Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke , although not opposed to corporal punishment as a final sanction , nor indeed for very young children of an age too tender to be reasoned with , in order to instil the necessary fear and awe that a child should have for an adult , strongly disapproved of beating once formal education had begun , just as he was equally opposed to bribing the child to work through material rewards . |
| 2 | Although not given to dramatic expressions , he found himself thinking : End of Act One . |
| 3 | The news appears to scotch rumours that Sybase was looking to spend its money on fellow database vendor Unify Corp , which over recent years has also majored on database independent development tools , although more geared to character-based and transaction processing applications . |
| 4 | St Mary 's , although nearly repaired to satisfactory condition , still needs a new use . |
| 5 | Or cabinet ministers more than fleetingly attached to exotic prostheses ? |
| 6 | Who is referred ( age , sex , whether previously known to social services ) |
| 7 | The factor which accounts for the bulk of the variance in responses ( 27 per cent ) is composed of attitudes towards the process of SSE , with its product , the bringing about of changes in schools , being only weakly correlated , suggesting that teachers simply do not see evaluation as necessarily linked to subsequent action . |
| 8 | Social revolutionaries have been keenly aware of the force of nationalism , as well as ideologically committed to national autonomy , even when it is not actually wanted , as among the Lusatian Slavs , whose language is slowly retreating , in spite of the previous admirable efforts of the German Democratic Republic to foster it . |
| 9 | Even the Kadets , though deeply committed to major social reform and full constitutional democracy , were fiercely critical of continued revolutionary activity . |
| 10 | Though specifically allocated to individual pupils they have increasingly broadened their relationship with the school . |