Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice . |
| 2 | If we turn first to the best-known Tudor textbook , the so-called ‘ Royal Grammar ’ originally produced by Lily and Colet for St Paul 's School , but becoming virtually ubiquitous after a proclamation by Edward VI in 1548 ordering its use in all grammar schools — it was undoubtedly used by Shakespeare — we find that a pronoun is said to be ‘ a parte of speeche , much lyke to a noune , whyche is used in shewyng or rehersyng ’ . |
| 3 | Many landlords , usually those who own property as an investment , only let to a company rather than to an individual to avoid the tenant 's security of tenure offered by the Rent Acts . |
| 4 | This offence carries the right to jury trial , and the judge declined to usurp the jury 's role by declaring that future conduct by the Society would necessarily amount to an offence . |
| 5 | The trees suddenly storm to a stop , in a hush |
| 6 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 7 | Organic meat needs experienced butchery and not a quick swipe with the band saw before being instantly packaged — so go to a butcher who buys his meat on the hoof from a farmer who is n't into organics just for the sake of profit . |
| 8 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 9 | Although these activities only relate to a fraction of the total number of UK library authorities , it may be hoped that they foreshadow a revival of interest in an essential and much neglected component of the book provision process . |
| 10 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 11 | Just listen to a copper sit there and talk rubbish for a few minutes . |
| 12 | I felt relieved in the same huge way as when you 've been desperate to pee and you finally get to a loo … |
| 13 | Just get to a shape you feel happy with , ’ he says . |
| 14 | ‘ No , shit , you just get to a point in your life where you want to make sure that everything is going to be OK . |
| 15 | Under the New South Wales legislation , an assertion of consent would generally amount to a denial that injury was inflicted with intent to have sexual intercourse . |
| 16 | Where an odour has multi-sources this problem is exacerbated especially when it is created by two or more chemicals coming together neither of which individually amount to a nuisance . |
| 17 | While the reform of the welfare state has not attracted the same consistent media attention as other issues , the changes made in the scope of welfare provision since 1979 nevertheless amount to a mini-revolution , and have played a part in creating an underclass . |
| 18 | Although the remedies available may be less extensive , a statement made quite innocently can nevertheless amount to a misrepresentation , as in Leaf v. International Galleries ( 1950 C.A. ) where the sellers incorrectly stated that a painting was by Constable , a statement which they genuinely believed . |
| 19 | So she goes to the hospital and they go right take your clothes off and put the gown on Get out , man , just , just go to a clinic . |
| 20 | And if these explorations conclusively point to an amalgamation with the T & g or any other union , then so be it . |
| 21 | He said that the increasing number of pressure groups in other EC countries ( which at the moment have fewer groups than the UK ) would influence both public and political opinion and thus contribute to a situation in which implementation and enforcement of EC environmental legislation would improve . |
| 22 | Depression may result from an upbringing which induced feelings of insecurity , inadequacy or false guilt which have dogged the young adult 's steps until they finally come to a head during the crisis of midlife . |
| 23 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 24 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 25 | It is possible to do away with demons and still cling to a belief in the Devil , but once the Devil is denied then ipso facto so are the demon hordes . |
| 26 | Many American think-tanks , such as the Washington-based Institute for International Economics , still cling to an aura of academic detachment . |
| 27 | This is not the way the workers usually speak to a queen bee . |
| 28 | Gradually drop to a factor 10 or 8 and then 6 as your tan develops throughout your holiday . |
| 29 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 30 | The hive-up will not usually amount to a distribution ( see s209(4) , ( 5 ) , ( 7 ) TA 1988 ) . |