Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when neither the French army nor fiscal arrangements to meet its needs had been sufficiently developed to respond to a new military situation , the only possible response was none the less to call traditional forces together to form an army with which to intercept and , it was hoped , to defeat the English . |
| 2 | ‘ Muni was and is sociologically-minded , ’ said the press-book , and ‘ he had long wished to bring to the American people the picture of these primitive people who worked hard and who died that the wheels of industry might not be stilled ’ . |
| 3 | Although policies obviously varied according to the occupational structure and size of the company ( Hannah 1986 ) , large organizations were considered more likely to instigate rigid retirement policies than were small ones ( Acton Society Trust 1960 ) . |
| 4 | Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered . |
| 5 | All the claims from Strathclyde and other offices will be properly decided according to the previous arrangements . |
| 6 | They have , so far as is possible , wished to interpret the texts within a context of earlier teaching and pre-conciliar practice , against which the Council was , to a considerable extent , deliberately reacting ; yet , as the texts even as finally formulated remain to a considerable extent a jumble deriving from different hands and including material composed substantially before the Council began , there is much in them to countenance such a viewpoint . |
| 7 | However , the Bernese Alps ‘ range ’ is generally understood to refer to the entire mountain range lying between the so-called Interlaken Valley to the north and the Rhône Valley to the south . |
| 8 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 9 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 10 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 11 | The Government 's immediate choice this week was hardly calculated to appeal to the prime minister . |
| 12 | What is important is that cells in area MT of monkey always responded according to the illusory direction of movement of the chevron perceived by a human observer rather than to the physical direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 13 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 14 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 15 | Oath-helpers were still employed to swear to the good character of the accused ; but everywhere evidence as to the facts of the case grew more significant . |
| 16 | There is a wide variety of day and night-time entertainments which are all specially devised to appeal to a broad cross-section of holiday makers . |
| 17 | The ‘ self ’ objectified in the object will be differentially constructed according to the cosmological context . |
| 18 | This was not only a matter of pride but was also done to conform to the old City by-law which called for the cleansing of pavements by 3 p.m. each day . |
| 19 | We need to understand the extent to which oppositional practices have , wittingly or unwittingly , shared the assumptions of the dominant state-led strategies that have also attempted to respond to the black presence in British education and society . |
| 20 | The postholder is also required to bring to the immediate attention of the Divisional Officer matters of a more complex and demanding nature . |
| 21 | An initiative was now expected to amend to the relevant Article 18 of the federal constitution . |
| 22 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 23 | So it , it 's as you say it 's a very tough , hard life and in order to survive , people really do need the help of other people and that 's why you 've really got to conform to a large extent in the society and you have n't got a lot of choice about erm you know wh what you 'd like to especially if you 're , if you 're young and female and not much men not if you want to get any wives that is . |
| 24 | The intrusive authorial voice itself is often used to point to the formal conventions of the novel , and thus to prevent a naive confusion of literature with life . |
| 25 | Some modern wall lights are now supplied wired to a special plug which is designed to be inserted into a matching wall socket — a combination known as a luminaire support coupler . |
| 26 | Reluctantly , and stressing this was only his " personal " opinion , nothing to do with the British government , the British ambassador replied that a crackdown could n't work , that is the Shah was now forced to withdraw to a naval base , he would soon have to leave altogether anyway , but that if he did now leave Iran , the chances of his coming back were slight . |
| 27 | One even refused to respond to an urgent call from a nurse two days before Mrs Craig died . |
| 28 | The data were then grouped according to the mean value . |
| 29 | In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus . |
| 30 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |