Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is felt that the conventional conveyancing procedure should be adhered to for the reasons stated in Chapter 3 . |
| 2 | Note that the actual spacing of the piano chords is not adhered to in the arrangement . |
| 3 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 4 | At the slightest sign of originality in approach or technique a director might well be regarded as a menace and any departure from the hoary formula adhered to by the executives could be considered highly presumptuous . |
| 5 | And with the mind , even of humans , behaving in a habituated , instinctive fashion , many an insightful perception or suggestion is rejected out of hand by the deeply engrained , yet erroneous , patterns adhered to by the majority . |
| 6 | The closing dates were strictly adhered to by the Office of Works . |
| 7 | Notations are made on the card as to the reasons for blacklisting , and any instructions such as ‘ refer to manager ’ , ‘ do not accept ’ or ‘ undesirable ’ should be carefully adhered to by the staff . |
| 8 | This may be dealt with in some way in the contract in that a certain notice period may have been specified and this may have been adhered to by the parties . |
| 9 | However , influenced by the fact that the deterrence policy is firmly adhered to by the governments of the superpowers and has some political acceptability , and that the traditional doctrine of the laws of war did not apply to preparation for war , his eventual conclusion is that it would be difficult to state that any measures short of use are illegal . |
| 10 | The school librarian or teacher is not therefore dealing with a traditional cataloguing and indexing task whereby one system is adhered to within the information retrieval system , as in a card catalogue . |
| 11 | He finds it sad that the USM and fund markets have not developed in the way that they were expected to at the outset . |
| 12 | Other such clues may have gone unnoticed by the researcher , though responded to by the subjects . |
| 13 | This page enables you to indicate which versions of which modules are likely to be involved in the problem or suggestion responded to by the SSR . |
| 14 | Is a human being and his idea-thinking process like a healthy tree in that there is the stable main trunk with subsidiary branches that grow slowly and are added to through the years ? |
| 15 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 16 | In this approach , each participant in a discourse has a presupposition pool and his pool is added to as the discourse proceeds . |
| 17 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 18 | This legacy has been added to down the years , and continues to develop . |
| 19 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 20 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 21 | Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings . |
| 22 | The fissures between the employers ( large and small ) , the self-employed , and the rentiers , and between these categories and the ‘ salariat ’ of employed professional , managerial and technical workers , have been added to by the fissure between the private sector business salariat and the more newly expanding public sector salariat , so that the notion of the ‘ middle class ’ has virtually reached bursting point . |
| 23 | He 'll never forgive her for the life she has spent and she wo n't let him see what she 's come to at the end of it ! |
| 24 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 25 | Ordered , That , if the Welsh Development Agency Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House , further proceedings on the Bill shall stand postponed and that as soon as the proceedings on any Resolution come to by the House on Welsh Development Agency Bill [ Money ] have been concluded , this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill . |
| 26 | Ordered , That , if the Social Security ( Mortgage Interest Payments ) Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House , further proceedings on the Bill shall stand postponed and that as soon as any proceedings on any Resolution come to by the House on Social Security ( Mortgage Interest Payments ) Bill [ Money ] have been concluded , this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee on the Bill . |
| 27 | That Johnson had so much social significance as a black man challenging white oppression , albeit in a symbolic way , was attested to by the scenes following his dismissal of Burns and after his defence against the revered bastion of white pride , Jim Jeffries . |
| 28 | That this must be the explanation for Kammerer 's disturbing results is attested to by the discovery of a wild midwife toad with rudimentary nuptial pads as much as two years before Kammerer took his own life . |
| 29 | When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved . |
| 30 | The multiplication of agencies as a means to greater bureaucratic efficiency may be objected to on the grounds that one of the major obstacles to the successful implementation of government programmes has been found to be the existence of numerous competing administrative bodies which so many programmes seem to involve because of overlapping policy fields and jurisdictions ( Gunn 1978 ) . |