Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All the claims from Strathclyde and other offices will be properly decided according to the previous arrangements . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Government 's immediate choice this week was hardly calculated to appeal to the prime minister . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 12 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The ‘ self ’ objectified in the object will be differentially constructed according to the cosmological context . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The postholder is also required to bring to the immediate attention of the Divisional Officer matters of a more complex and demanding nature . |
| 18 | An initiative was now expected to amend to the relevant Article 18 of the federal constitution . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The data were then grouped according to the mean value . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The results are then plotted according to the Flory equation where is the ratio of the molar volume of the repeating unit in the chain to that of the diluent , and φ 1 , is the volume fraction of the diluent . |
| 25 | In its turn , such an act provoked French retaliation : the duchy of Aquitaine was again declared confiscate to the French crown , and an army was sent to take possession . |
| 26 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 27 | For his supporters , the resignation was an embarrassing puzzle : why had he resigned so soon after accepting the presidency , as a result of a quarrel with a " system " that he had largely created , over constitutional principles whose significance he had never bothered to explain to the French people ? |
| 28 | Grassroots power now passed to ‘ anti-fascist ’ committees , variously constituted according to the local balance of left-wing allegiance . |