Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers . |
| 2 | We are too much a prey to the belief that if one kind of education is good , another must be bad , or at least worse than the good . |
| 3 | So to some extent your responses re i is quite naturally a response to the position you face with your employers is n't it . |
| 4 | The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other . |
| 5 | This holiness is not merely a devotion to the deity ( there was plenty of such attachment in the ancient world that was far from holy — for instance the cult prostitution that was so common in the temples ) , nor a mere adherence to ethical rules ( there were plenty of those current in antiquity , too , and they possessed all the disadvantages , while lacking the advantages , of the Jewish law ) . |
| 6 | The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims , crotchets and quavers there are in a bar . |
| 7 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 8 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
| 9 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 10 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 11 | On the left the slope broke off and fell down a cliff to the river . " |
| 12 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 13 | These include the ‘ drift to the south ’ , rural decline and subsequent revitalization , planned urban overspill and decentralization from cities , small town growth , and now perhaps a halt to the decline of the major metropolitan centres . |
| 14 | Perhaps a visit to the glass-animal maker in the Bat House would be of interest , and no visit to the park would be complete without a browse around the spacious gift shop where you can purchase a memento of your visit . |
| 15 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 16 | While most obviously a reaction to the coalescence of the right , it was also a reaction against the establishment in north Korea on 14 February of the Interim People 's Committee under the leadership of Kim Il Sung . |
| 17 | As Leader of the Opposition , in November 1965 he decided against signing personally a foreword to the report which it had been agreed should be published as a pamphlet by the Conservative Political Centre . |
| 18 | But footballers are still not wealthy by any means — so a trip to the west is the jackpot they hope for . |
| 19 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 20 | Only a return to the barrenness of her life . |
| 21 | Only a return to the drug under control could have saved him . |
| 22 | Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons . |
| 23 | From this it was only a step to the French and English abbreviation ‘ jade ’ . |
| 24 | Sen , for instance , considered national economic development to be only a means to the end of better living standards . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , responsiveness or sensitivity in such instances is only a means to the end , which is to effect change of some kind . |
| 26 | Montague , meanwhile , who was only a party to the takeover , appears to have come off better than the man who masterminded it . |
| 27 | Formalities did not take long , and in no time they were riding upwards in the lift and then walking along a corridor to the door of Ven 's suite . |
| 28 | Anyway , he sees this fat cunt with some of his mates with some tea — and he 's moved along a bit to the end and he 's pissing down and out through the open bit and its all blowing down on these cunts ’ heads and into their |
| 29 | They tied up in a backwater under a sky black as old blood , and walked along a pontoon to the apron of an enormous dock . |
| 30 | ( It should be noted that past performance is not necessarily a guide to the future . ) |