Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A creature has a practical grasp of a domain if its behaviour is , within limits , successfully adjusted to the underlying constraints of the domain . |
| 2 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 3 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 4 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 5 | When you say , " Do you understand me ? " , you are really asking if you have successfully communicated to the other person what you had in mind . |
| 6 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 7 | Heath-Stubbs , whose own disturbed childhood had been marred by insensitivity to his progressive blindness , instinctively responded to the darker images of Keyes 's own imagination . |
| 8 | Expression of all the xenobiotic metabolising enzymes studied was almost wholly confined to the epithelial cells , whether in normal , adenoma or carcinoma samples , except that cytochrome P450 3A was also identified in mast cells and glutathione S-transferase γ was also present in chronic inflammatory cells . |
| 9 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 10 | SHOULD the worst come to the worst , John and Norma Major will at least be able to make a dignified departure from Downing Street . |
| 11 | We have been robust in dealing with planning applications in green belt areas , and we are wholly committed to the five objectives of the green belt . |
| 12 | France successfully objected to a proposed severing of air-links . |
| 13 | Haemoglobin , a scavenger of NO which is presumably confined to the extracellular space , also blocks the induction of LTP r141–143 , implying that NO ( or another haem-binding molecule , such as CO ) is released into the extracellular compartment . |
| 14 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 15 | Service of a notice of severance ( see Precedent 12 ) would appear to be effective to sever the joint tenancy if properly addressed to the other joint tenant and received at the property concerned . |
| 16 | By 1917 Unionists had more cause to fear than to rejoice , for the Labour movement had been greatly strengthened by the war in both its aspects ; increasing membership and growing militancy in the trades unions , growing confidence in the Labour party , the arrival of organized revolutionary extremism in the shop-stewards " movement all pointed to a grim future . |
| 17 | In all metric measures and their direct phi-based equivalents only the 25th , 50th and 75th percentiles are used , so that attention is only given to the central half of the grain population present . |
| 18 | A further risk is that the smaller Fellowships become so , " special and different " that they may lose the wider identification with all sufferers from addictive disease and they may therefore be less exposed to the common humility that is the essential basis for recovery . |
| 19 | Antiracists have rightly pointed to the limited nature of multiculturalism 's focus on prejudice and attitudes , and its strategy of prejudice reduction by teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ . |
| 20 | The revelations , which are seriously embarrassing Mr Gandhi 's Congress ( I ) Party , were accompanied by documents apparently leaked to the Indian press by Swedish sources . |
| 21 | It arises when an immune animal is suddenly exposed to a massive larval challenge , usually from a heavily contaminated field . |
| 22 | This proposes a Scottish parliament with very limited tax-raising powers , which would have responsibility for all matters now administratively devolved to the Scottish Office , and for ‘ industrial development ’ , though nobody knows just what this means . |
| 23 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 24 | The misrepresentation is not necessarily limited to an exact copy of the name or " get-up " . |
| 25 | Many bedrooms offer panoramic Sea Views , some offering Fourposter or Water beds with Jacuzzi baths , all furnished to a high standard , all are en suite and fully equipped with Colour TV ** radio , direct-dial telephone , trouser press , hairdryer , mini-safe and hospitality tray . |
| 26 | By the summer of 1419 all Normandy was his : the major walled towns of the duchy , Caen , Falaise , Cherbourg , and Rouen had all fallen to the English besiegers . |
| 27 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 28 | Paratenic hosts such as rodents or birds may ingest the infective eggs , and the L2 travel to their tissues where they remain until eaten by a dog when subsequent development is apparently confined to the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 29 | After an initial post-military phase of contraction , development was apparently confined to the central area in the later first or early second century , followed by settlement in the roadside suburbs during the second and third ; not until the third to fourth century did occupation reach its maximum extent of c. 20 ha ( 50 acres ) , extending north at least to St Andrew 's Church and west along the river , south-east to the Bearley Brook and south-west for up to 600 m ( 2000 ft ) . |
| 30 | There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide , all confined to the southern hemisphere . |