Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the clue to this imbalance lies in the title Mr James has chosen . |
| 2 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 3 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 4 | So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower . |
| 5 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
| 6 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 7 | The generation before the Revolution saw not only the opposition to royal power offered by the parlements and their allies but a growth in criticism of the monarchical regime of a more fundamental and ultimately more dangerous kind . |
| 8 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 9 | Such detailed concern with consumer regulation and protection at both national and local levels put an unmistakable stamp on the 1970s — and the Consumer Credit Act is very much a monument to that approach . |
| 10 | " Less a response to political pressure , more good economic sense " . |
| 11 | Only a return to imperialist expansion could protect German industrial interests faced with political , economic and social crisis . |
| 12 | We treated orthopaedic screening as a distinct category because some neonatal deformations ( such as congenital dislocation of the hip ) represent only a predisposition to congenital abnormality , and surgery is avoided by conservative treatment . |
| 13 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 14 | Even patients with diabetes mellitus complicated by autonomic neuropathy are not necessarily a contraindication to restorative proctocolectomy . |
| 15 | Although it should be remembered that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance . |
| 16 | Although it should be remembered that past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance . |
| 17 | Add together a susceptibility to flashy packaging and a lack of any real interest in the substance of other people 's problems and you 're on the way to producing a ‘ designer carer , . |
| 18 | By contrast , the only Buid words which might be used to translate our concepts of ‘ courage ’ and ‘ bravery ’ carry strongly negative moral overtones : words like isug denote not so much an indifference to personal danger as a tendency to fierceness or violence . |
| 19 | The invasion of Afghanistan may be less an exception to this rule than many think . |
| 20 | Does he agree that neighbourhood watches can be deemed only an aid to proper policing , in terms of numbers and police efficiency ? |
| 21 | And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures . |
| 22 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 23 | Discretionary policy-making at a number of levels in the organization is thus the key to this system , perhaps corresponding in its internal fluidity to some of the features of Burns and Stalker 's organic model of organization . |
| 24 | But there was soon a limit to this process of adjustment : once perfection had been reached they were vulnerable to changes in habitat . |
| 25 | This is not just a bending to political pressure to bring in higher-paid jobs ; it is a commercial necessity . |
| 26 | Similarly with a tailwind , it 's not exactly behind you , but just a bit to one side . |
| 27 | The threat to truth as the goal of science is not just a threat to absolute certainty . |
| 28 | You 're just a commodity to that company . ’ |
| 29 | Possibly the answer to this question may be found in the recovery of population , and the renewal of pressure on available land . |
| 30 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |