Example sentences of "[adv] the [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Possibly the answer to this question may be found in the recovery of population , and the renewal of pressure on available land . |
| 12 | Aspects of the institutional framework of Japanese enterprises developed in the pre-war era , notably the tendency to extensive networking within the zaibatsu . |
| 13 | The most important safeguard is probably the entitlement to legal advice ; this is also the one that may be most inconvenient for the police . |
| 14 | Clearly the key to economic success is to control not the supply of money , but the supply of central bankers . |
| 15 | All too often the answer to that question is " No " . |
| 16 | In the two years following the return to civilian rule the activity of a considerable number of the news media became increasingly partisan . |
| 17 | Nevertheless in some of the most important European States social status became increasingly the passport to military rank as the century progressed . |
| 18 | Well the answer to that question , he supposed , was that there would n't be an overseas Corporation to worry about . |
| 19 | If the petition relates to debts due to different creditors , then the debt to each creditor must be the subject of separate verification . |
| 20 | If , as the theory of heterosexism suggested , the origins of homosexual oppression are social , then the solution to that oppression will also be social . |
| 21 | If these economies are also those with existing substantial disparities in regional prosperity then the transition to monetary union might well serve to aggravate the relative position of the latter , in that any reduction in national income arising from the processes outlined above is itself likely to have a disproportionately large effect on the disadvantaged regions of those countries . |
| 22 | His early childhood was unremarkable , and his education followed the usual well-worn path of youngsters struggling to adulthood in the austere days of the depressed ‘ 30s : local authority primary education then the progression to High School . |
| 23 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 24 | Once again the key to this question is to apply positive thinking . |
| 25 | Ultimately the answer to heavy reservation pressure is for selectors to keep their nerve , and refuse to over-provide in a way which will prejudice other elements of the stock used by larger sections of the community . |
| 26 | John Birt is absolutely the key to that strategy . ’ |