Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 2 | The way of life in these republics in the 1980s remained demonstrably much more ‘ Western ’ than that in the other Soviet republics , and they were among those most exposed to outside cultural influences ( Estonia , for instance , had ready access to Finnish television and ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Dynasty ’ had a devoted following ) . |
| 3 | The main wind-break should protect the side of the garden most exposed to prevailing winds , with individual or grouped shrubs positioned to limit the impact of other seasonal winds and create sheltered corners for delicate plants . |
| 4 | France oscillated between mid-nineteenth-century free trade and , more lastingly , protectionism : slow to industrialize , France , for most of the Third Republic ( 1870–1940 ) , was little given to central planning or state interventionism . |
| 5 | Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression . |
| 6 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 7 | CID is also being extended to cover those persons forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitals . |
| 8 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 9 | Jackson 's work is fundamentally committed to formal concerns ; the spatial effects of colour , the purity of form , the dynamics of line ; the paintings appear both as experiments in aesthetics and exercises in logic . |
| 10 | In Drosophila the spatial expression of dpou-19 , ( pdm-2 ) , dpou-28 ( pdm-1 ) , and cfla is predominantly confined to restricted areas at the cellular blastoderm stage and , later in development , to the embryonic nervous system and the hindgut ( 17,18 ) . |
| 11 | NCD 's share shows no sign of slipping , says Greg Blatnik of the X Business Group , even though the system vendors are all likely to increase their share — one reason might be that it 's more important for NCD systems to work with a variety of hosts — Peter Wellings of NCD 's UK distributor Xanadu claims that DEC , for instance , has had its X-terminal success mostly confined to existing DEC installations . |
| 12 | The showers , mostly confined to western areas , will be heavy with thunder , and will spread to some other parts later . |
| 13 | The package , which confirmed Italy 's position as the Western state most committed to Lebanese reconstruction , comprised US$240 million in export credits , US$94 million in concessionary loans , US$64 million in grants and US$63 million in mixed credits . |
| 14 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 15 | Even in the mid-1950s the differences between the two , however acute in 1956 , are better likened to temporary volcanic eruptions than to fundamental alterations to the landscape . |
| 16 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 17 | These are only given to skilled people who contribute to the US economy . |
| 18 | It is strongly advised that this privilege is only given to responsible users — please contact Sema Software Technology Technical Support Department for further advice . |
| 19 | It is certainly less idealized , and less given to black-and-white distinctions . |
| 20 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 21 | The application of all facilities under the KJHG to children of foreign nationality is explicitly legalized where previous legislation had only referred to German young people and children . |
| 22 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 23 | Tories are not much given to Freudian analysis , but one minister said , the party remained psychotic after the trauma of three years ago . |
| 24 | Much given to quarrelsome chases , habitually dives and has pattering take-off . |
| 25 | Of medium height and strong build , Hobhouse ( despite his hay fever ) was much given to outdoor activities , undertaking long expeditions on his bicycle and riding to hounds with a recklessness that sometimes resulted in personal injury . |
| 26 | Eamonn McCann described him as a ‘ passionate Republican , much given to violent rhetoric ’ . |
| 27 | Gregarious , and easily told from Lapwing ( p. 125 ) in mixed flocks by pointed wings ; much given to aerial manoeuvres . |
| 28 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 29 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 30 | The effects of Scottish resistance were not , however , only confined to literary creation . |