Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political attitudes articulated by journalists and writers were by no means either homogeneous or uniformly hostile to the government . |
| 2 | Even though these activities appear innocuous enough many teachers and administrators are suspicious or even hostile to the idea of marketing schools and the education service . |
| 3 | But it 's well worth it : sweet and juicy with a lovely flavour and large fruits , three or even two to a pound . |
| 4 | And that is why , as it seems to me , fairness dictates that the instructions upon which he is directed to act should be expressed in language which is unambiguous and capable of being readily understood without reference to speculation , from material not obvious or readily available to the reader , about what Parliament intended to say but has not clearly said . |
| 5 | In the pre-industrial societies , which provide the main field for anthropological enquiry , this kind of distinction is either non-existent or quite peripheral to the main field of the ordinary individual 's day-to-day activities . |
| 6 | He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance . |
| 7 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 8 | The mass of the population ( especially the mestizos and the coloured and Indian populations who were truly ‘ slaves ’ ) were either indifferent or actively hostile to the political ambitions of the white creoles of the towns and the large estates , who represented a more immediate oppression than that of the Spanish crown . |
| 9 | First , the view that oral culture is irrelevant or even hostile to the acquisition of literacy . |
| 10 | What puzzles a philosopher and taxes his mind to distraction may look completely irrelevant or quite obvious to a businessman . |
| 11 | Such a strategy , says Parkin , is adopted by professions like law and medicine , where long periods of training , very often only marginally relevant or even unnecessary to the actual performance of the job , restrict the numbers of those prepared , or able to afford , to forgo the rewards of an occupation for a long period . |