Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At worst , this is quite simply being ignored : neither the LEA adviser , nor the head nor any one else asks about special interests and skills developed on the course and how these could be most effectively put to good use in the school . |
| 2 | The cognitive factors which are significantly related to sign performance in hearing signers are reasoning , cloze and embedded figures , with the last one being most highly related to sign-to-English translation . |
| 3 | In fact their feelings and the vast emotional adjustment they have to make are perhaps best explained to nuclear family dwellers by considering the reverse transplant from nuclear to joint family . |
| 4 | Although its seven hundred years years old , it 's only just come to official notice . |
| 5 | Is not it crystal clear that the Government are willingly in collusion with those stores that are using salami tactics bit by bit — before Christmas , between Christmas and the new year and after the new year — and which so handsomely contribute to Conservative party funds ? |
| 6 | The vegetation of urban commons varies region by region , and so unwittingly contributes to local character in contrast with most urban landscapes . |
| 7 | Ironically , Leeds failed partly because they adopted a tactic so often attributed to Scottish football , the aimless high ball . |
| 8 | The Church rejoiced in its ‘ unity in diversity ’ manifested in the various rites that witnessed to the richness of ‘ catholicity ’ ( so often reduced to bland uniformity ) . |
| 9 | Drug abuse is spreading alarmingly fast according to recent government figures . |
| 10 | Order is maintained through ‘ social expenses ’ policy ; accumulation is fostered directly by ‘ social investment ’ expenditures to reduce production costs ; and social cohesion is boosted by ‘ social consumption ’ spending , which boosts workers ' living standards ( and hence only indirectly contributes to increased profitability ) . |
| 11 | Exploratory techniques are extremely well fitted to sociolinguistic research . |
| 12 | The Wandjina images and the cult of the Rainbow Serpent are so closely aligned to Indian serpent worship that the probability of cultural interchange in some remote age is no longer a vague theory . |
| 13 | First , he takes ‘ meaning ’ rather than knowledge or rationality as his point of departure and , secondly , his headings are less closely related to conventional subject headings : symbolics ( including language , mathematics and other non-discursive symbolic forms ) , empirics ( natural and social sciences ) , aesthetics ( the arts ) , synnoetics ( personal knowledge ) , ethics , and synoptics ( history , religion , philosophy ) . |
| 14 | Furthermore , only modules referenced by a package can be so explicitly sent to offline storage . |
| 15 | In opposition to this , Kay and Silberston ( 1984 ) argue that competition would not necessarily lead to equal efficiency , since publicly owned concerns have the deep purse of public funds on which to draw . |
| 16 | Keeping staff to a minimum and paying them very little obviously reduces costs , but it does not necessarily lead to good quality care . |
| 17 | Sound-broadcasting is a particular skill , not necessarily related to literary ability though impossible without it . |
| 18 | Hand contact surfaces : This is one area of disinfection not necessarily confined to high risk zones especially in catering . |
| 19 | Tories are not much given to Freudian analysis , but one minister said , the party remained psychotic after the trauma of three years ago . |
| 20 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 21 | A relative concept highlights not only costs to physical health . |
| 22 | Like many students the world over , the young Reagan was not overly committed to academic work ; both at school and college his grades were mediocre and his principal preoccupations were sport and drama . |
| 23 | Mr Major on the stump was exactly what Mr Major is in Downing Street , in a television studio , in private conversation : calm , prudent , reasonable , sympathetic , friendly , not easily moved to public passion . |
| 24 | However , as in Burma , the demobilised soldiers did not just return to civilian life : they formed a quasi-military organisation similar to the PVO , though on an ever larger scale , the People 's Security Organisation , Badan Keamanan Raykat ( BKR ) . |
| 25 | Mrs Beeson was not normally given to strong language ; most certainly not in a loud voice — and most certainly not in an Australian accent ! |
| 26 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 27 | Certainly platelets do not normally adhere to arterial endothelium if it is not damaged but the explanation for this antithrombotic property of intact endothelium remains obscure . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Hamilton ( Mr. Robertson ) is not usually given to fanciful rhetoric , and if he studies the movement of opinion in Europe he must know that since Maastricht more and more people have begun to comment on the future of Europe in the same sort of way as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I did before . |
| 29 | Platelets do not usually adhere to normal endothelium but the reasons why normal endothelium is inert with respect to stimulating platelet adhesion and aggregation is not fully understood ( Shattil & Bennett , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | It is characteristic of the Government that although the Minister spoke for one quarter of an hour , he did not once refer to new clause 2 or defend the Government 's record . |