Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distal humerus and proximal tibia and femur are preferentially preserved in the predator assemblages where the greatest breakage overall occurs , while the species that do little damage to the bone cluster near the origin . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 3 | Put all ingredients into a saucepan and slowly bring to the boil . |
| 4 | Meanwhile put vermouth , glace de viande and mustard in a small saucepan , slowly bring to the boil , add cream , boil again , take off heat . |
| 5 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 6 | Spencer Stuart 's success rate — proportion of assignments successfully completed to the client 's satisfaction within the specified time — has been independently estimated at 80% , much higher than many rival firms . |
| 7 | The expectation at an early age that career aspirations can not be met locally contributes to a lack of commitment to the home area and to the acceptance of out-migration as the inevitable solution . |
| 8 | The Cutty Sark was eventually given to the Cutty Sark Society in 1953 and she was restored to look just as she did during her sailing days . |
| 9 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 10 | In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , the greatest honour that could be conferred upon a scientist , and one rarely given to a zoologist . |
| 11 | This pump-leak system allows K + ions to recycle across the basolateral membrane , promotes hyperpolarisation of the parietal cell , and thereby contributes to the maintenance of the electrochemical gradient that favours Cl - exit at the apical membrane during acid secretion . |
| 12 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 13 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 14 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 15 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 16 | Lewis was plump , and rather coarse in appearance ; Williams , who has been unkindly likened to a monkey , was actually rather ethereal in manner , with his long fingers and piercing eyes . |
| 17 | He very rarely goes to the Rosemount wing . ’ |
| 18 | And like any dangerous idea , this one was eventually referred to a committee . |
| 19 | This was eventually referred to the Standing Committee for further study and recommendations . |
| 20 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 21 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 22 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 23 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 24 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
| 25 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 26 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 27 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 28 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 29 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 30 | A Second interim report ( Cmd. 6794 ) , published in April 1946 spelled out the points in greater detail , but additionally referred to the community aspects of settlement . |