Example sentences of "[verb] to a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company began rating suppliers in 1984 and 1990 moved to a more sophisticated system with the introduction of its supplier Quality Management Process . |
| 2 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 3 | When Mr Wilson was elected to the leadership in 1963 , these doctrinal disputes were smoothed over and the Labour Party entered office in 1964 committed to a more rapid rate of growth , improved welfare benefits , more expenditure on schools , houses , roads and health and one major measure of public ownership — the renationalization of the steel industry . |
| 4 | Local medical officers were usually committed to a purely professional radicalism , transfixed with the reduction of their magic figures , the disease and death rates , in local sanitary areas . |
| 5 | The lack of young women committed to a consistently woman-centred psychology , for instance , indicates not just that this psychology needs to spread its feminine community wider , but that it is a historically-specific product of late 1970s debates within western feminism , and that it , like other branches of psychology , is a profession in which experience counts . |
| 6 | The Government are committed to a publicly funded health service , firmly located in the public sector . |
| 7 | these government run industries in these developed countries , they are subsidized to a very large extent and they are not competitive on , on the world market . |
| 8 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 9 | The upshot of these economically balanced budgets within species is that arms races between species tend to come to a mutually stable end , with one side ahead . |
| 10 | For Dr Petruska Clarkson , Director of the Metanoia Psychotherapy Training Institute the disturbing picture now emerging is a brutally clear example of how difficult it is for a human being to adjust to a radically different reality . |
| 11 | My eyes have to adjust to a more brilliant light . |
| 12 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 13 | The warmth of a moment ago that had so overwhelmed her had cooled to a more familiar glint of contempt . |
| 14 | By the time of his death , in May 1991 , none of his many books was available in paperback , and sales of the hardback editions had dropped to a very low level indeed . |
| 15 | His voice suddenly dropped to a more intimate key . |
| 16 | By day or by night , when its lights so insolently interrupt what ought to be the dark solitude of the mountains , this extension of Saint-Lary is an offence ; only when the weather closes in , and the clouds hang low , returning the high ledge on which it stands to a very satisfactory invisibility , is the valley 's honour temporarily saved . |
| 17 | His first ‘ law of penal evolution ’ was a two-pronged ‘ law of quantitative change ’ : ‘ The intensity of punishment is the greater the more closely societies approximate to a less developed type — and the more the central power assumes an absolute character ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 295 ) . |
| 18 | The self-deception that we can , from our late twentieth-century perspective , in any way approximate to a genuinely eighteenth-century response to Mozart is only compounded by what Osborne sees as the false claims of the authenticity movement . |
| 19 | A minority of landlords commanded sufficient capital to adapt successfully to farming based on hired labour and greater mechanization , thus contributing to a very sharp rise in Russia 's grain exports . |
| 20 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 21 | Today we have the last of the series , and we have come to a very sudden change in the style of Paul 's writing . |
| 22 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 23 | As the election approached , perceptions about party chances became more homogeneous and the predictability of different perceptions of Conservative and Alliance chances sank to a very low level : most voters thought that the Conservatives ' chances were good and that Alliance chances were poor . |
| 24 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 25 | Returning to a more traditional style of presentation , and returning also to the question at issue in the light of the evidence presented above , I should like to offer the following conclusions : |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't need to be more famous , ’ he said last week after returning to a charmingly comfortable home converted from farm buildings some 15 miles to the north-west of Newcastle . |
| 27 | Thus , it was argued , whatever effect upon the market the authorities might have , it would be confined to a very narrow spectrum of assets and interest rates . |
| 28 | The blue-chip market is confined to a very limited number of names . |
| 29 | A plausible explanation is that a poloidal magnetic field draws cosmic-ray protons out of the plane before many have interacted with molecular gas , which is confined to a very thin layer ( 40pc thick ) . |
| 30 | The method can cover the complete range of moduli encountered in polymeric systems but is confined to a relatively narrow frequency range of 0.01 to 10 Hz . |