Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the statistics on intra-trade are not wholly attributable to a country 's membership of the EC . |
| 2 | Stealing a gun cover undetected , he brought it ashore and presented it dripping wet to the ship 's captain in a conference . |
| 3 | His own brawny , Mancunian accent was obviously akin to The Chameleons ' Mark Burgess , and combined with the haunting guitar riffs of Gedge 's early songs , it all became very uncanny . |
| 4 | ‘ It is obviously crucial to the UK 's economic recovery that smaller companies should have access to development capital . ’ |
| 5 | The House of Lords is less central to the nation 's affairs , less likely to be controversial in its activities and more courteous in the conduct of its proceedings . |
| 6 | This ( as yet unresolved ) dilemma is not only crucial to the FMI 's future . |
| 7 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 8 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 9 | Although their ‘ defeatist ’ tone was highly unwelcome to the regime 's leadership , the SD central digests were usually milder in their statements than many of the reports which were coming into headquarters from the provincial SD stations . |
| 10 | Another ticket perhaps unique to the Bishop 's Castle Railway may have been the Golf returns from Craven Arms to Plowden issued in First Class at 1/6d , Second Class 1/- and Third Class 9d . |
| 11 | The sale of the shares is subject to the caveat emptor ( buyer beware ) principle ; unless the offeror can obtain express warranties and indemnities , or can be considered sufficiently proximate to the target 's directors and their advisers to found liability for negligent misstatement ( see para 20.1 below ) , there will be no redress if the target has unforeseen liabilities which make it less valuable than the offeror was led to believe . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that the offeror will be sufficiently proximate to the target 's auditors to found liability for negligent misstatement in respect of negligently audited accounts ( see para 20.6 below ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 14 | Are you really so unaccustomed to a man 's kisses ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The event gave the TEC a good opportunity to discover the needs of this vital Hampshire industry , which is so important to the country 's prosperity . |
| 16 | His role will be to help develop with other departments a strategy to bring about the transformation in our understanding and use of science and technology in our society that is so important to the country 's future . |
| 17 | Any disclosure of information contained in the plans , it said , would be ‘ extremely damaging to the Government 's industrial relations policy ’ . |
| 18 | This one area of the swing is obviously critical to the ball 's flight , because you will either capitalise on all the swing movements that have preceded this , or you may destroy all the good that went before . |
| 19 | I am sure too , that this safety-first instinct has a lot to do with the fact that big bream are rarely caught from small bays , those semi-circular enclosures which are so appealing to the angler 's eye , and such deadly traps for the use of a pack of predators . |
| 20 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 21 | It embarrassed him to be sitting so close to the rector 's wife and he kept as far to the side as he could so that no one would think he was enjoying her company . |
| 22 | For the moment , however , those in the pavilion were in no danger and the crowded audience which waited was entirely sympathetic to the leader 's case . |
| 23 | Hans-Hubert Schönzeler conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in the Bliss and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the Rubbra ( he is highly sympathetic to the composer 's sound-world and slightly austere emotional style ) . |
| 24 | On February 21 , 1991 a hearing took place before the justices , in camera , at which it was submitted on the defendant 's behalf that the publication of the prosecution would be a penalty highly prejudicial to the defendant 's business , that the publicity would bring about closure , that the restaurant had strong defences to each summons and that there had been serious breaches of PACE by the investigating officer . |
| 25 | A list thus compiled will derive from choices more intelligently made and more efficiently expressed than any that could emerge from a primary ; and if in recording regional judgements it should not be entirely pleasing to a party 's national headquarters , so much , most provincials would say , the better . |
| 26 | I feel an opting-out system would be probably less distressing to the donor 's relatives ( who may find an approach for donation insensitive when they have just been told of an — often — unexpected death ) . |
| 27 | These conditions are only transferable to the grower 's wife . |
| 28 | In the past GPs were free to refer patients to the specialist and hospital which both felt most appropriate to the patient 's medical condition . |
| 29 | But equally they may include or consist of creating a fantasy world or series of events or actions , or indeed creatures , higher or lower forms of life , so that disbelief is temporarily suspended , and the fantasy seems like a different kind of reality , often momentarily preferable to the spectator 's actual experience . |
| 30 | Environment and development groups warned that the summit was likely to be a failure , largely due to the North 's refusal to commit itself to firm accords . |