Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This entirely new production , due to go on to the Royal National Theatre in London , remains true to the essence of Lorca 's play , and as vibrant as the heat and colours of ‘ the land of sun and shadow ’ . |
| 2 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 3 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 4 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 5 | If your conscience allows you to say that you really are stuck at some point do n't be afraid to pass on to the next paragraph . |
| 6 | This ensures that they would not be prepared to renegotiate back to the original agreement . |
| 7 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 8 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 10 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 11 | Their enterprising approach brought them profits ; the Hudson 's Bay Company got 10 beaverskins for a gun at its posts on the Bay , but to the Indians this was the final stage in a complicated pattern of inland trade , so that when the French travelled out to the central hunting areas they were able to save the Indians all the transport and trading costs and could get 30 beaverskins for a gun . |
| 12 | But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage . |
| 13 | After seven hours of rock hopping and scree climbing we were glad to slide down to the mist-covered mountain lake to pitch our tent . |
| 14 | At the same time it should be recognized that the Library 's exhibitions in their present form are likely to appeal only to a limited audience . |
| 15 | But , realistically , the book is likely to appeal more to the converted , who wish to know more about the sub-order Serpentes . |
| 16 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 17 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 18 | In the 1950s and 60s , when Britain itself needed workers , it seemed obvious to turn again to the vast army of labour which waited in the colonies and ex-colonies , and whose situation itself had been created by colonialism . |
| 19 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , it may make sense to have an integrated commuter rail service and inner-city subway , and to subsidize it to prevent people driving through congested streets ; but only a local government embracing both the suburbs and the inner city is likely to get close to the efficient policy . |
| 21 | Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard . |
| 22 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 23 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |
| 24 | Is the share of the world 's manufacturing likely to move increasingly to the Far East ? |
| 25 | Although we will clarify it in the course of this study , multimedia is hard to pin down to a rigid definition . |
| 26 | If we now think about a crack proceeding inwards from the surface of a stressed material ( Figure 1 ) we should expect the area of material in which the strain is relaxed to correspond roughly to the two shaded triangles . |
| 27 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 28 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |
| 29 | THE Prince of Wales is due to fly in to the war-torn former Yugoslavia today for a morale-boosting visit to British troops . |
| 30 | Publishers must be able to reach out to the widest possible audience . |