Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In recent months , the physical condition of equipment and buildings has deteriorated alarmingly , due to lack of maintenance , and due also to the lack of basic expenditure on light , water , security guards , chalk , stationery , publications and books … |
2 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
3 | In the case of rent and other payments of a periodic nature , the creditor may prove for any amounts due and unpaid up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.112(1) ) . |
4 | Some of the ancient abbeys , such as St Albans and Bury St Edmunds in England , were exempt from the visitation of the local bishop and answerable only to the pope . |
5 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
6 | Since the end of March control of Moscow 's police had been with a new directorate headed by USSR First Deputy Interior Minster Ivan Shilov and responsible directly to the USSR Interior Ministry [ see p. 38080 ] . |
7 | As late as the 1760s the ideal government , in the eyes not merely of George III but of the great majority of his subjects , was one consisting of a number of heads of departments , each performing his task efficiently and responsible only to the king and Parliament . |
8 | This stuff , this human stuff , at normal times ( and in civilized locales ) tastefully confined to the tubes and runnels , subterranean , unseen — this stuff had burst its banks , surging outward and upward on to the floor , the walls , the very ceiling of life . |
9 | The grieving family are very much in the vicar 's care as to how they can have a funeral service that is meaningful and relevant both to the person who has died and to themselves . |
10 | She munched continuously on her gums and her fingers were dirty and greasy down to the knuckles . |