Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity . |
| 2 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 3 | Apart from a visit to Cherbourg in the 1780s to see the new harbour works there his movements were confined entirely to a group of royal châteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris . |
| 4 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 5 | Borja had earlier responded positively to a letter of Nov. 24 from Fujimori proposing a " friendship , co-operation and integration " pact under the 1942 Rio de Janeiro protocol whose validity Ecuador refused to acknowledge . |
| 6 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 7 | All damage to school property must be reported immediately to a teacher or to the Deputy Headmaster . |
| 8 | Tork , Station Officer for Tel Aviv , always responded immediately to a summons from that office , cancelled whatever appointments he had . |
| 9 | Business had come almost to a standstill and the newspaper was adversely affected to an increasing degree . |
| 10 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 11 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 12 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 13 | However , there is a major problem with the model for real textual data : all references are between nodes mapped statically to a number of data pages with no scope for dynamic variation of unit size in the source and target objects . |
| 14 | Under the English Bill of Lading Act of 1855 , the rights under the contract of affreightment are transferred only to a person ‘ to whom the property in the goods passes upon or by reason of endorsement . ’ |
| 15 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 16 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |
| 17 | John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ . |
| 18 | A word in one language which is related etymologically to a word in another language , eg German Haus and English House . |
| 19 | This means that their outputs can be connected directly to a microprocessor data bus without having to resort to the use of a parallel interface device . |
| 20 | Brandmakers , whose ambitions were profiled here last week , has grown rapidly to a turnover of about £1.7m . |
| 21 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 22 | The dynamic insert might pick-up a certain amount of ‘ hum ’ and other electrical noise if the unit is operated close to a television set , mains wiring , etc . |
| 23 | Passive participles provide a rich vein of relevant instances ; it is a commonplace that these can be construed either as related directly to a verb , and hence in many cases referring to some assumed event , or as being adjectives expressing a state that have lost their verbal connexion . |
| 24 | Following a further five minute incubation , the contents of the cuvette were transferred directly to a culture flask containing 4 mls of SDM-79 or Cunningham 's medium . |
| 25 | He looked up into Grandson Richard 's huge face and , trying to make his voice as deep and slow as possible , said the only word any nome had said directly to a human in five thousand years . |
| 26 | This also has two tappings , but these will be connected internally to a heating coil — see drawing on page 49 . |
| 27 | Since so much capital has external sources , the bourgeoisie have not come through the same phase of saving and investment , as did their European counterparts , but have moved straight to a consumption stage . |
| 28 | The current in the electric fence surrounding that particular field had been turned off , since the bull was made fast to a stake by a thick rope . |
| 29 | Ambulatory manometry lasting approximately eight hours was performed with a Gaeltec ( Dunvegan , Isle of Skye IV55 8GU ) Manometric catheter with three miniaturised solid state transducers placed 5 cm apart in its distal 10 cm , connected proximally to a Synectics ( 215 Willow Road , Enfield , Middlesex ) multichannel microdigitrapper . |
| 30 | Among the Kimberley tribes the snakes are called Unguds , the word ‘ Ungud ’ being applied primarily to a life principle or a ‘ vital force ’ , and the natives believe that the Wandjina and Ungud paintings must be restored at the beginning of the wet season to ensure that rain will fall and fertilization proceed . |