Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 2 | He is probably right , too , in thinking that she would be far better known in art historical terms had she stayed in France , where her daring move into abstraction was more appreciated , than returning dutifully to the provincial inertia of Dublin . |
| 3 | The nature of time in the British Civil Service as changed , cut up into small blocks covered by forward-looking three year corporate plans , rather than looking backwards to a living corporate tradition . |
| 4 | Whether it is more difficult than selling only to the domestic market is a debatable point , but success depends to a large extent on the attitude and approach of the firm and the personal qualities of the salespeople — not every salesperson is suited to such a task from the point of view of understanding and empathy with the foreign market concerned . |
| 5 | As a result , their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 7 | The times they are a-changing , however , and the Church is doing no more than facing up to the inevitable , as did the Anglicans as long ago as 1968 . |
| 8 | Is the situation so serious that twenty-four hour care must be considered , whether the person is at home or considering going in to a residential home ? |
| 9 | A hovering angel places a crown on Cnut 's head , while pointing upwards to a seated Christ . |
| 10 | Beware , however , of a succession of interviews and nothing else which , while corresponding perhaps to a real-life investigation , can became rather repetitive in pattern and thus boring , even in the hands of such a skilled practitioner as Ngaio Marsh who often laid out her books on these lines . |
| 11 | DUCK HOOK : This is when a ball is mishit and flies very low and fast while veering rapidly to the left , usually landing the unfortunate player in terrible trouble . |
| 12 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 13 | The Cold War theme , against which the collaboration of the Russian and American scientists is positively asserted as looking forward to the new world promised by the black obelisks and the climactic creation of a second sun , contrasts with the political neutrality , even blandness , of Kubrick 's film . |
| 14 | The term 's work was not to be seen as leading up to the audio tape . |
| 15 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 16 | With or without musical gifts or ministerial skills , all are called to serve each other , as belonging equally to the gathered people of God . |
| 17 | Whereas the West German government maintained that East Germans should have automatic access to the Schengen agreement area , its four partners regarded the territory covered by the agreement as extending only to the eastern boundary of the Federal Republic . |