Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that existing residents have hardly benefited at all , as most jobs created have gone to those living outside the area , and most economic gains to international finance companies , property developers and construction companies ( see Goodwin , 1989 , for details ) . |
| 2 | The Medical Journalists ' Association 1989 award for the most outstanding contribution to medical journalism has been won by Nicholas Timmins , The Independent 's Health Services Correspondent . |
| 3 | Choosing the transduction strategy is initially governed by the simplest , most direct route to reversible monitoring of biorecognition events in the biolayer . |
| 4 | As the earlier reference to the Rutli Meadow implied , the lake steamer service provides the simplest and most direct access to this property of the Swiss nation , which has its own jetty . |
| 5 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 6 | One of the newest and most interesting additions to domestic lighting has been the tungsten-halogen , or quartz-halogen light bulb . |
| 7 | It was noted that a presidential decree issued in May banning the sale of private property violated the constitutionally assured right to private ownership . |
| 8 | A standard work on the subject , Colin Harrison 's Readability in the classroom ( 1980 ) , is typical in giving only scant attention to pictorial material . |
| 9 | So that title to some extent still sticks with it , but it I ca n't hel I 'm old fashioned enough to th to think of it as being a bit a bit false , you know ? |
| 10 | In contrast to the nationwide Observer/Harris poll of voters referred to earlier , 75 per cent of the Londoners questioned by Gallup on behalf of five London boroughs preferred curbs on cars and better public transport to more city roads . |
| 11 | I remember the shock of realising that the two groups were not making any contact — the word DRAMA meant entirely different things to each side . |
| 12 | By that time I was n't so much listening to that kind of stuff — I had gone through it and stopped . |
| 13 | How distressed and worried is industry in those regions that we might mistakenly have a Labour Government , which would do so much damage to inward investment ? |
| 14 | That is what has done so much damage to local government . |
| 15 | It is perhaps because of this that there is so much opposition to any form of state involvement in today 's press . |
| 16 | Once again , good evening ladies and gentlemen , and once again I 'd like to offer an especially warm welcome to this centenary lecture to those of you who 've come from outside the university . |
| 17 | Yet despite their insistence on a new form of human experience ( one which is curiously reminiscent of the early sociologists ' insistence that late nineteenth and early twentieth societies were emerging into a new society which was leaving behind gemeinschaft relations of blood and community ) it is somewhat surprising to find that contemporary postmodern theorists give only schematic attention to human consciousness and agency . |
| 18 | Claims that English in education could offer some more or less democratic alternative to popular culture began to appear immediately after the war . |
| 19 | Such goods can only be excluded by the state of proposed importation if they pose a sufficiently serious threat to public health or some other legitimate national interest compatible with the needs of the single market . |
| 20 | Encouraging art enthusiasts to see Degas ' work in other than the sepulchral tones of revisionist art history and to lay bare the politics of class and gender would surely have been better achieved by the use of less opaque references to theoretical debate and the inclusion of these fascinating essays in the Liverpool exhibition catalogue itself . |
| 21 | Specifically , this means not only taking into account man 's obvious close evolutionary ties with the chimpanzee and gorilla , but also his rather less obvious resemblance to another primate , the gelada baboon . |
| 22 | In the next two sections I shall concentrate on ways in which Saussurean linguistics enlarged and refined Formalist theories of literature , before considering other less ambitious approaches to literary language . |
| 23 | In contrast , Radburn 's layout adopts the apparently obvious solution to this problem by segregating the traffic from the people so that they are no longer in direct conflict . |
| 24 | The … officer will probably say ‘ Royal Commission ’ , or whatever it should be , or something ‘ long these lines to some industrialist . |
| 25 | We can easily , in fact , appreciate from our own familiar experience the whole spectrum from exceedingly poor vision to excellent vision . |
| 26 | Yet by accepting that so many changes to past practice are needed , the business plan lends credence to the view that negligence claims will succeed . |
| 27 | When she laughed he saw her teeth , not only shining tributes to American dentistry , but also to her remarkable constitution . |
| 28 | In some ways not altogether opposed to the hygienist school ( they did not very much approve of cuddling , although as early as 1932 Ian Suttie had protested against the ‘ taboo on tenderness ’ ) , nevertheless a basic interest in the child 's natural intellectual and social development , together with a less inhibited approach to sexual function , opened the door to greater permissiveness generally . |
| 29 | According to stimulus-response theory , learning to respond with highly distinctive names to similar stimulus situations should tend to lessen the generalization of other responses from one of these situations to another since the stimuli produced by responding with the distinctive name will tend to increase the differences in the stimulus patterns of the two situations . |
| 30 | A further major difference was in the two men 's attitudes towards tribal peoples — whom Wallace recognized as fascinating equals , rather than as " a lower order of the human race " , which was Darwin 's perhaps unwitting contribution to twentieth-century racism . |