Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 2 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 3 | A worthy churchman more addicted to hunting than to academics . |
| 4 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 5 | RM1 , on the other hand , returns all possible word matches , but performs the search strictly left to right . |
| 6 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |
| 7 | Initially delivered to the RAAF it was sold in 1946 to the Tasmanian Aero Club then passed to South Australia Aerial Spraying in 1954 as a crop duster . |
| 8 | It makes use of the existence of a synthetic chemical closely related to glucose , 2-deoxyglucose , or 2-DG . |
| 9 | The nineteenth century work of Pavlov on the conditioned reflex generated vain hopes that psychology , and in particular learning , might be studied by a rigorous methodology closely allied to physiology . |
| 10 | If there was in fact any such material discrepancy or inconsistency it would have been the duty of counsel for the Crown to inform the defence of the fact , and indeed the learned trial judge expressly referred to Crown counsel 's duty in this respect . |
| 11 | Although the Secret Committee formally agreed to publication of Nazimov 's instructions , many contemporaries recorded the attempts of committee members to prevent it . |
| 12 | In winter more confined to coast than Herring and Lesser Black-back. 25–31 in. ( 64 79 cm . ) . |
| 13 | Such a definition also excludes approaches to modernity and modernism which focus upon an outlook or attitude usually restricted to elite sections of the population such as artists and planners ( for example Berman 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Young boy always used to muck about with |
| 15 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 16 | It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year . |
| 17 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |
| 18 | The left wing advanced a short distance beyond the Steenbeek rivulet and Langemarck , a village now reduced to rubble . |
| 19 | That reference immediately brought to mind Samson , who pulled the pillars down . |
| 20 | A court heard how the plan almost turned to disaster when , half way across the North Sea , the dinghy began filling with water . |
| 21 | Yet to go to the countryside where these impressions were formed , to be able to see what he saw , almost unchanged , two centuries later ; is to experience his poetry vividly brought to life . |
| 22 | Thus in the theoretical study of language the deference previously accorded to analysis and explanation by the informed observer has been questioned in favour of an uncommitted approach to enquiry , without preconception and without privilege , into the ways in which participants negotiate their own conditions for achieving their purposes . |
| 23 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 24 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 25 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 26 | This could be done by charging on the basis of marginal supply cost for water ( if feasible ) and redistributing income , to allow people to allocate their income between water and other goods on the basis of market prices , or charging on a basis more related to income than to use ( e.g. based upon property valuations ) . |
| 27 | Azaña promptly returned to power at the head of a purely Republican government , the Socialists preferring to shun cabinet responsibility . |
| 28 | Hares ( but not rabbits ) are particularly vulnerable to paraquat , a herbicide often applied to stubble in the autumn so that it can be easily burned . |
| 29 | Stokesley , indeed , possessing neither trade nor manufacturers , has no appearance of bustle or business , and is a place well adapted to retirement . ’ |
| 30 | The research phase of the Programme was completed during 1985 , and attention then turned to dissemination and debate of the findings . |