Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local tombstone recording the death in 1806 of John Taylor , potter , is apparently the last reference to pot-making at Silkstone . |
| 2 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 3 | LENNOX LEWIS last night threw down the ultimate gambit to world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe saying : ‘ If fighting me is so personal , let's do it and send all the money to Africa . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the essential clue to dramatisation was given in the discovery that new born babies enjoy solving problems . |
| 5 | The bayonet , perhaps the greatest contribution to warfare made by the seventeenth century , was well established almost everywhere in Europe by the beginning of this period . |
| 6 | Obviously the ideological appeal to Thatcherism is across a broad spectrum of social locations . |
| 7 | This is much the sternest test to date of trainer Andy Turnell 's confidence that Country Member is a top staying handicapper in the making . |
| 8 | First and last he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice , rectitude and truth . |
| 9 | Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments . |
| 10 | The middle class is growing and the military is no longer the only path to advancement for the poor but able . |
| 11 | With the much lower production costs of the late 1980s , small circulation was no longer the same barrier to profitability . |
| 12 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 13 | Bad industrial relations was not the only barrier to success that needed to be dealt with . |
| 14 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 15 | An armchair by the fire in winter may be the ideal spot for reading a novel : however , it 's not the best place to structure or write an essay on " Newtonian thermodynamics ' or " Political and philosophical influences on the novels of Jane Austen " . |
| 16 | Right , at the last Committee , it was suggested that the figures be presented to Committee on a town by town basis , I E not the wider travel to work areas , the reason being that the travel to work areas are , are quite large and sometimes mask differences in rates of unemployment between different settlements . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not the worst place to work , by any means , ’ said the woman . |
| 18 | The Bill is not the whole answer to car crime , nor does it pretend to be , but it is an important , new and urgently needed part of the legislative answer . |
| 19 | The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Stuart Street but I was still the first home to No. 9 , and even Lisabeth seemed to be out or at least locked in her cage . |
| 20 | And that despite an interest-rate ceiling of 4.25% imposed by Congress until the mid-1970s , which shut off the long-bond market to government borrowing . |
| 21 | ‘ What on earth do you mean ? ’ asked her mother aggressively , picking up the nearest dress to hand . |
| 22 | The Rome Treaty aims to open up the Common Market to competition in respect of services as well as goods . |
| 23 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 24 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |
| 25 | It is also the biggest venue to date , with more than 150,000 square feet of space . |
| 26 | Almost a century later the new approach to punishment in the community outlined by the White Paper once again presents alcohol misuse as a key problem requiring community-based intervention . |
| 27 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 28 | The Station Chief would have come from home because he wore no tie and he was draped in an old windbreaker , probably the first coat to hand on the pegs by his front door . |
| 29 | The clinician/management issue is probably the greatest challenge to management developers — and others , of course — in the 1990s . |
| 30 | Such grungeplay is probably the strongest link to Velocity Girl 's new deal with Sub Pop : other than that , they hardly fit the Bud-swilling , neck-thrusting bill , and the world is probably a better place for it . |