Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 2 | It is perhaps interesting to note that , despite the urgency of the situation , the convention that the accident investigation authority of one State communicates with the accident investigation authority of another State and the airworthiness authority of one State communicates with the airworthiness authority of another State was adhered to in the alerting procedure . |
| 3 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 4 | In response to this threat , Irokawa argues , the ruling classes moved rapidly to reinforce the conventional norms still adhered to by the vast majority of the people , but in a way which removed any spontaneous content and value . |
| 5 | Exactly this point was made by the Cabinet Committee of the Leeds Liberal Federation in 1921 , and adhered to throughout the 1920s . |
| 6 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 8 | Ramsay found the Regent Douglas installed in Edinburgh Castle , with a host of lords and chiefs , including no fewer than six earls , a most illustrious company , waiting there while their forces massed and were added to on the adjacent Burgh Muir . |
| 9 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 10 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 11 | It gave the room an artificially cosy feel , which was added to by the open fireplace and the array of expensive leather furniture that dotted the floor , spread out on thick carpet as dark as wet concrete . |
| 12 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 13 | This picture is added to in the next chapter where we examine the informal relations that exist within organisations , and in Chapter 6 where we examine power . |
| 14 | Erm coming in from er on the A six one two from , er we 've come to over the level crossing there . |
| 15 | The reality of this picture of vibrant , ‘ grass roots ’ capitalist development in the Third World is attested to by the abundant evidence of rapidly rising commercialisation and the resulting social differentiation ( especially in the rural areas of Asia and Africa ) , coupled with the relative expansion of wage-labour at the expense of family and self-employment , including feudal-type tenurial relationships . |
| 16 | This tends to be the concern in Great Britain , as attested to by the public response to the Policy Studies Institute study of the Metropolitan Police ( Policy Studies Institute 1983a , b ; for a similar and earlier example , see Holdaway 1977 ) . |
| 17 | The UUAC was looked to as the natural vehicle for action . |
| 18 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 19 | Their own wounded could be attended to at the nearby village of Eckford , and then disappear into these their own Border hills . |
| 20 | In certain circumstances it may become necessary to seek waivers from the Law Society , as for instance : ( 1 ) where the new office is no more than a consulting room open for restricted periods , when a waiver would normally be granted provided ( a ) the opening hours are sufficiently advertised ; ( b ) during those hours there is always in attendance a person duly qualified to manage or supervise the office and that all correspondence is seen by a partner of the firm ; and ( c ) the business of the consultancy is accounted for centrally and not as a separate business ; or ( 2 ) where the new office is an annexe ( whether housing a separate department or otherwise ) near to the main office , when a waiver could be expected to be granted if ( a ) a common switchboard is used for both main office and annexe ; ( b ) accounts are centralised ; ( c ) correspondence is attended to in the main office ; and ( d ) clients are asked to address correspondence to the main office . |
| 21 | The Bank has been written to on the 5th February 1993 seeking a meeting for this purpose . |
| 22 | Ramcom 's existing cards can already be read by radio thanks to a built-in transceiver , but the new In-Charge cards can also be written to in the same way . |
| 23 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 24 | ‘ Among those I have talked to over the past years , ’ he said , ‘ I have found none who believed that Libya alone paid for , planned and carried out the crime — exactly none . ’ |
| 25 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 26 | You 're not being talked to by the mainstream now , but by us who you grew up with . |
| 27 | Of the other two big continental powers , Germany is busy absorbing the former East German army and cutting the new all-German force to a promised limit of 370,000 men , as agreed to in the European conventional arms-control treaty in Paris last November . |
| 28 | ‘ The Black Sea at 24C in the summer is twice what belugas are used to in the Arctic . |
| 29 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |
| 30 | the most expedient course to consult the architect who had already been employed to prepare plans for the particular office now to be built , and who from his official position in connexion with the Board of Works might be resorted to with the least invidiousness to the professional public . |