Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 2 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 3 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 4 | This not only produces a balanced form to the plant , carrying and showing the blooms to advantage , but reduces hindrance to air movement to a minimum . |
| 5 | Sometimes we so devalue a physical approach to the world that we begin to devalue action itself . |
| 6 | The arrival of computer graphics will not only facilitate a wider access to geometry but will be , in an important sense , integral to doing geometry . |
| 7 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 8 | It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir . |
| 9 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 10 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 11 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |
| 12 | In establishing their ancestry , little reference is ever made to the surrealists , who obviously contributed a great deal to the contestation of realism — this seems to arise mainly from a dislike of the practice of automatic writing . |
| 13 | As Robinson ( 1985 , p. 42 ) puts it , ‘ the FMI merely adds a new twist to the whole question of … civil servants ’ answerability to Parliament' . |
| 14 | Most humiliating of all when he did intervene on the record he only contributed a further nuance to the policy confusion under way . |
| 15 | THE recent wild fluctuation in interest rates has only added an extra burden to people already having severe housing problems . |
| 16 | One version of the story has Massaccio losing all of his clothes as well , which not only adds a new possibility to the origin of the saying ‘ to lose your shirt ’ , but also a certain piquancy to the vision of the gambler outside the church . |
| 17 | This autobiographical slant not only adds a further dimension to an understanding of the novel as a " balance sheet " . |
| 18 | This idea of the innovative power of movements obviously owes a great deal to the events of the 1960s when there appeared quite suddenly large-scale movements expressing profound discontent with , and opposition to , the existing social and political order . |
| 19 | An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set . |
| 20 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he does report many developments in the American social scene , which obviously owe a great deal to the careful monitoring of many local newspapers . |
| 22 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 23 | The provision of BITE and ATE facilities can only provide a partial solution to failure analysis and problem rectification . |
| 24 | At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say . |
| 25 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 26 | Nearly out of fuel , it landed on a previously uncharted islet , inadvertently adding a new outpost to the Philippine republic . |
| 27 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 28 | A little after the end of the war when people were beginning to relax and reminisce about blackouts and air-raids , yesterday 's terror and agony only adding a little zest to the stones . |
| 29 | In Chapter I , we emphasised that the discourse analyst necessarily takes a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use . |
| 30 | Some vendors are promising that they will provide it on their own , others such as Quark are linking to specific vendors ( Scitex in this case ) while still others such as Aldus are merely providing an open interface to anyone who cares to take their files on board . |