Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 3 | As Robinson ( 1985 , p. 42 ) puts it , ‘ the FMI merely adds a new twist to the whole question of … civil servants ’ answerability to Parliament' . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Chapter I , we emphasised that the discourse analyst necessarily takes a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use . |
| 8 | This perhaps gives a special force to the Voltairean remark about the function of language being to conceal thought . |
| 9 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 10 | She does not discuss de Beauvoir 's philosophical writings in the same depth , though unsurprisingly devotes a large section to the writing and reception of The Second Sex . |
| 11 | For a start , there is more power available and the larger speaker obviously lends a great deal to the 30 's overall performance . |
| 12 | The fact that the employer ‘ only sells a patented product to one customer and therefore [ the employer 's ] existence depends on sales of that product does not mean that the patent is of any benefit . ’ |
| 13 | As the University 's commercial arm , UnivEd not only makes a major contribution to the University 's finances , but also enhances Edinburgh 's position as an international centre of excellence in teaching and research . |
| 14 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 15 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 16 | ‘ Just needs a good talking to . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ JA Ashton already seems a real person to our marketing team and new services are designed with his or her needs in mind , ’ said Ian Martin , Girobank 's head of marketing . |
| 18 | ( 23 ) above expresses a favourable reaction to the fact that the speaker happened to find friendship where he was not seeking it . |
| 19 | Or do they play only a minor role which nevertheless gives a vital clue to the unfolding of the plot ? |
| 20 | The ozone molecules are very thinly spread within this area but their fragile existence nevertheless serves a vital function to life . |
| 21 | ‘ Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest methods of generating electricity , ’ it states , ‘ and already makes a substantial contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the UK . |
| 22 | The Commons , by its elected status , associates the people with the government , and thus makes a major contribution to legitimacy , a concept essential for government by consent . |
| 23 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 24 | But it hardly offers a long-term solution to the problem of resource depletion . |
| 25 | The line still represents a real challenge to footplate crews and one of the major attractions as far as enthusiasts are concerned is to hear the engines working under pressure on the slopes of the Rheidol Valley . |
| 26 | The property agreement usually involves a small payment to the relevant surface and/or mineral rights owners . |
| 27 | The group still has a genuine commitment to fanzines . |
| 28 | Not yet sixteen , Dick still has a youthful attitude to adventure and the new challenge makes him feel , as he says , like a tightrope walker ; but , to the reader , the impetus of personality has somehow been lost . |
| 29 | The Government still has a myopic attitude to spending . |
| 30 | But such a visit hardly needs a precise purpose to be fruitful . |