Example sentences of "[adv] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector Ghote , I once remarked a little pretentiously to an interviewer , c'est moi . |
| 2 | Perhaps that seems a little severe , but in practice bishops were subjected henceforth to an ever-closer Roman control and appointment system , while being offered no theology to ground any distinct authority . |
| 3 | Environmental issues now contribute much to an ever-increasing awareness of the overwork of the land and the pollution of the countryside . |
| 4 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 5 | If not in priority need , particularly if considered for the purposes of the Act to have become ‘ intentionally homeless ’ , persons may receive only advice and ‘ appropriate assistance ’ , leaving much to an authority 's discretion . |
| 6 | before going to any big event where you are not sure you will be able to cope ( eg to an interview , to a meeting , to a party , to an exam ) . |
| 7 | At a superficial glance , the New Historicism can seem , especially to an Oxford graduate of my generation , rather like old-style historical scholarship . |
| 8 | It is due to a more far.reaching failure — the failure to conceive the full meaning and possibilities of national education as a whole , and that failure again is due to a misunderstanding of the educational values to be found in the different regions of mental activity , and especially to an underestimate of the importance of the English language and literature . |
| 9 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |
| 10 | This tendency was reinforced in the mid and late 1980s in which the blockbuster box office hits have been , for example , the Indiana Jones films and Ghostbusters and the Stallone and Schwarzenegger films which have catered especially to an audience in their early teens , and use plot as an excuse for a succession of spectacular events . |
| 11 | Our dislike of late has turned quite rightly to an excess of animal fats , combined with a lack of fibre in the diet . |
| 12 | In the late eighteenth century this symbiosis of peers and paupers is revealed in the fashionable aping of lower-class mores and dress , a version of the return to nature that came naturally to an upper class lacking a culture of its own . |
| 13 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 14 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 15 | Looking at the terms of the agreement as contained in the letter from Hunter 's attorney , and the receipt , it is manifest that the payment was not made in discharge of the plaintiff 's rights against all other parties ; and the result of the whole is , that it does not operate as a release , or matter which could have been pleaded as an accord and satisfaction , but amounts merely to an engagement not to sue Hunter , which can only be pleaded by himself ; if the action , therefore , had been brought against two parties , it would not have been a discharge to both . |
| 16 | She likes them , she thinks their work is interesting , she longs to do Story Time and read aloud to an audience of adoring tots . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 18 | We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy . |
| 19 | Now , curved raised bed surround the garden , built in red brick paving , with steps down to an area where a table and chairs catch all the available sun . |
| 20 | That he did not was largely down to an opening seven-frame blast from Parrott . |
| 21 | ORGANIC SOILS are formed under waterlogged conditions and contain very high amounts of organic matter down to an arbitrary specified depth . |
| 22 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 23 | Flats ( 1970 ) rules sequence down to an absolute minimum and spatializes the narrative by creating Beckett-like ‘ characters ’ who are personified place-names . |
| 24 | The requirement for disinfection of food contact surfaces , therefore , applies in general only to those areas where high risk foods are handled or to situations where levels of micro-organisms must be kept down to an acceptable level to maintain shelf life . |
| 25 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 26 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 27 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 28 | The Socialist government revised this forecast down to an increase of only 23% ( over the 1981 level ) — i.e. around 90 MTOE in 1990 with nuclear capacity restricted to 7,500 MW and oil use reduced by increased coal and gas consumption . |
| 29 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
| 30 | The subject is dealt with in great detail in the more substantial books on heraldry as being one of great formality — a label for the eldest son , down to an octofoil for the ninth son . |