Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 2 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 3 | Sometimes we so devalue a physical approach to the world that we begin to devalue action itself . |
| 4 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , he does report many developments in the American social scene , which obviously owe a great deal to the careful monitoring of many local newspapers . |
| 6 | There are examples all the time , of a , I 'm not going to use football as an example or a team as an example in football , and if you suddenly get a new member to the hockey team or a new member to the football team , or whatever and the whole team is transformed just by this one extra person , this one person joining in . |
| 7 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 8 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 9 | This grouping derived primarily from the Tea , Pernetiana and Bourbon roses , all with their origins in China , were the parents of the Hybrid Teas and naturally bear a close resemblance to them , having passed on much of their form , fragrance and perpetual or recurrent flowering . |
| 10 | These two figures , one political , one literary , symbolise the two fundamental strands in Nizan 's emotional and intellectual outlook , and together represent a politico-literary ideal to which Nizan ceaselessly aspires as a communist novelist . |
| 11 | ‘ Little crime ’ calls , what the Metropolitan Police call ‘ beat crime ’ ( Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 35 ) , include a host of infringements and public nuisances , many of which do not come within what the section police define as ‘ real , police work , although some none the less have an intrinsic appeal to ordinary policemen and women . |
| 12 | With a little training both the congregation and the soloist can produce good results , and thus provide a welcome supplement to the singing of hymns . |
| 13 | ‘ Please , ’ I said , speaking carefully , ‘ I just want a one-way ticket to Stockholm for tomorrow morning at 10.05 . ’ |
| 14 | After 1945 democratic socialist parties in a number of West European countries were able , for the first time , to form governments or to become major partners in coalition governments , and thus impart a new direction to economic and social policy making ( and this also happened to some extent in other regions of the world , though encountering greater difficulties ) . |
| 15 | The perfection of this design is attested by the fact that species belonging to quite different families of fish have adopted it and thus bear a strong resemblance to one another . |
| 16 | The steps no longer have a logical reference to the purpose of the dance . |
| 17 | In terms of the performance of the economy as a whole it is not entirely clear what the impact of regional disparities is , though it seems plausible that congestion in the south east and the under-utilisation of resources elsewhere represent a net loss to the economy overall . |
| 18 | First , however , we examine passive resonators , which are perhaps the simplest of all optical systems , and indeed , in one limit , reduce to a one-dimensional noninvertible map , and thus possess a period-doubling route to chaos . |
| 19 | But when he discovers from his review of the precedents that mothers already have a legal right to compensation for emotional injury suffered on a direct view of the accident , and therefore that drivers must already insure against causing emotional damage in those circumstances , the question of insurance costs becomes more complex . |
| 20 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 21 | Indeed , I have heard of some anglers who deliberately attach a big hook to the ‘ feeder and catch plenty of barbel on it . |
| 22 | ‘ the complexities of legal practice are such that it is difficult to see how a one man band can take holidays , cope with illness , and set aside time to keep up to date with the law and still give an adequate service to public . |
| 23 | The criticisms outlined above have not been completely ignored by the planners , since , although the new structure plans still exhibit a keen adherence to key settlement policies ( National Council of Social Service 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1981 ) , alternative settlement policies have also been considered . |
| 24 | Although rail now has the reliability necessary to support the development of intermodal road/rail freight transport in the UK , now established , productivity and cost structures still leave a great deal to be desired . |
| 25 | Needless to say , this new world always bore an uncanny resemblance to the one I had so recently abandoned . |
| 26 | Moreover , in animals with convoluted cortices , like cats , dogs , monkeys , and man , areas usually have a fixed relationship to the pattern of sulci and gyri on the cortical surface . |
| 27 | In fact , modern crocodiles still have a strong resemblance to their long-lost thecodont ancestors , particularly the 230 million-year-old Chasmatosaurus , possessing the same pattern of bony scutes or plates — like armour — beneath the skin . |
| 28 | Managers trying to buy their company still have a fiduciary duty to shareholders . |
| 29 | The following companies also make a substantial contribution to the IFSCC in supporting members of the Praesidium , and our grateful thanks therefore also go to : |
| 30 | Glass shelves , fitted across the window , also make an excellent alternative to curtains or blinds . |