Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 2 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |
| 3 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 4 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 5 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 6 | In a corner of the floor stood a saucer of milk which had long since turned to an unsavoury junket embellished with blue mould . |
| 7 | She is perhaps better known to the local community for her involvement with two Gaelic choirs . |
| 8 | On the basis of this schema it can be argued that the high-water mark of class/party correlation in the 1960s , registered above , was not so much related to the current policies of the political parties , as to the ‘ delayed ’ effect of the social conditions of the interwar depression years and the substantial shifts within popular ideology and political alignment during and immediately after the second world war . |
| 9 | Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live . |
| 10 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 11 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 12 | In deference to you , Mr. Speaker , perhaps I had better not respond to the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I entirely agree with the spirit of his comments . |
| 13 | Op. 2 contains one of the finest of all German songs , ‘ Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm ’ , which is perhaps best suited to a male voice . |
| 14 | In general , someone with food intolerance will respond to an elimination diet within a week , whereas someone with candidiasis may take much longer to respond to an anti- Candida diet — the response is also more gradual and less dramatic . |
| 15 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 16 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
| 17 | But the crying really upset mother , and because I had so strictly adhered to the feeding rule , I developed an abscess on one breast . |
| 18 | But , as Giddens insists , human interactions and emotions are also constrained and constructed by social relations which are only partly related to the spatial contexts in which they take place . |
| 19 | ‘ The only way we can set about obtaining some is to raise the public profile of the case , which is so far limited to the bald facts of your husband 's murder . ’ |
| 20 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 21 | One Treasury review ( 1985 , p. 19 ) candidly admitted , ‘ What has been achieved so far amounts to an impressive array of intermediate indicators … there are , as yet , relatively few links … between inputs and outputs which show managers how changes in resources and priorities can lead to changes in output … |
| 22 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
| 23 | This is one of the reasons for the choice of hymns and other music being so often limited to a few old war-horses . |
| 24 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 25 | It is a matter of normal practice in the natural sciences for the human judgement involved in a measurement to be only indirectly related to the variable property which is the primary focus of interest . |
| 26 | This month , you need to double check the reason why you feel so strongly opposed to a certain possibility . |
| 27 | It is not however so well suited to an intensive , detailed study of spoken language . |
| 28 | Other old foundations which were for locational or other reasons less well suited to the changing situation , stagnated or declined . |
| 29 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 30 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |