Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other typical signs indicating a problem with sharp teeth are , as already mentioned , the evasion of the bit and the horse quidding while eating ( food drops out of the mouth ) ; nodding while being ridden , hanging on the bit to one side , ie pulling on one rein and , in more extreme cases , rearing and bolting. teeth should be left until they are mature . |
| 2 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 3 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn has thrown down the gauntlet to much-travelled striker Howard Gayle , who trained at the Racecourse for the first time yesterday . |
| 4 | Then moving down the table to outstanding planning consents , Whelan Road , Eggborough , three point three hectares . |
| 5 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 6 | Perhaps the clue to this imbalance lies in the title Mr James has chosen . |
| 7 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 8 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 9 | So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower . |
| 10 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
| 11 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 12 | The generation before the Revolution saw not only the opposition to royal power offered by the parlements and their allies but a growth in criticism of the monarchical regime of a more fundamental and ultimately more dangerous kind . |
| 13 | And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures . |
| 14 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 15 | Discretionary policy-making at a number of levels in the organization is thus the key to this system , perhaps corresponding in its internal fluidity to some of the features of Burns and Stalker 's organic model of organization . |
| 16 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 17 | He stressed that the US would abide by the Canal Treaty timetable to hand over the canal to Panamanian rule . |
| 18 | However , it will be noted that the above depends upon the propensity to save and not the propensity to unproductive consumption . |
| 19 | It 's not the answer to all education 's problems , of course . |
| 20 | The community business programme , on the other hand , was not the answer to mass unemployment such as exists in Brownlow . |
| 21 | Is not the key to good service in the health service , good management ? |
| 22 | Tree plantations " not the solution to global warming " |
| 23 | The publisher may be correct in believing that there is a space for a book which reviews Picasso 's career in its entirety and discusses the full range of his activity as a painter , draughtsman , printmaker , sculptor and ceramicist , but this publication is certainly not the solution to this requirement , and Professor Warncke of the University of Tübingen is , sadly , not the scholar to undertake this enormous task . |
| 24 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 25 | Possibly the answer to this question may be found in the recovery of population , and the renewal of pressure on available land . |
| 26 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 27 | In turn these open up the field to considerable latitude of local interpretation . |
| 28 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 29 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 30 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |