Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the Sex Pistols , as the principal standard-bearers of punk , should , by the time of the Silver Jubilee , have assumed the dimensions of a national menace , owed much to the manipulative skills of Malcolm McLaren . |
| 2 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 3 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
| 4 | Attitudes , relationships and administrations owed much to the ethical imperatives of the playing fields . |
| 5 | This branch of medicine owes much to the pioneering efforts of Marjorie Warren who demonstrated that , with proper assessment and rehabilitation , many of the elderly in these chronic sick establishments could be returned to independent living . |
| 6 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 7 | That had been some encounter ! she admitted as , regaining the sanctuary of the street , she drew in a deep breath of refreshing air before turning into the road which she remembered from her map-reading would lead her into a series of narrow streets closed to traffic , and known familiarly to the local inhabitants as Strøget . |
| 8 | It 's like Jenny , like Tracey said Carla was the best at She even said apparently to the big girls on a Monday there 's gon na be a lot of heads turning a lot of chat going on when Carla comes out . |
| 9 | Sincere thanks to all the walkers and especially to the many sponsors for their generosity , also to the support team . |
| 10 | It caused a lot of financial pain to a lot of people , and especially to the fast operators in the City who were over-extended with investments in secondary stocks and flashy shell companies . |
| 11 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |
| 12 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
| 13 | The mean age of a sample of thirty-four boys in this group who were to contribute greatly to the later stages of the research was 15 1 years . |
| 14 | The existing common law on breach of the peace has been continuously expanded so that it now adds greatly to the non-statutory powers of the police to restrict peaceful assembly ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 15 | 15.3.1 rights granted hereunder to the other Parties in relation to the Party in default 's Background , technical information and intellectual property rights |
| 16 | So to the major sellers of 1993 . |
| 17 | Sir Joseph Banks , the greatest naturalist of the age , founder of Kew Gardens and botanist-companion to Captain Cook , first developed his boyhood passion for natural history in East , West , and Wildmoor fens , which washed up to the foot of the Lincolnshire wolds , and so to the very gates of Revesby Abbey , the Banks 's family home . |
| 18 | But the question is not abstract in real life , so to the interesting questions of how must be added the urgent question of what . |
| 19 | This introduces further elements to a society 's culture , and so to the potential bases for inter-cultural , and hence spatial , variations . |
| 20 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 21 | This is simply saying that each market participant , in laying his buying or selling plans , must pay careful heed not only to the prospective decisions of those to whom he hopes to sell or from whom he hopes to buy — as an implication of the latter — also to the prospective decisions of others whose decisions to sell or to buy may compete with his own . |
| 22 | And this new form of entertainment was available not only to the ordinary citizens of the Republic but to the innumerable foreigners who came for commerce or pleasure . |
| 23 | Without it , human diseases picked up by contact with their late owners could easily have been spread not only to the other apes at the station but to forest-living orangs with whom they mixed . |
| 24 | only to the new lights by the river . |
| 25 | Given the size of large corporations , this is impossible , owing not only to the cognitive limits of human beings , which can tolerate only a severely bounded form of rationality ( March and Simon , 1958 , ch. 7 ) , but also to ‘ process limits ’ . |
| 26 | International law and the Geneva conventions apply only to the endless cases of aggression around the world , with the US , Britain and Israel being some of the main provocateurs in the aggressors ' camp . |
| 27 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 28 | If it is prevented from penetrating , the glue will adhere only to the damaged edges of the tubes which will break away as soon as a load comes on . |
| 29 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 30 | Second only to the Royal Saloons of this time were the 57ft saloons de luxe , built for the accommodation of the Royal suite , when the King and Queen were travelling ; when they were not required for this purpose they could be hired . |