Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weighted one-period ahead expected returns ( WCOMP ) take the form : the UK relative to returns elsewhere , ER denotes the change in the sterling exchange rate and superscript e denotes an expected variable . |
| 2 | Although there are some hopeful signs of recovery in the US market which should ultimately lead to improvements elsewhere , there seems little prospect that world market conditions will be easier in 1993 than in 1992 . |
| 3 | In our attempts to draw the design activity back to a single integrated whole we have to look back to parallels close to that point of initial separation . |
| 4 | After the procedure saturation fell to values significantly below baseline in both groups ( p<0.01 ; 95% CIs : 2.4 to 3.5 ) . |
| 5 | The crematorium chapel was full and more listened to the service which was relayed to crowds outside . |
| 6 | The first relates to contracts already in existence when the receiver is appointed . |
| 7 | Yeah well it but ah similar to contracts personally |
| 8 | This appeal raises a short point not without interest to solicitors generally . |
| 9 | Government approvals now mainly apply to programmes rather than individual projects and relate to only one year at a time . |
| 10 | Mr Wilson said : ‘ The most pleasing thing is that we attract people to activities here who do n't necessarily have anything to do with the Baptist church . ’ |
| 11 | Pressure from recreation on these open areas is usually considerable , with consequently much disturbance to birds particularly in the breeding season . |
| 12 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 13 | To the side of the sink , under the draining-board , were half-empty sacks and bags which contained cereals , wood shavings and what looked like the sort of seeds you feed to birds rather than the ones you roll with tobacco . |
| 14 | When the ice melted and the seas rose again , the climate to the north became friendly to orangs once more . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to say to IBEC and to employers generally , if you want to continue to do business with Congress then you will have to sort out the cowboys in your midst . |
| 16 | Monies are paid to a business in a variety of forms and all our services are designed to ensure that funds are received , processed , and credited to accounts as quickly and cost effectively as possible . |
| 17 | better knowledge ( because of the database — 18 per cent of new debts were linked in some way to debts already known ) |
| 18 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 19 | The development of the television subgenre of the novelistic is not a completed form and may never reach classical definition , but it can be traced historically from forms of narrative inherited from radio , theatre and popular entertainment to forms more appropriate to the specific conditions of television . |
| 20 | In Great Britain , for example , parts of the Eocene were characterised by hot , humid climates , as is shown by the resemblance of the contained fossils to forms now occurring in Malaya . |
| 21 | This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour . |
| 22 | ‘ Here 's to generations yet unborn . ’ |
| 23 | Perfect pads : save the shoulder pads from your old blouses and dresses and glue them on to coathangers so that newer , delicate clothes do n't tear . |
| 24 | Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received . |
| 25 | Waves crashed deafeningly on to pebbles beneath . |
| 26 | For present purposes there are in my judgment two streams of authority relating to moneys wrongly extracted by way of impost . |
| 27 | WE ALL KNEW WHAT HE WAS UP TO AGES AGO |
| 28 | ‘ We all knew what he was up to ages ago , ’ says society columnist Taki Theodoracopulos . |
| 29 | A combination of justified annoyance , guilt and weeks of overwork blew John McLeish 's temper to shreds instantly , and Francesca , seriously over-stressed and not one to duck a quarrel at the best of times , responded in kind . |
| 30 | The unemployment rate and the ratio of job-seekers to vacancies both fell precipitately . |