Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't need to be more famous , ’ he said last week after returning to a charmingly comfortable home converted from farm buildings some 15 miles to the north-west of Newcastle . |
| 2 | When a variable is used for inputting , the effect is the same as that of inputting to a completely new variable , and then assigning to the original one . |
| 3 | We first discussed the possibility of regressing to a very early period in her current life . |
| 4 | The private suburb gave to its inhabitants two important things : a sense of belonging to a fairly sympathetic world and an outlet for idealistic and creative instincts . |
| 5 | ‘ It provides a sense of belonging to a fairly sympathetic world , and an opportunity for its occupants to make out of that world something personal to themselves . ’ |
| 6 | It can also improve the possibility of moving to a more desirable job with another employer or in a different geographic area . |
| 7 | The continuing problems of Northern Ireland demonstrate the futility of responding to a deeply ingrained political problem with a law-and-order response . |
| 8 | On the other hand , being faced with visual novelties was a useful jolt to artistic complacency and the habit many of us get into of working to a well tried formula . |
| 9 | When examining the role of a specific , unitary affinity with regard to a more general affinity , the stylistic comparisons at the more specific level are especially important . |
| 10 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 11 | I saw no point in lying to an already acerbic-looking policeman , and agreed that it was . |
| 12 | The cost of running SYMAP is low since standard peripherals are used , so it makes sense to use it as an aid to map design before proceeding to a more elaborate plotter mapping package such as GIMMS . |
| 13 | Since they are increasingly owner-occupiers , they may find substantial financial as well as emotional costs in moving to a more suitable home . |
| 14 | Worswick is anxious , however , that ‘ in moving to a more commercial way of operating , we should retain our underlying scientific strengths ’ . |
| 15 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |
| 16 | Women and children suffered from underfeeding to a much greater extent than men . |
| 17 | Frequently congregations made free gilts to their ministers but as these were often wealthy congregations which could also afford a high salary the bonus served as icing to an already rich cake : Joseph Parker , for example , got £1,000 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ministry and John Clifford was given a round-the-world trip when his health failed in 1897 . |
| 18 | Because the discussion of these criteria is associated with a fresh and more promising period in the history of memory research , and also symbolizes the point in my own research trajectory at which I switched from working on imprinting to an even simpler form of learning in the young chick , they can appropriately form the starting-point for the next chapter . |
| 19 | Since IBM is also downsizing the basic building block for its MVS mainframes with a view to moving to a moderately parallel mainframe architecture , it seems likely that the planned processor-Taligent combination would also succeed the CMOS ES/9000 chip that the company plans to make the basis of its future parallel mainframes over the next couple of years . |
| 20 | Since IBM is also downsizing the basic building block for its MVS mainframes with a view to moving to a moderately parallel mainframe architecture , it seems likely that the planned processor-Taligent combination would also succeed the CMOS ES/9000 chip that the company plans to make the basis of its future parallel mainframes over the next couple of years . |
| 21 | This case study suggests that by moving to a more open formula system rather than the previous ‘ bidding ’ system , the school is adopting a more rational approach . |
| 22 | Indeed , only by holding to a very diffuse and very general understanding of social theory is it possible to see many of these views and their exponents as representatives of the same general theoretical approach . |
| 23 | Another is to reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject , either by shifting to a more suitable setting or by moving in to a bigger close-up so that the dark background is reduced in size . |
| 24 | The fourth point , the idea that science is intrinsically masculine , can be sustained only by clinging to an irredeemably narrow conception of science and scientific thinking . |