Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The antero-posterior axis of the frog egg more or less corresponds to the animal-vegetal axis . |
| 3 | It is a weakness in Dunn 's useful book Baptism in the Holy Spirit that he sweeps aside these dozen or so references to the Spirit in the first three chapters of Luke and insists that the kingdom did not come until the baptism of Jesus . |
| 4 | ‘ It is also difficult at the moment to know whether in the heat of a race the horse actually feels the whip or merely reacts to the noise made by it . |
| 5 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 6 | The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding . |
| 7 | Its practical bearing follows from these aims ; for by constructing concepts , forms of argument and criteria of evidence which attain some degree of objectivity and universality , political sociology , to the extent that it is diffused through society , has an effect on ideologies and on political consciousness generally , and so contributes to the shaping of political action . |
| 8 | The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ . |
| 9 | Such an approach involves less intensive data collection and generally conforms to the managerial form of the organization ( see figure 4.3 ) . |
| 10 | , intake operator , is a larger than life character and is extremely popular around the maltings , which is just as well when you see his size ! usually takes the barley samples and generally attends to the drivers . |
| 11 | This all seems rather difficult to do when arranging a funeral or cremation , and anyway adds to the practical load . |
| 12 | Using these means the enclosed volume may be declared to contain material and thus conforms to the conditions necessary for the definition of a solid . |
| 13 | Return to pan and stir over a low heat until it thickens and just comes to the boil . |
| 14 | The renegade comes slinking in and simperingly confides to the general his ability to lead his security forces to Sister Chiang . |
| 15 | The white dust often found on the casing of salami is bacterial and usually contributes to the flavour of the sausage . |
| 16 | Normally , when there is a single mother cat , each kitten is the ‘ owner ’ of its own personal nipple and always returns to the same nipple every time it feeds . |
| 17 | Church Farm has been tenanted ever since , and from Clives , through marriages to the Earls of Powis , it came and still belongs to the Earls of Plymouth . |
| 18 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 19 | The treponeme , once in the tissues , multiplies locally and also travels to the nearby lymph nodes , where further division and multiplication takes place . |
| 20 | The penicillin-producing mold grows naturally on the herb 's leaves and also adds to the antibiotic effect of the plant . |
| 21 | Economists and others who have considered the human capital notion over the years can be divided into two groups : those who have argued that human beings increase national wealth ; and those who went a step further to argue that improving the quality of human beings through health , education and other services increases their productivity as labourers and hence adds to the national wealth . |
| 22 | Powered by an overshot iron waterwheel , the mill ceased commercial operation in 1927 and now belongs to the Sussex Trust for Nature Conservation . |
| 23 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 24 | The employee 's contribution is therefore £1,284.40 and roughly equates to the sum of the Class 2 and Class 4 contributions paid by a self employed person on the same income . |
| 25 | The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is . |
| 26 | Although Bede discusses the theory of the ‘ four ages ’ and even refers to the alternative concept of the ‘ six ages ’ , he makes no mention of the ‘ seven ages ’ later described by Shakespeare . |
| 27 | It not only covered ships passing to and fro through the Strait , but also included reports of Argentine air strikes , naval activity , including the sinking of the Belgrano , and even references to the British helicopter that had landed on the coast of the Magellan Strait almost opposite Punta Arenas , and had been destroyed by its pilot . |
| 28 | Reserve police in this part of Belfast correctly point out that uncertainty over their contract is only one form of insecurity , and simply adds to the pressure of working in West Belfast ( FN 9/10/87 , p. 25 ) . |
| 29 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 30 | The best example of that type of person is the liberal who professes to be anti-war and anti-violence and then goes to the boxing matches or watches the football game and screams his head off . |