Example sentences of "[adj] to the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the realistic novel had played an important part in shaping Progressive America and the themes of those novels were taken up in Hollywood as the studios struggled to find a formula for fiction films that would be acceptable to the highly politicized cities of the East and Midwest . |
| 2 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 3 | This is most especially the case in industrial society ; in London , for example , there is no ‘ natural ’ environment to be opposed to the socially constructed form . |
| 4 | The ever-present potential lawlessness of the Weald was married to the strongly expressed parochialism of small farmers to resist both King and Parliament . |
| 5 | Gas prices in the Netherlands are linked to the price of heating oil and have fallen due to the generally over-supplied nature of the oil products market . |
| 6 | If you want to include iron losses ( occurring in the magnetic core due to the periodically change flux ) as well , you should better consult a book having a bigger section on transformers . |
| 7 | It is datable to the late twelfth century and attributable to the earliest named fabliau author , Jean Bodel . |
| 8 | Contrary to the widely believed myth , dementia can strike people of any age and is not confined to older people . |
| 9 | It 's also the case and I 'm not trying to malign any part of the private sector and I certainly do n't want to be the subject of a libel action , but it is showing a tendency to grow in directions that are contrary to the hard won ideas of good practice in statutory provision . |
| 10 | The next step in Hocazade 's career was that he was brought to Istanbul from Bursa by Mehmed II to dispute again with Molla Zeyrek , the latter having incurred the sultan 's displeasure by claiming one day in his presence that he — Molla Zeyrek — was superior to the highly revered scholar al-Sayyid al-Sharif al-Jurjani ( Seyyid Serif : d. 816/1413 ) . |
| 11 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 12 | Single transcription start sites were found very close to the previously described ones ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 13 | Should any one ask how Plato 's discernment of divine creation and even of the divine Triad could be so close to the now known truth , the answer is that he had read the books of Moses on his visit to Egypt . |
| 14 | Sources close to the now banned UDA said the families of RUC officers would suffer ‘ if heavy handed police tactics continued . ’ |
| 15 | Loyalist sources close to the now banned UDA say ‘ information ’ from a former leading UDA member which was forwarded to the US lawyers is flawed and is based on hearsay picked up after the event . |
| 16 | Consequently , they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children . |
| 17 | Unknown to the insufficiently briefed navigators , a strong current had swept the boats about 1.6km/1ml north of the intended spot . |