Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 2 | Each FOND refers to the members of a family that are present within a file , be it the System or a Font/DA Mover file — also called a Suitcase . |
| 3 | Members of the research and development department , put under the massive strain of trying to turn production over from rock slippers to ‘ rubber craft ’ ( not proving all that popular according to market research anyway ) were dropping like flies . |
| 4 | One line of evidence connecting manual activity and symbolic language processes concerns cases of " signing aphasia " in the deaf This refers to the deficit shown by those individuals who have learned to use their hands to communicate in sign language and subsequently sustain brain damage which impairs this ability . |
| 5 | In the same five years from 1981 to 1986 this amounted to nearly 20,000 . |
| 6 | ( In 1986 this amounted to £10,500 . ) |
| 7 | These arrangements of Bayezid II's seem to be among the earliest occurrences of , and may well have helped to set the pattern for , a number of joint muderrisliks and muftiliks which appear in the course of the sixteenth century , many of which were at a relatively high level in the hierarchy . |
| 8 | Even back then , when the world was connected differently , it had been seven miles by road to the nearest town of any size , and that easier to get to by the river . |
| 9 | Wedded to their twin pillars , his superiors in Washington could not allow this heretical thought to be popped into the head of the secretary of state . |
| 10 | The party 's total vote was just half that given to the Communists in a similar number of boroughs . |
| 11 | In addition even if we could identify the decline in utility and the utility remaining we still have to assign some monetary amount to both parts . |
| 12 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 13 | Erm I presume that the s are right in saying that this this relates to the display account at at Newark . |
| 14 | A central problem that an analysis of the concept of an ontological existent brings to the surface concerns the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity . |
| 15 | But as the world became increasingly interdependent this ceased to be the case and we became more concerned at our apparent weakness . |
| 16 | FOREIGN this points to between 1 and 30 other files which , with the module header , are treated as a single entity within LIFESPAN , but when read out are expanded into the original file set . |
| 17 | I set off and we had a taxi because it was terrible and I thought oh well , we had a lovely weekend , I 'm not going to er spoil it by being soaking wet getting to Piccadilly station . |
| 18 | DEC claims 25 OEM design wins for Alpha , with a further 300 said to be evaluating it . |
| 19 | I appeal to the people of Burma to economise as far as possible in the consumption of rice and foodstuffs ; so that we may have some surplus to send to a hungry world . |
| 20 | Whitmore recorded 29 types of tree around such a village in Trengganu , noting that 12 of them were identical with wild forest trees , such as the rambutan ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) and the sentul ( Sandoricum koetjape , Meliaceae ) , a further six appeared to be selected and improved forms of wild trees , five were cultigens like the betel nut , and three were exotics , like the papaya ( Carica papaya , a New World cultigen ) . |
| 21 | Of the top 200 companies , ranked by profitability in 1971–72 , some 45 ceased to be independent companies by 1984 . |
| 22 | We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist . |
| 23 | In Estonia the nationalist Estonian Popular Front won 43 of the 105 seats in the Supreme Soviet and a further 35 went to the Association for a Free Estonia and other groups supporting independence . |
| 24 | It is also suggested that the taxability of removal expenses where a foreign national comes to the UK but does not dispose of his or her existing house should not be taxable . |
| 25 | In 1987 , in the United Kingdom , some 33,000 children attended local authority day nurseries , 174,000 went to registered child minders and another 477,000 went to registered playgroups ( CSO , 1989b , Table 3.8 ) . |
| 26 | All families have their own power structure , and usually the position of the very young and the dependent elderly tend to be the least powerful . |
| 27 | If membership is voluntary , if the union-set wage is a public good applying to all workers in the sector irrespective of union status , and if there are positive costs to membership , why do workers join the union instead of taking a free ride ? |
| 28 | The means by which establishments have been effected in this country are : by Royal or Parliamentary institution … or by a general subscription … or by subscriptions of substantial sums … subscribers become governors or directors of their own establishment … this latter seems to be the proper method to be adopted in the present case … |
| 29 | This all testifies to a growing recognition of corporate crime as a social problem , and a gradual , shocking realization that the victimization rate is higher and causes more suffering than conventional crime . |
| 30 | ‘ This all belongs to Bernard . |