Example sentences of "[vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always hankered to be tall and fair , like Riborg . |
| 2 | The distinctive nature of the ends is reinforced by the fact that the occupants are often physically con fined to the particular area for the whole of the football match . |
| 3 | Because women are largely con fined to jobs with low status and power , they will be relatively less able to engage in serious forms of white-collar and corporate crime . |
| 4 | These conditions typically exist in garage servicing , though they are by no means con fined to it . |
| 5 | These included not only the psychiatric cases but also those suffering from tuberculosis ( nineteen patients in 1945 ) and others con fined to hospital for long periods . |
| 6 | The existence of surplus labour is not con fined to capitalism . |
| 7 | I believe that the Christian faith provides us with a unique perspective on matters of political economy which is not con fined to issues of personal honesty and motivation , but which is also related to the basic institutions and goals of our societies . |
| 8 | Theorists of the ‘ regulation ’ school , such as Aglietta ( 1979 ) , regard Fordism as something which will increasingly be con fined to the less developed industries , themselves tending to be located within less developed areas of the world economy , as capitalism becomes ever more institutionalized . |
| 9 | Linda had always passed the time of day with her when Doris had been able to get out and about , but now the old woman was con fined to her house with arthritis . |
| 10 | The bereaved have always wished to ‘ remember ’ their dead , in the literal sense of reconstituting form and feature ; an integral part of this process has been to visualise the place of death and burial and , if possible , to visit it . |
| 11 | If maintained schools failed ( and fail ) to scale those commanding heights it is because they have not wished to . |
| 12 | The French kings were as yet too weak to use the arrière-ban , if they had wished to , save in quite exceptional circumstances , as in 1124 . |
| 13 | It was only a week since , in this very room , she had wished to be rid of Gareth Davis ; now he was dead . |
| 14 | They have secretly wished to be lovers for years but the consummation of their affair is a recent event . |
| 15 | The king extracted grants of subsidies only with difficulty and was forced to concede more than he would have wished to both clergy and laity in return . |
| 16 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I 've never wished to be captured , ’ she returned bluntly . |
| 18 | It was impossible for Sally-Anne to obey even if she had wished to . |
| 19 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 20 | Now at this stage er it is the plaintiff 's case that Mr er considered that this caused major financial problems , because the property at Frinton was simply not one that was open to him to offer as security , it was clear that the bank would now as he saw it , on the deal that he understood that he 'd struck and he knew that without the bank 's help he would not be able to er proceed with this purchase and operate he business in the way he had wished to . |
| 21 | Although she loved her work , never before had she wished to be on duty on a day off . |
| 22 | Double-clicking on a graph makes it appear full-screen , where it can be embellished to your heart 's content using the menu system |
| 23 | AN ADDITIONAL series of allegations that Serious Crime Squad detectives in the West Midlands Police fabricated confessions were not disclosed to the public and the Police Complaints Authority for more than a year . |
| 24 | A judge of an inferior court , in order to entitle himself to this immunity , must , however , show that in reality , or at any rate upon the facts disclosed to him , he had jurisdiction in the matter in question . |
| 25 | The move will be disclosed to Karpov when the game resumes tomorrow afternoon . |
| 26 | The withdrawal of derogations was disclosed to Parliament by Junior Minister Colin Moynihan on 20 January the following year . |
| 27 | For a child too young to make an informed request the information may be disclosed to a parent on his behalf . |
| 28 | Any information which is relevant may have to be disclosed to the parties in respect of any court case . |
| 29 | Under cartel agreements , the identity and properties both of Sontochin and of Resochin had been disclosed to the Winthrop Chemical Company . |
| 30 | Amongst those detained was a Belgian Member of the European Parliament who had earlier disclosed to the newspapers plans for a 3 km-wide ‘ waste island ’ off Zeebrugge . |