Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 2 | These facts will be irrelevant if no unit larger than the grapheme is used to read aloud , because a standard rule ea — ‘ ee ’ will be applied to ea regardless of what other graphemes exist in the non-word . |
| 3 | He expected to demonstrate that social support was related to depression independently of stress ( Figure 4.3A ) . |
| 4 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 5 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 6 | ‘ Why are you writing to Richard instead of telephoning him ? ’ |
| 7 | But you can achieve specific aims , and making people think about going to church instead of B & Q is a measurable objective . ’ |
| 8 | Susan shuttled to and fro between Rotterdam and London , occasionally going to Felixstowe instead of London , and making two voyages during the year between London and Stockholm . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a shame he did n't stick to chess instead of cards , ’ the old man finished . |
| 10 | His coach had been parked out of sight while his white saddle horse had been tethered to a post at the roadside so that the passing soldiers would think their Emperor was riding to war instead of being carried in upholstered comfort . |
| 11 | Expenditure patterns will shift to services instead of goods : education , arts and entertainment , leisure , communal activities and personal development will all play a bigger part in our lives . |
| 12 | where defendants conduct leads plaintiff to incur expense in the reasonable belief that the action will proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay , the defendant is estopped from claiming that the action should be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of delay — even if the E limitation period has expired . |
| 13 | ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? ) |
| 14 | Using the Far Western assay coupled with the LZ competition assay we have been able distinguish between bZIP proteins that dimerise with CREB through the leucine zipper and other proteins that bind to CREB independently of the leucine zipper . |
| 15 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 16 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 17 | So on Grand National day , he went to Worcester instead of Aintree and he even rode a winner — Three Dons in a novice hurdle . |
| 18 | I wanted to change our trip and go to Warwick instead of Oxford . |
| 19 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 20 | Why should he write to Maudie instead of me ? ’ |
| 21 | Thus P100 binds to CREB independently of the CREB leucine zipper . |
| 22 | Maybe he 'll get to Arivegaig ahead of us . ’ |
| 23 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 24 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |