Example sentences of "to [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is down to little else but bad luck . |
| 2 | Second , because the ‘ state of ease and comparative security of the modest sort ’ amounted to little enough . |
| 3 | The Lions had squeezed in two light training sessions amounting to little more than two hours before beating France 29-27 on Wednesday night in a game as grand as its occasion . |
| 4 | British Petroleum is taking a lead in advising Hungarian ( and Czech ) industry on what to do about large-scale redundancies in a country where unemployment has been limited by law to little more than 5 per cent . |
| 5 | The patio was bounded on the road side by a high flint wall which , to the south and east , curved to little more than four feet to give an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea . |
| 6 | Staffing was cut drastically , from almost 280,000 to little more than 200,000 . |
| 7 | They were plucked by two thirds to little more than £2 million . |
| 8 | Yields on shorter-dated instruments have fallen , from something over 8% for a three-month Treasury bill to little more than 3% . |
| 9 | Current Mexican trade with Central America amounted to little more than 0.01 per cent of total trade , due to the high tariffs , lack of export diversity and past conflicts in the region . |
| 10 | Erm , and I I would like to come on to that immediately if I may , but again it does indicate erm , a movement , in the right direction of getting more er women employees into higher management levels . |
| 11 | Religions purvey illusion that with enough effort and humility you can get to that elsewhere . |
| 12 | The answer to that seemingly simple question depends on what Tory tabloid readers might have done if they had not read Tory tabloids . |
| 13 | The TUC and the Institute sought a compulsory compensation scheme similar to that successfully operated in Sweden . |
| 14 | The answer to that surely is no . |
| 15 | This gives it a passing resemblance to a crab , with which it shares an inability to raise itself significantly above any flat surface on which it finds itself , giving the lie to that universally popular , but inaccurate , graffito , ‘ Please to stand upon the seat , the crabs in here can jump six feet ’ . |
| 16 | Most of the time we do not know the answer to that clearly . |
| 17 | He listens to that bleeding stupid Debbie . |
| 18 | The shot to that diabolically difficult green was going to be very difficult . |
| 19 | In fact , at this point it 's worth taking a pitchfork to that grossly over-rated entity — CAMP . |
| 20 | She was n't used to that either . |
| 21 | I 'm sure I know the answer to that anyway . |
| 22 | Yes , erm no I wo n't spend any more time on that because we 'll probably come back to that anyway . |
| 23 | no , no , why you not going to that anyway because er |
| 24 | My Go , wha how did you get to that anyway ? |
| 25 | an and then erm you know , who 's going to listen to that tonight , you know , to see what they 've |
| 26 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 27 | Finally , computed tomography of the chest showed pleural thickening at the left lung base in an area corresponding to that previously noted on a chest x ray ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 28 | The equity comparison operates by comparing the equity capital issued as consideration by the purchaser to that previously in issue . |
| 29 | The numbering scheme shown under each sequence corresponds to that previously described [ 3,24 ] . |
| 30 | It can be predicted from the low binding specificity of the 140k DNA binding domain , that the intact 140k protein would have a low promoter selectivity ; 140k could perhaps function by activating sub-optimally utilized RNA polymerase II promoters in a similar manner to that previously suggested for the homologous PRV IE180 protein ( 38 ) . |