Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 2 | This applies most readily to a partnership , for example , where the financial statements are concerned with showing wealth and the change in wealth over the period . |
| 3 | This analysis applies equally well to a star in the act of collapsing through its horizon : it grows redder and fades on a time-scale of |
| 4 | The twin handled grill pan pulls forward horizontally to a safety stop position or can be lifted out altogether . |
| 5 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 6 | This term usually refers either specifically to a movement in architecture which emphasizes a return to a popular façade based upon the design of mass commodities ( e.g. Jencks 1977 ; Venturi , Scott Brown and Izenours 1972 ) , or else to the more general movement towards pluralism and primitivism which followed the critique of modernism . |
| 7 | In fact it comes remarkably close to a conceptualisation of Susan Brownmiller 's famous assertion that ’ Rape is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear . ’ |
| 8 | Nothing in life is perfect , nor is it desirable that anything should be ; but this book comes as close to a perfect one-volume reference on the USSF as is humanly possible . |