Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 2 | more or less every day to day |
| 3 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 4 | But he was , in Alexander Pope 's words , ‘ nor yet a fool to fame ’ . |
| 5 | Christmas Day and Boxing Day used to be a quieter family occasion , with family dinner and perhaps a visit to church . |
| 6 | The thrill , and perhaps the claim to posterity , is in being able to bestow a name on a rose that is different to anything seen before . |
| 7 | The United States Congress requested officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to attend an emergency hearing on June 29 to explain the failure of the Hubble Space Telescope and also a decision to ground all space shuttle craft . |
| 8 | In 19 cases rises in household bills of more than 30% were suggested by IPF figures , and here the swing to Labour was 3.1% compared to 3.7% in authorities where the average increases were less . |
| 9 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |
| 10 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 11 | We shall need to study , not just the individual characteristics of leadership , but also the reaction to leadership by others . |
| 12 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |