Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 2 | This not only produces a balanced form to the plant , carrying and showing the blooms to advantage , but reduces hindrance to air movement to a minimum . |
| 3 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 4 | Censorship only exposes the offending article to a greater public . |
| 5 | Censorship only exposes the offending article to a greater public . |
| 6 | As Robinson ( 1985 , p. 42 ) puts it , ‘ the FMI merely adds a new twist to the whole question of … civil servants ’ answerability to Parliament' . |
| 7 | One version of the story has Massaccio losing all of his clothes as well , which not only adds a new possibility to the origin of the saying ‘ to lose your shirt ’ , but also a certain piquancy to the vision of the gambler outside the church . |
| 8 | This autobiographical slant not only adds a further dimension to an understanding of the novel as a " balance sheet " . |
| 9 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 10 | An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set . |
| 11 | In Chapter I , we emphasised that the discourse analyst necessarily takes a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use . |
| 12 | If a " Rule 72 " transfer of unregistered land is used , the Registry only requires the original document to be lodged ( except when fresh restrictive covenants are imposed ) without a copy ; but it 's still the preferred method ( and recommended by the Law Society ) to lodge with the original transfer a certified copy , when the copy will be returned with the new land certificate . |
| 13 | Davidson rightly enjoins the radical interpreter to be nasty in thinking up as many competing interpretations of observed behaviour as possible . |
| 14 | This perhaps gives a special force to the Voltairean remark about the function of language being to conceal thought . |
| 15 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 16 | She does not discuss de Beauvoir 's philosophical writings in the same depth , though unsurprisingly devotes a large section to the writing and reception of The Second Sex . |
| 17 | For a start , there is more power available and the larger speaker obviously lends a great deal to the 30 's overall performance . |
| 18 | As such it not only rejects the analytical approach to law as a form of sanctioned command or rule , unless sanction is taken to include the force of acceptable self-interest in the absence of humanly-contrived threats designed to alter behaviour . |
| 19 | The fact that the employer ‘ only sells a patented product to one customer and therefore [ the employer 's ] existence depends on sales of that product does not mean that the patent is of any benefit . ’ |
| 20 | As the University 's commercial arm , UnivEd not only makes a major contribution to the University 's finances , but also enhances Edinburgh 's position as an international centre of excellence in teaching and research . |
| 21 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 22 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 23 | The fetch phase involves extracting the contents of the store location referred to by the program counter , and decoding it into an operation code portion , specifying an operation to be carried out , and an operand portion , specifying a store address ( whose numeric value we will indicate as The program counter is then incremented by one , to point to the next store location in sequence , since this normally holds the next instruction to be executed . |
| 24 | ‘ Just needs a good talking to . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Pythagoras scarcely typifies the Greek reaction to the growth of learning ’ ( 1968 , p. 11 ) . |
| 26 | Although using hydrogel lenses to administer medication increases the bioavailability of the drug and thus allows a lower dose to be given , the treatment is expensive and problems may arise if long periods of extended wear are necessary . |
| 27 | Since the price system achieves Pareto efficiency by inducing each individual to equate marginal cost or marginal benefit to the price received or paid , and hence to one another , taxes that imply that buyers and sellers face different prices ensure that the marginal cost to a seller no longer equals the marginal benefit to a buyer . |
| 28 | This just requires the raw difference to be multiplied by 24 . |
| 29 | ( Sidgwick thus avoids the naturalistic fallacy to be considered in the next chapter . ) |
| 30 | ‘ JA Ashton already seems a real person to our marketing team and new services are designed with his or her needs in mind , ’ said Ian Martin , Girobank 's head of marketing . |