Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospective studies of intervention have been confined mostly to comparison of one form of treatment with another . |
| 2 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 3 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |
| 4 | In March 1928 he wrote on a theme which relates to that of Ash-Wednesday ( Part 11 ) , hoping that Hardy 's burial in more than one site would not establish a precedent and that future great men would not be ‘ dismembered ’ as if the nation were ‘ given over to idolatry of relics and fetishes ’ . |
| 5 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 6 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 7 | The King held it good to accomplish her desire ; and forthwith ordered letters to be drawn up to Rodrigo of Bivar , wherein he enjoined and commanded him that he should come incontinently to Valencia , for he had much to communicate to him , upon an affair which was greatly to God 's service , and his own welfare and great honour . |
| 8 | And the reason why they were shoved under the bed was because I had n't got round to sort of you know , doing anything about it sort of thing . |
| 9 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 10 | The first little bit of time is spent just to sort of take it easy , take our time , get to know another , and for us to assess the drive . |
| 11 | We were brought up to think of the wonderland between Loch Broom and the roads to Skye as Wester Ross , and always will . |
| 12 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 13 | If we are brought up to think of asking for help as childish , and if our own requests for help have not been swiftly and cheerfully met , we are less likely to respond in a simple and positive way to demands . |
| 14 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 15 | The same economic and social conditions in the plains area might have led only to loss of soil fertility but not to wholesale soil erosion and environmental collapse . |
| 16 | The net change in height centile compared with diagnosis was comparable for surgically and non-surgically treated patients followed up to completion of their growth . |
| 17 | Clearly this damage caused decompression of the pressurised cabin , but it should not necessarily have led automatically to separation of the horizontal tail surfaces . |
| 18 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 19 | Poor attendances were put down to lack of big names . |
| 20 | Also , when you deprive your body of food , it prefers to derive the energy it needs from your muscle tissue as well as your fat stores — therefore any weight loss can be put down to loss of lean muscle , not just flab ! |
| 21 | Lithuania was admitted formally to membership of the IMF on April 29 , as the 157th member country . |
| 22 | As he has no theoretical framework and no fundamental economic background , he is limited essentially to extrapolation of short-term clusters of newsworthy items , as seen through the eyes of newspaper editors and reporters . |
| 23 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 24 | The file will be forwarded immediately to office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in London , for a decision about whether or not to prosecute the Bishop . |