Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although largely confined to salt water in Sussex , there are sufficient inland records to suggest that one or two mergansers can be found on inland waters every winter . |
| 2 | Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender . |
| 3 | Yet a civilization existed between 1880 and 1945 , reaching its greatest coherence and strength just before 1914 , which was European in its origins although already transplanted to North and South America and the British white colonies and although unevenly spread among European countries themselves . |
| 4 | Top notes are , however , very exciting if not used to excess ! |
| 5 | He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies . |
| 6 | They co-authored three papers together in 1985 — their first work together though not related to test-tube fusion . |
| 7 | The Dictionary was available in northern Spain , though not used to advantage by the Spaniards . |
| 8 | This contains an unfortunate value judgement , not just upon the Christianity that precedes the reference , but on the whole concept of locality as somehow opposed to cosmopolitanism . |
| 9 | Pheasant — when not hung to destruction — is not a strong-tasting bird and feeds four people surprisingly well , which makes it good value . |
| 10 | Although dialogue can be deftly used in scenes within the French and Anglo-Norman fabliaux , none of those fabliaux as a whole seems as well suited to performance as this . |
| 11 | His harrowing journey of realisation , acceptance , communication ( through head-tapped morse code ) and an eventual blow-job from a sympathetic nurse is as strong an anti-war statement as yet committed to celluloid . |