalese hills ; Lesotho and other labour reserves of Southern Africa ; or the Andean highlands where many of the male population have migrated seasonally or permanently to the coastal cities ) . |
| 5 | In 1921 Lloyd George came suddenly and dramatically to an accommodation with Sinn Fein . |
| 6 | But the anterior of many other dinosaurs was aligned alongside and parallel to the posterior bone ( the ischium ) , instead of pointing forwards as with the saurischians . |
| 7 | Below and just to the right of the balcony are several one pitch climbs : Delirium très mince ( 6a ) is probably the hardest . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister described the murder as " a grievous loss both to me personally and also to the parliamentary life of this country and to his constituency " . |
| 9 | The classic working-class ‘ mum ’ , living at home to look after her numerous children with the man as the bread-winner , while a folk myth sustained by the Inland Revenue and the population census amongst others in the 1970s , conformed less and less to the reality . |
| 10 | He led the way swiftly and quietly to the exit which gave on to the quadrangle . |
| 11 | There she was in a conventional two-piece suit , fine dark wool , muted geometrical pattern in greens and unexpected straw browns , caught in at the waist — still very thin — to give the effect of a bustle , the skirt long and straight to the knee . |
| 12 | General manager Alan Roberts said : ‘ We have listened long and hard to the needs of our supporters and given great consideration to our long-term aims at home and in Europe . |
| 13 | We walked out into the sun together and across to the school hall . |
| 14 | The gain required is rather high , and the circuit can easily become unstable , especially when close to the high currents flowing via IC2 . |
| 15 | Accordingly , butchers are learning to help us ‘ think forwards to the meal , rather than backwards to the animal in the field ’ , as the trade press exhorts . |
| 16 | The position is perhaps best described by saying that the directors owe their duties to the present and the future shareholders , rather than simply to the particular persons who are shareholders at the relevant time . |
| 17 | We were all marking time , waiting for our demob , and tended to look back wistfully at what was past and familiar , rather than forward to the unknown future . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 19 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 20 | I regressed Carol to the night of the crime , taking her back to the outing to the cinema rather than straight to the heart of the distressing incident . |
| 21 | The same muddle is evident in Mathematics , 510 , whose arrangement is practically meaningless to modern mathematicians , and in the artificial separation of closely related topics in physics , mathematics , chemistry and biology , which these days are regarded as interdisciplinary whole subject areas of their own , relating tangentially rather than uni-dimensionally to the general scheme . |
| 22 | It is n't easy to talk naturally to a piece of machinery and your performers may find it easier to talk to you rather than directly to the camera . |
| 23 | The titles of such degrees bear this out : headings such as physics , geography , sociology , English and history refer to the well-established and familiar ‘ bodies of knowledge ’ discussed in Chapter 2 , which can constitute an ‘ internal ’ rationale for the course of study without any necessity to refer outside or beyond to the world of work . |
| 24 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |
| 25 | The Hague city centre is only 10 minutes away and close to the hotel is the bustling promenade and boulevard with its infinite entertainment and shopping possibilities . |
| 26 | The aim of Index pages is to lead you easily and quickly to the option required , without needing to know , or remember , all the steps before starting . |
| 27 | The aim of Index pages is to lead you easily and quickly to the option required , without needing to know , or remember , all the option numbers before starting . |
| 28 | Physical exercise : When you take regular physical exercise your circulation improves and therefore oxygen is carried more easily and rapidly to the brain . |
| 29 | The author of a social study of Norwich reasoned that as ‘ Unemployment is partly a problem of education ’ , so ‘ a half-trained or untrained man can not adapt himself easily and rapidly to the endless changes of production under modern conditions . ’ |
| 30 | Between Lord Jim , moored almost in the shadow of Battersea Bridge , and the old wooden Thames barges , two hundred yards upriver and close to the rubbish disposal wharfs and the brewery , there was a great gulf fixed . |