Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly the most interesting works to surface in the two sales were a group of drawings by Louis Carrogis ( called Carmontelle ) , an artist who pursued a brilliant career at the Court of Orleans . |
| 2 | Even so , together with the problems at Ely , they may reflect a somewhat hostile attitude to Cnut in this area , perhaps exploited by Thorkell , its earl , who was banished in 1021 . |
| 3 | She became one of those women reporters whose listening ear and less judgemental approach to people in trouble helped to make the distillation of news the more respected practice it is today . |
| 4 | Chief Supt Richard Stacey on surveillance at Broadwater Farm The curse of drug addiction , which hovers like a dark cloud over entire nations , is surely one of the most serious menaces to freedom in our time . |
| 5 | These systems expect data to be presented to them in terms of relations and normally present results to users in the form of relations . |
| 6 | You could listen almost any time , anywhere — especially with your Walkman headset that filtered nothing but a mildly irritating hiss to passengers in your bus , say , or your train compartment . |
| 7 | Dicta in Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 suggested that the courts would adopt a generally non-interventionist approach to exclusions in commercial contracts . |
| 8 | The study 's thought to be the first of its kind in Britain and shows a generally positive response to conditions in the county 's fifteen council run homes . |
| 9 | Environmentalists stress that these are only preliminary findings , and that over the next few years , more extensive damage to wildlife in the Sound may be uncovered . |
| 10 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 11 | On the one hand , the Act tries to encourage judges and magistrates to sentence more petty offenders to punishments in the community rather than to custody ; but on the other hand , the Act allows people convicted of violent or sexual offences to receive harsher sentences than hitherto . |
| 12 | Education services , of course , are a vitally important aid to parents in providing schooling and ancillary services . |
| 13 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 14 | Also , within the constraints imposed by the basically enumerative framework , the revisers of the major schemes do attempt to take account of a more systematic approach to classification in any proposed revisions of these schemes . |
| 15 | Similarly international conventions such as the International Convention for the Protection of Human Rights 1950 , ratified by Great Britain in 1953 , do not give directly enforceable rights to individuals in this country before the British courts . |
| 16 | ‘ The decision is unacceptable to all Teesdale farmers , who can now expect more expensive journeys to marts in Darlington and Bishop Auckland . ’ |
| 17 | There is also strong opposition to cuts in social security payments , training and cash to ease the introduction of the council tax . |
| 18 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 19 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 20 | Professor Dworkin ( 1988 : 7–8 ) has summed up present attitudes to liberty in his trenchant piece in Index on Censorship : |
| 21 | There are also mundane threats to travellers in the hills around Castle Drachenfels . |
| 22 | The launch of the new Continental R at this week 's Geneva show is perhaps the most important step to date in the unfolding of Ward 's strategy for Bentley . |
| 23 | Indeed , some writers have suggested that the development of cheap , fairly reliable and fairly safe forms of contraception , together with the liberalization of the laws on abortion , have been among the most important gains to women in recent decades . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | However , this does n't mean we should pretend to love everyone and everything , handing out pink roses to passers-by in a sentimental haze . |
| 26 | Not everything in the CNAA 's and the colleges ' procedure was conducive to innovation , but the ripple effect from groups of staff having ‘ to think out their own courses ’ was probably one of the most immediate invitations to innovation in the early years of the CNAA . |
| 27 | Further , as we link these seemingly hopeless situations to God in prayer , he will help us to see hidden possibilities within them . |
| 28 | Even with the buoyant recruitment of 1969/70 , it was not easy to attract well qualified applicants to courses in French . |
| 29 | The first Comintern Congress in 1919 devoted almost exclusive attention to events in Germany , where revolution was believed to be imminent . |
| 30 | Captured by Blackfoot or Atsina Indians when accompanying buffalo-hunters to Montana in the late eighteenth century , she was sold to eastern Indians and then on to a French-Canadian at Red River . |