Example sentences of "to a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Morley 's dozen Latin works , probably early and almost all intensely penitential , the motet in England came to a not undistinguished end . |
| 2 | Old victories are savoured ; ancient defeats glossed over , and the Party 's leaders held up to a not always affectionate scrutiny . |
| 3 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 4 | The reaction of the locals varied from an ill-concealed smirk to a barely suppressed guffaw . |
| 5 | In hibernating animals , the body temperature falls much further , to just above freezing , while heartbeat and all the other bodily functions slow down to a barely perceptible pace . |
| 6 | Her voice faded to a barely audible whisper . |
| 7 | An assembler instruction will correspond to a frequently performed operation and represents many machine code instructions . |
| 8 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE , who partnered Halkopous to a tremendously impressive victory at Cheltenham on Saturday , will retain the ride on the new Champion Hurdle favourite . |
| 9 | I find it sad that the business of getting practitioners , medical or alternative , to provide evidence of the efficacy of the treatments they use is left largely to consumer organisations , and to a financially hard pressed charity like HealthWatch , which has to step in where the professionals seem afraid to tread . |
| 10 | An underpowered helicopter will rapidly decelerate as soon as you apply any control input and the model will come to a dead stop-probably inverted . |
| 11 | Where this gas had combined with the monsoon rains it had produced weak solutions of sulphuric acid and these had etched the exposed architectural surfaces to a dead white . |
| 12 | The tea cools to a dead silver — a skin that gathers and heals |
| 13 | She spread butter on to a deliciously aromatic roll , and spread it with honey , adding calmly , ‘ This is your villa . |
| 14 | The pool was lit from below and shimmered the water to a deliciously inviting pale green . |
| 15 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 16 | In practice , the adherence to a clearly defined policy for fetal heart rate monitoring may be more important than the actual method itself . |
| 17 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 18 | This was a major departure for NATO , which had been based since its foundation in 1949 on the principles of taking joint action in defence of member states only and of restricting operations to a clearly designated area covering the member states ' territories . |
| 19 | He may have hoped that the Christian democratic MRP would rally to a clearly articulated Gaullist constitution . |
| 20 | Twenty-year-old Peake not only scored the goal which put Pool on their way to a desperately needed win , he was also one of only a handful of players on either side who looked capable of coming to terms with the gale-force wind and bumpy pitch . |
| 21 | The Party , no ! ’ amounted to a widely prevailing view on the eve of the invasion of the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | In Australia the need to make the material more accessible to a widely scattered clientele has been met in part by the adoption of a centre for every state and territory , each of which holds a replicate collection of teaching materials . |
| 23 | As we have seen , the move towards a more considered view of the curriculum was hastened by the initiative of central Government , responding to a widely held disenchantment with educational performance . |
| 24 | The fact that the sea waybill is not a document of title in some important maritime jurisdictions such as Great Britain removes it , according to a widely held view , from the purview of the Hague Rules and Hague-Visby . |
| 25 | Although the American Anthropological Association 's statement on ethics is of some relevance to sociolinguists and is easily accessible as an appendix to a book which deals specifically with ethical problems in fieldwork ( Rynkiewich and Spradley 1971 ) , linguists do not in general have recourse to a widely accepted ethical code . |
| 26 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 27 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 28 | It is important to be clear about one thing ; contrary to a widely held belief , those who voted ‘ No ’ to Maastricht were not voting ‘ No ’ to Mitterrand . |
| 29 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 30 | As the rotation accelerated , the aircraft would swing outwards , from a wing-level to a steeply banked attitude , with more cable being gradually paid out until , having attained flying speed , it could be ‘ released smoothly under its own power , without fear of stalling ’ . |