Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It triggered Marr into writing one of his most elegantly moody melodies to date . |
| 2 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 3 | My mother could n't understand it , but her rage and jealousy had long since given way to contempt and the occasional satisfaction of genuine sympathy . |
| 4 | ‘ We must stress that , compared with coal imports , the rush to invest in new gas-fired power stations is a much more serious threat to pits and jobs ’ British Coal chief executive Neil Clarke . |
| 5 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 6 | The practical reason why it is wise in the long term to give much more careful thought to river and wetland management is that drainage can contain , profoundly , the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 7 | The false starts of the last couple of years have forced a much more flexible approach to budgeting , management of the supply chain , staff scheduling and so on . |
| 8 | Sir Anthony paid tribute to the progress John Maltby had made in steering AEA to a much more commercial approach to business . |
| 9 | In contrast , the indigenous peoples have a much more realistic approach to agriculture . |
| 10 | Surely a much more sensible attitude to resources all round ? ’ |
| 11 | And we would put that down as basic guidance to staff when |
| 12 | It became quite clear that the less immediately obvious tendency to back /a/ , which had also been observed , was a much more regular process and was associated with young ( chiefly male ) speakers . |
| 13 | She danced down them in almost weightless pirouettes to paths that wandered between the flower-beds . |
| 14 | Chancellor Kohl spoke in almost identical terms to President Franois Mitterrand and the others in arguing that ‘ instability and uncertainty in the outside world ’ made it imperative for the EC to accelerate economic integration . |
| 15 | First , a number of studies have shown that babies respond in quite distinct ways to stimuli which have social significance ( see Bremner 1988 for a review ) . |
| 16 | Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail . |
| 17 | It was the air raid shelter then and we went down there and we was in the shelter and er we 'd been down there ten minutes to quarter of an hour oh there was such a bang outside we thought this is it , you know , all the bits and stones and rubbish and er that was stuck on the ceiling was disturbed you know and it down it on top of us , you know , all bits and plaster and water th it was er shi close . |
| 18 | She stands in very stark contrast to Mrs. Malette in Canada . |
| 19 | Here they operate in very different surroundings to Blackpool 's , as seen on this page : — |
| 20 | All we can say is that the burden of the wood adds further poignancy to an already heart-rending story , and throughout the journey acts as an all too visible reminder to Abraham of the act he is about to commit . |
| 21 | Secondly , I 've decided it 's time for one of my all too infrequent trips to Elland Road . |
| 22 | I agree entirely with that sentiment , but I find it hard to understand how she can then be so keen to hand over so much power to Brussels on decisions that affect people at a local level , whether on farming , training or whatever . |
| 23 | Christians believe that the quality of forgiveness is most important in order to achieve not only personal closeness to God but reconciliation between people . |
| 24 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 25 | With all the good will in the world , an Arab writer or translator can not side with this admittedly more enlightened approach to gender without sacrificing the readability of the target text . |
| 26 | But the benefits have come full circle , for the long master chronologies subsequently established for archaeological dating and calibration of radiocarbon results are now of just as much value to climatologists studying cycles in weather patterns associated with factors like sunspot activity and variations in the earth 's orbital parameters . |
| 27 | The services referred to below are described as they would relate to a Northern Ireland exporter but it should be realised that similar services are of just as much importance to importers . |
| 28 | Just how many goals to scum score from crosses into the box … let alone from Giggs. the bloke is absolute CRAP at crossing . |
| 29 | Varying through very pale pink to red . |
| 30 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |