Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance . |
| 2 | Virtues are essentially qualities of character which are useful or agreeable either to the agent or others . |
| 3 | In recent months , the physical condition of equipment and buildings has deteriorated alarmingly , due to lack of maintenance , and due also to the lack of basic expenditure on light , water , security guards , chalk , stationery , publications and books … |
| 4 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 5 | Some of the ancient abbeys , such as St Albans and Bury St Edmunds in England , were exempt from the visitation of the local bishop and answerable only to the pope . |
| 6 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
| 7 | As late as the 1760s the ideal government , in the eyes not merely of George III but of the great majority of his subjects , was one consisting of a number of heads of departments , each performing his task efficiently and responsible only to the king and Parliament . |
| 8 | The grieving family are very much in the vicar 's care as to how they can have a funeral service that is meaningful and relevant both to the person who has died and to themselves . |
| 9 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 10 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 11 | The decline in the total number of farms in the Cantal LFA , though similar proportionally to the decline in Powys , is almost certainly more due to French national policies for improving farm structures ( including remembrement ) than to aspects of the UK 's LFA , there is much less direct official encouragement to improve agricultural structures ; rather it is the result of the way the LFA Directive is implemented , in particular the HLCA payment system . |