Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But rhetorical questions can be over-used , especially where answers to the questions do not follow immediately . |
| 2 | This court believes that discovery does not take place within [ a state 's ] borders merely because documents to be produced somewhere else are located there . |
| 3 | The results of these measures will for some time be inconclusive , if only because parties to an experiment must still depend on the larger part of the economy which continues to operate according to traditional principles . |
| 4 | Sometimes objects are perceived merely as alternatives to words , as signs to be used in pseudo-linguistic formal analysis . |
| 5 | The nearby Nagacoils act not only as testaments to the fact that the devotee 's prayers have been answered but as tributes to the Serpent Goddess . |
| 6 | But since the actors concerned are ordinary members of the community , who probably conceive of themselves not only as kinsmen to one another but also as kinsmen of the supernatural beings whose mythology is being enacted , it once again becomes crucial that the investigator should fully understand the nuances of the kinship language in which the multifaceted relationships between the living and the dead are being expressed . |
| 7 | In post-excavation analysis , groups of contexts are interpreted as representing walls , postholes , filled-in pits and ditches , and so on , before being put together as clues to structures such as buildings and fences . |
| 8 | And why identify residential and foster care alone as areas to be staffed entirely by females ? |
| 9 | I 'd like to read some discussion on this view rather than allusions to this idyllic England of yore . |
| 10 | Examples from schools who have acquired microcomputers for their libraries will be used as sources of inspiration rather than documents to be copied verbatim . |
| 11 | For several years a new model for nursing has been researched , written about and tried out which allocates a number of patients rather than tasks to each nurse . |
| 12 | The thinking behind this orientation is that customers buy products or services rather than solutions to problems . |
| 13 | Another problem , however , lies in the very assumption that all of those past retirement age are more or less automatically dependent ‘ burdens ’ on the economy rather than contributors to it . |
| 14 | The Government has preferred to rely upon injunctions granted by judges , rather than prosecutions to be decided by juries , to deter " leaks " from the security services . |
| 15 | Arguing that machines must be adapted to men , rather than men to machines , he was one of the first to recognize the importance of a versatile work-force , adjusted from an early age to job transference in later life , within a flexible environment which allowed movement between jobs ( Le Gros Clark 1954b ) . |
| 16 | Since , however , there are legitimate reasons for certain categories of material taking longer than others to be delivered , it would be pointless simply to calculate the mean delivery time for all requests . |
| 17 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 18 | John , with his weight , could get up momentum ( and courage ) enough to go hurtling and somersaulting off the end ; but everyone else came to a halt before the end , despite desperate jerks , which added no more than inches to the length of their slide . |
| 19 | His design solution achieved its ends through its spatial ordering of relationships , and through its emphasis on unimpeded and unrestricted communications , both as aids to good management and as counters to misconduct . |
| 20 | He is not content , however , to leave it at that : to recognise that the perception of and attention to objectivity varies culturally while claims to objectivity itself are often more biased than is realised . |
| 21 | As far as reactions to simple stimuli such as light , gravity , temperature , and humidity arc concerned , the work was largely completed by 1940 . |
| 22 | As far as drawbacks to this approach are concerned , enthusiasm is highly contagious , but people who do n't express it themselves may find it embarrassing . |
| 23 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 24 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |
| 25 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 26 | This telephone system provides communication between each extension as well as connections to the public exchange . |
| 27 | Until May 1978 , all married women and widows had the right to rely on their husbands ' contributions and forgo claims to short-term benefits ( sickness , unemployment and maternity ) as well as claims to pensions in their own right . |
| 28 | But there are dangers as well as benefits to their use . |
| 29 | The leaflets give details of timetables for the Middlesbrough to Saltburn line as well as specials to key towns in the North-East . |
| 30 | The statistics include heart attacks and other natural causes as well as accidents to hikers , climbers , and mountain workers . |