Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Choosing the transduction strategy is initially governed by the simplest , most direct route to reversible monitoring of biorecognition events in the biolayer . |
| 3 | It was noted that a presidential decree issued in May banning the sale of private property violated the constitutionally assured right to private ownership . |
| 4 | A standard work on the subject , Colin Harrison 's Readability in the classroom ( 1980 ) , is typical in giving only scant attention to pictorial material . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Claims that English in education could offer some more or less democratic alternative to popular culture began to appear immediately after the war . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We can easily , in fact , appreciate from our own familiar experience the whole spectrum from exceedingly poor vision to excellent vision . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This highly topical addition to New Scientist 's range of posters is available at £3.25 , including postage and packing ( overseas readers add £1.00 ) . |
| 12 | To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority . |
| 13 | Professor Johnson also believes in the simple , but not necessarily simplistic approach to recorded music ; both he and partner Tam Henderson travel with a couple of flight cases containing all they need to make a DDD Compact Disc and ( more singularly these days ) an AAA long playing record . |
| 14 | It seems a highly attractive alternative to periodic sterling crises . |
| 15 | And finally good luck to Woodstock-based football manager Jim Smith the on Sunday . |
| 16 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 17 | It 's said that information is power-it 's also an immensely sensitive barometer to shifting status levels , whatever the weather . |
| 18 | They go on to argue that ‘ in the short-term the most likely approach to educational change is through enlarging the use of increasingly refined self-knowledge by particular institutions ’ . |
| 19 | As one of Japan 's most senior political figures , prior to becoming ill Abe was widely believed to be the most likely successor to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu upon the expiry of his current term in October . |
| 20 | So has the more advanced Introduction to Differential Topology by Th . |
| 21 | Some classifications of rural social groupings introduced in chapter 4 ( pp. 90–1 ) , particularly those by Pahl ( 1966 ) and Ambrose ( 1974 ) , have a more direct relevance to rural housing . |
| 22 | The even strength of his fingers and his robust eloquence ( James Huneker would never have found the Scherzo from the B minor Sonata ‘ as light as a harebell ’ after this ! ) and assurance are often awe-inspiring ; few young pianists have found a more direct path to musical truth , or heeded Jorge Bolet 's adage that speed is so often the enemy of excitement . |
| 23 | In large part , this reflects Pilkingtons ' distinctively British approach to organizational change , based on pragmatism and learning through experience . |
| 24 | May not Lenin have reacted in private in a way not so dissimilar from Stalin 's overt and more violent reaction to political opposition in Georgia in the same year ? |
| 25 | Advancing beyond the purely decorative rococo Gothic of William Kent [ q.v. ] , his designs reflected both the beginnings of a more scholarly approach to Gothic detail and the sentimental appeal of medieval buildings . |
| 26 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
| 27 | A more serious objection to Freudian theory is its supposed irrefutability . |
| 28 | The explanation of the inequality in the wages of women and men is closely related to the explanation of women 's more restricted access to paid employment compared with that of men . |
| 29 | A more structured approach to one-to-one teaching occurs when someone , for example the clinical teacher , arranges to work with a learner on a specific day . |
| 30 | Geary explains the return to tactical violence in the 1 980s partly in terms of the police 's tougher and more sophisticated approach to public disorder induced by the inner-city disturbances of 1981 , though he attributes much of the unusually high level of violence in the miners ' strike to certain exceptional characteristics of the dispute : |