Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work was highly differentiated according to sex . |
| 2 | Item 4 of the same Schedule specifies the ‘ place where the property is situated ’ for an appeal where there is a dispute over a valuation , but this statement is only intended to apply to property within the UK — the authorities can not be compelled to travel to Portugal to hear the appeal ! |
| 3 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 4 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 5 | Alan had obviously expected to return to university alone , once the fuss was over . |
| 6 | From this has come the immense development of Justice and Peace Commissions , both in Rome and throughout the Catholic world , which have greatly helped bring to fruition a whole new dimension of church life , a social activism concerned with the service of the poor , of economic justice and of genuine peace ( Paul VI later declared that ‘ Development is the new name for Peace ’ ) . |
| 7 | Now ‘ Bordah ’ , though so pronounced refers to Border , one of South Africa 's smallest sports provinces , where I come from , on the south-eastern coast , covering the area of the Cape Province 's border with Natal . |
| 8 | The agent may be better off claiming times are bad when they are not , if wages are thereby greatly reduced compared to employment and output , so raising the firm 's net earnings and the agent 's earnings . |
| 9 | Therefore , long-term measures to promote sales are not feasible , and the manufacturer would be better advised to look to product improvement as part of long-term strategy . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , they stressed that any sampling design should be rigorously stratified according to site conditions and the stage of regeneration of the forest , and that measurements of parameters such as stand height , basal area and tree density in the areas around plots should also be taken . |
| 11 | But her mum refused to hand over a penny — and Chris 's parents finally decided to go to court for the cash . |
| 12 | A few crew and individuals had already refused to go to war . |
| 13 | Remembering that philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century had already assimilated thought to perception , this is not surprising . |
| 14 | And and er Katie was off the day before with something and just managed to get to school that day . |
| 15 | Rather , it is an expression of the rights and liabilities generally held to attach to ownership : more exactly , the right subject to the general law to determine whether and how the assets and resources owned will be used , and the liability in certain circumstances to answer for the consequences of that use . |
| 16 | Henceforward , population would be the determining factor ( although the number of voters in a constituency still varied according to population density , from 80,000 people per constituency in the larger towns to 25,000 in the extreme south ) . |
| 17 | These groups were then further sub-divided according to car ownership , important both in the access it allowed to jobs and services and in the flexibility it offered to migrants in the initial residential search process . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've always preferred to starve to death on one peanut , you mean ? ’ |
| 19 | Although the USA has always tended to look to education to solve its national problems , education in the UK has traditionally been viewed more as a benefit to the individual . |
| 20 | Over the past five months , despite everything that has gone wrong with his adventure in Kuwait , he has calmly refused to bow to pressure , whether political , economic or military . |
| 21 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 22 | This does not mean , however , that the Commissioner is always determined to go to court . |
| 23 | Here tasks are less clearly differentiated according to rank ; men in all three grades would , for example , conduct routine river sampling . |
| 24 | Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience . |
| 25 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 26 | Some of the other writers in this book , and a number of other researchers are also seen to contribute to knowledge in this area . |
| 27 | For this reason , the patients were also stratified according to stone free intervals of > , or < , two years and biased randomisation performed as described above . |
| 28 | In immune deficient states Cryptosporidium is also found attached to crypt epithelium within the crypt lumen , indicating differences in the extent of colonisation of the mucosal surface in the two conditions . |
| 29 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 30 | It is certainly one of the most misunderstood terms , and therefore also guaranteed to lead to disagreement , even ( or perhaps especially ) among the so-called experts . |