Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former is that more or less subconscious attitude to sedimentation which still seems to be held by many ( if not most ) stratigraphers , though not by students of Recent sediments . |
| 2 | Eight other member country governments favoured a more or less automatic start to stage two in January 1994 , while the UK had not been party to the October 1990 decision and had presented its own " hard ecu " proposals [ see p. 37969 ] . |
| 3 | Do you think GM paid too much or too little attention to Lotus ? |
| 4 | In the largest and most controversial privatization to date , the government announced on June 14 that it had sold Telecom to two United States companies , Bell Atlantic and American Information Technologies ( Ameritech ) , for NZ$4,250 million . |
| 5 | THE TWENTY-NINTH annual Belfast Festival which runs from November 4th to 23rd this year promises to be the biggest and most wide-ranging event to date . |
| 6 | A short stroll amid the usual birches , boulders and close-cropped grass brings the first and most continuous section to hand . |
| 7 | Ivan F Boesky , et al , the Commission began its largest and most notorious case to date . |
| 8 | Quite simply Nicolas Roeg 's best and most important film to date — an ideal festival choice . |
| 9 | At the heart of the mother 's fury was the fact that the teacher was a self-confessed lesbian — and apparently added insult to injury by assuring the mother : ‘ I do n't go for young girls . |
| 10 | F-Plan dieters know that high-fibre carbohydrate foods are dieters ' friend number one they are the pioneers of a completely new and more effective attitude to food and weight control . |
| 11 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 12 | Some journalists who favour a cooler and more distant approach to reporting would say that he is too close to his subject ; anyone who levels this criticism normally does so from the security of a desk . |
| 13 | That would be a very much healthier , and more rational approach to land use in the crofting areas than the system that pertains today when people are encouraged by grants and subsidies to do things that are sometimes agriculturally absurd . |
| 14 | The Place ( 387 0031 ) Laurie Booth Terminus Terminux to Sat ; Compagnie Cre-Ange Noir Salle should be livelier and less self-indulgent than Emile Dubois ' much-hyped and absurdly over-long opening to Dance Umbrella ‘ 89 17-18 Oct . |
| 15 | For more than two years , he was chairman of the Czechoslovak parliament , overseeing the slow and often painful march to democracy . |
| 16 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 17 | Mary recalls how they were flat broke and almost living hand to mouth . |
| 18 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |