Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tories are not much given to Freudian analysis , but one minister said , the party remained psychotic after the trauma of three years ago . |
| 6 | Eamonn McCann described him as a ‘ passionate Republican , much given to violent rhetoric ’ . |
| 7 | The effects of Scottish resistance were not , however , only confined to literary creation . |
| 8 | How suitable , as a preparation for teaching in secondary school , is a degree course in which the student 's reading is almost entirely confined to imaginative literature and which entails no systematic study of any other register in the foreign language … |
| 9 | Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time . |
| 10 | Hand contact surfaces : This is one area of disinfection not necessarily confined to high risk zones especially in catering . |
| 11 | Does not the Secretary of State understand that it is precisely because the TGWU is so committed to effective training and the future expansion of British industry that it is not prepared to give credence to the Government 's sham arrangements ? |
| 12 | The landscape , as part of a geologically young mountain region with steep slopes , is naturally predisposed to mass movement . |
| 13 | The cognitive factors which are significantly related to sign performance in hearing signers are reasoning , cloze and embedded figures , with the last one being most highly related to sign-to-English translation . |
| 14 | Sound-broadcasting is a particular skill , not necessarily related to literary ability though impossible without it . |
| 15 | One of the techniques to be tried out in the study is the value of using grid square mapping of the attractions in the urban areas , a technique hitherto applied to extensive resource assessment . |
| 16 | But such innovations were only applied to certain traffic flows , and the old order of vacuum-braked or unfitted wagons , sprawling marshalling yards and generally lavish siding provision was allowed to linger on . |
| 17 | There are also great individual differences between normal infants which are not always obviously related to maturational age . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the North Western Health Board said the warning only related to Russian vodka brands bought outside the normal distribution channels . |
| 19 | The lowest , or process , level , is directly and ( usually ) obviously connected to perceived reality . |
| 20 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 21 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 22 | We have got so used to untold wrath and destruction , but now God again brings water gushing from the rock , and the people are saved . |
| 23 | Vietnam and the UK had signed an agreement in principle on forced repatriation on Oct. 29 , 1991 [ see p. 38531 ] , but Vietnam had at that time only agreed to immediate repatriation of new arrivals and so-called " double-backers " — people who had fled to the colony a second time . |
| 24 | Market socialism has also looked attractive to some socialists in the West , as a possible respecification of socialism worth struggling for in capitalist countries whose proletariats are now long used to high living standards and extensive consumer choice . |
| 25 | There are changes in relations of production , too , most importantly , the first significant encroachment on music production resources by the working-class young , and accompanying this is the opening up of a new youth market , which is structurally less tied to established class roles than older generations . |
| 26 | Worsening economic conditions , the growth of the new socialist and trade-union movements , together with the perceived failure of traditional programmes of philanthropy , all contributed to widespread alarm in official circles about the immorality of the unrespectable poor , or ‘ the residuum ’ . |
| 27 | It had not been hard to predict that the Caribbean style of attacking play would be greatly suited to one-day cricket . |
| 28 | And as you would expect in a town of enterprise , some of these buildings have been sensibly adapted to modern use . |
| 29 | The factor which accounts for the bulk of the variance in responses ( 27 per cent ) is composed of attitudes towards the process of SSE , with its product , the bringing about of changes in schools , being only weakly correlated , suggesting that teachers simply do not see evaluation as necessarily linked to subsequent action . |
| 30 | All conventional polyphonic forms are well suited to serial composition , especially as the series is naturally suited to horizontal writing . |