Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skip shows us in the book how his aspirations for the boat decrease and how newcomers to the boat had to get used to the crew 's relaxed attitude . |
| 2 | What remains a problem is to explain why exposure to the context alone given after exposure to the stimulus can be quite without influence on the magnitude of latent inhibition ( Hall and Minor 1984 ) and why pre-exposure to the context should actually enhance the magnitude of the effect ( Hall and Channell 1985c ) . |
| 3 | Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed . |
| 4 | Table 3.1 reveals that the OR was not restored after the retention interval when exposure to the test context filled the interval — habituation of the specific response to the light must therefore have survived the retention interval . |
| 5 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 6 | He felt that such a clause would be unreasonable , since the ship was likely to break down in circumstances where return to the yard would be impracticable . |
| 7 | In a society where service to the state was a paramount requirement , the close association of political parties with wealthy financiers and industrialists was a serious liability . |
| 8 | Younger men sometimes criss-crossed the frontiers of Carolingian regna : middle-age brought a tendency to settle down in the regnum where closeness to the king ( modern German historians have coined the useful term Königsnähe ) had brought greatest rewards . |
| 9 | He says this is where newcomers to the business can have difficulties , and that one needs to be fairly robust to cope with the pressure . |
| 10 | What remains a problem is to explain why exposure to the context alone given after exposure to the stimulus can be quite without influence on the magnitude of latent inhibition ( Hall and Minor 1984 ) and why pre-exposure to the context should actually enhance the magnitude of the effect ( Hall and Channell 1985c ) . |
| 11 | By referring to ‘ any proceedings brought because of an alleged odour nuisance ’ it is clear that the Department of Environment did not intend to restrict the occasions when adherence to the code of practice may , at the discretion of the court be a relevant consideration . |