Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes a big man to allow a homeless person into his underpants , so I make no apology for returning to the otherwise distressing subject of Jonathan Lloyd 's nether garments . |
| 2 | Fraganes , a good way of getting to the more remote spots — it makes an eleven-hour round trip regularly , several times each week — — has gone , and no one is going my way . |
| 3 | And they overestimated the attraction to all Irishmen , Protestant and Catholic , of belonging to the newly independent state . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , I hear it totally now that I 'm familiar with all these blues licks , and so I 'm starting to apply that sort of thinking to the more modern type of playing . |
| 5 | On neurophysiological grounds one would expect there to be considerable differences between different individuals with regard to the most effective channels of learning ; therefore , one must regard statements such as that quoted with a certain amount of scepticism . |
| 6 | And with regard to the most sacred sacrifice , the whole burnt-offering , Philo analyses the choice of victim in the following way : |
| 7 | To devise the material and structure of the course , these aims must be interpreted with regard to the more general interests , existing knowledge , and level of understanding of typography students . |
| 8 | In summary , it would appear that the non-respondents as a group differed from the respondents mainly with regard to the more negative feelings they had towards the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 9 | With regard to the now unimportant four percent increase which then if you may made I 'm sure councillors deny it and if we are to believe the reason that we have to bring our rents to this level is because government policy so dictates that we shall do . |
| 10 | The fact that most trust income is subject to deduction of Income Tax at the source has probably obscured the speciality which attaches to the representative character of trustees as payers of Income Tax ; but if the proposition now maintained for the trustees is a sound one it is incomprehensible that it should never have been advanced with regard to the very large sums of trust income which do not , and never can , reach the hands of an income-beneficiary . |
| 11 | Like Denmark , Holland is one of the more go-ahead countries with regard to the sexually transmitted diseases , but , lacking the centralized pathology laboratory , the standard outside the four clinics ( two in Rotterdam and one each in Amsterdam and Utrecht — there are no provincial or peripheral clinics ) is variable , with a few private practitioners providing the only reasonable alternative . |
| 12 | Although the standard of service offered by the special clinics is generally fairly high , in some ways the Germans are still in the Dark Ages with regard to the sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 13 | That road to Co-operation proved , certainly in the United Kingdom , as well as in the United States , to be a dead-end ; and it is convenient to trace the whole of its course before turning to the more significant developments started in his absence . |
| 14 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
| 15 | Select the ones you can achieve before graduating to the more strenuous ones . |
| 16 | The element of distortion and the handling of the space in these paintings relates them intimately to Cubism , although most Cubist painting is close , too , in feeling to the more constructive and austere portraits , still lifes and landscapes . |
| 17 | A little idiosyncratic , I think , my appearance — but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles . |
| 18 | He also manages to end it — master that he was — without resorting to the curiously limp ritardando-diminuendo that Brüggen comes up with . |
| 19 | But they convey all its urgency , and they find the intensity and dynamic range for the central Largo assai without resorting to the excessively slow tempo adopted by the Beaux Arts . |
| 20 | Useful results can often be achieved through simple analysis without resorting to the more sophisticated techniques . |
| 21 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |