Example sentences of "[adv] to a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the fresh unrest heightened fears that the turmoil in Kashmir would lead inexorably to a serious clash between Indian and Pakistani troops facing each other across the Line of Actual Control ( LAC ) . |
| 2 | The development of fully-fledged headhunting firms owes much to a growing conflict of interest between different sectors of their business experienced by the management consultants and accountants who operated headhunting departments . |
| 3 | They pick a path through the crowded gloom inside to a low table in a corner at the far end . |
| 4 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 5 | In 1990 we heralded the dawning of a New Europe — in 1992 we can advance as true Europeans , looking forward especially to a closer partnership with our friends in Dieppe , Rouen and Lille . |
| 6 | Excellence award : Charles Greenland ( centre ) , director , service and parts with Peugeot Motor Company ( UK ) , hands a certificate of excellence , presented annually to a limited number of Peugeot dealers in the United Kingdom , to Ronnie Ross , dealer principal and Brenda Turner , service manager , with Ross Motors , Peugeot dealers , Campsie . |
| 7 | The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership , citizenship and general achievement . |
| 8 | Should the United States , it therefore asked , allow Britain to adjust naturally to a lower level of power — defined by some as that of a " comparatively lesser middle state " ? |
| 9 | In the example of Rubik 's cube , we have looked at a substantial problem that leads naturally to a great deal of mathematics and uses many techniques of problem solving . |
| 10 | ( c ) does it maybe lead more naturally to a religious view of the world ? |
| 11 | six Beiderbecke and Eubie Blake , Billy Mayerl and Nat Gonella can not easily be assimilated , or at least reduced , merely to a preformed role in the machinery of a dominant system of musical craftsmanship , nor can Bob Dylan and John Lennon , Chuck Berry , Bob Marley and Merle Haggard , let alone Joe Strummer or John Lydon ; though , equally obviously , they all , in another sense , come to be umbilically attached to that system . |
| 12 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 13 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 14 | Contrary to the intuitions of the participants , the anticipated ( j ) , ( c ) ( g ) is dispreferred in favour of the following : The focalisation created through this pattern is almost the reverse of that expected , with a narrowing to the detail of the " leaves ' in the second sentence , followed by an abrupt transition outwards to a general statement about the rain in the last sentence . |
| 15 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 16 | When either the supply or the demand curve for a good or service is very inelastic , the imposition of a tax will lead only to a small change in quantity . |
| 17 | Jakobson 's poetic analyses are mostly concerned with establishing the mere presence of relationships of equivalence , and only to a small degree with discussing their significance . |
| 18 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 19 | When John Howard died , ‘ Texas ’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans , American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of , or wandered away from , the established ‘ colonies ’ to the north and east . |
| 20 | ‘ The contents were known only to a small team of journalists who worked off-site on the project . |
| 21 | The objective here is to take a turn on a transaction that is subject only to a low rate of taxation . |
| 22 | However , when the technology has been developed , the R&D may be transferred to an IOFC location so that the income is subject only to a low rate of tax . |
| 23 | Consequently , the defence account of mistake is of general applicability whereas the definitional account can apply only to a limited range of cases . |
| 24 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 25 | Nor does the estate come to an end with the tenant 's death : it passes to his heirs , but only to a limited class of heirs , ‘ the heirs of his body ’ , that is , his descendants . |
| 26 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 27 | The newer antiherpes agent , acyclovir , is of great interest , because it acts in virally-infected cells , but only to a negligible extent in healthy human cells . |
| 28 | If asthmatics with reflux were somehow more readily influenced to have endoscopy than asthmatics without reflux , our results would apply only to a selected group of asthmatics , and selection bias would be present . |
| 29 | This is because objectivity is usually narrowed down to refer only to a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 30 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |