Example sentences of "to past [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parties adopt or disavow policies not only to win forthcoming elections but also as a response to past electoral outcomes . |
| 2 | The second group contains elements that could overlap with other familiar schemas ; for example , " Mars ' is a lexical realisation of a real object in our world knowledge , " human colony " is close to past imperialist notions on Earth , and " Envoy " could also plausibly be the name of an Earth-bound ship . |
| 3 | Therefore , in the true deserts one is thrown back more strongly on to past climatic conditions to explain obviously water-formed features . |
| 4 | The study of social and economic aspects of early Anglo-Saxon society are still viewed as spin-offs from art-historical and technological study rather than topics worthy of treatment in their own right ; when thematic studies have been produced in recent years the themes have tended to remain based on site-types or artefacts rather than themes which may be more directly relevant to past human behaviour ( Wilson 1976a ) . |
| 5 | People can plan their affairs with more confidence if they have more guidance about when and how the state will intervene , and the community will therefore be better off if it can reasonably look to past judicial decisions to predict future ones . |
| 6 | Thus , the marked increase in tumours of the cardia may relate to past smoking habits , and may represent a cohort phenomenon as smoking increased between 1915 and 1950 . |