Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is seen as part of its policy to make citizens more self-reliant , and less prone to look to the state for financial and practical support when they are out of work , chronically sick , elderly and infirm and so on . |
| 2 | I was always much relieved to return to the light and warmth of the office . |
| 3 | In most of the southern States , therefore , the level of AFDC payments is much less likely to contribute to the generation of a ‘ culture of dependency ’ on the state than is the case in many further north — especially in the Upper Great Lakes region — and west . ) |
| 4 | Now the director — like most people in East Germany — is so busy adapting to the transition to a market economy and to the West German Deutsch Mark than none of his undertakings has been honoured . |
| 5 | By laying down larger areas of copper track , you will not only make the copper foil pattern better able to adhere to the board , but you will speed up the etching time also . |
| 6 | I shall be better able to reply to the speech of the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) when the usual conventions no longer apply in three weeks ' time . |
| 7 | Her shoes began to pinch her toes , like a warning to run away , and she was suddenly desperate to go to the lavatory . |
| 8 | Notice that the technique is extremely difficult to apply to the potentiometer divider of figure 8.1(c) because the resistance ratio can be varied continuously to alter the division of potential , and any introduced ratio of parallel capacitance would need to be capable of being varied in sympathy . |
| 9 | And it was not necessarily praiseworthy to kowtow to the government 's desire to avoid legislation . |
| 10 | He seems to have pleased certain customers ; he was once , as he told me , presented over the grille with some game , which , before accepting , he was naturally obliged to take to the manager 's office . |
| 11 | The sawmill is in two bays , with an extension not quite so wide owing to the canal alongside . |
| 12 | This makes a beautiful patterned skirt which can be bold and flamboyant or gently patterned according to the design you use , but it must be in fine yarn or it will be heavy and concrete-like. 2/30s acrylic , Bramwell 's Silky , Bonnie 's French Crêpe or Forsell 's 2-ply Wool all make lovely fabrics . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have told us you were so eager to go to the town . ’ |
| 14 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 15 | While Halliday takes on a new role , David Irwin is just happy to return to the scene . |
| 16 | But it may yield an agreement to establish a constitutional framework most likely to lead to the pursuit of well-founded ideals , given the information available at any given time . |
| 17 | of Distillers MG explains how it has been shown to be more cost-effective compared to the use of dry ice slices . |
| 18 | A busy quay and some ferries make if often more pleasant to anchor to the north of the town . |
| 19 | It is always prepared to lend to the discount houses in the last resort in order to ensure adequate liquidity in the economy . |
| 20 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 21 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 22 | Although the fittings can be totally different according to the room itself , the effect should be the same : subtle lighting , capable of creating different moods but in plentiful supply over those places that need it . |
| 23 | It would be absurd for Eliot to advocate that head-hunting would reinvigorate British society , just as it is absurdly funny to listen to the description of Sweeney 's ‘ missionary stew ’ . |
| 24 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 25 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 26 | But it was still imperative to look to the horizon hopefully , or quit . |
| 27 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 28 | Thus , while middle-class women are more likely to object to the label ‘ housewife ’ on grounds of its low status , there is a general tendency for downward mobility on the status dimension — from paid work to the job of housewife — to be associated with present dissatisfaction . |
| 29 | Has the professional body exerted too dominant , and too narrow an influence ? ) ; the learning process ( Is there an undue balance towards the student having to assimilate and memorize material , rather than engaging in active reflection and exploration ? ) ; and the examining process ( Will it allow the student to demonstrate his or her higher-order abilities ? ) are often more likely to come to the fore , when staff from outside the immediate discipline are sharing in the course review process . |
| 30 | Their work is more likely to come to the attention of headquarters staff ‘ in practice … ’ , as a senior man put it , ‘ only when there 's a cock-up ’ . |