Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Epidemiologists believe that BSE results from cattle food infected with the agent which causes scrapie , a disease of sheep very similar to BSE . |
| 2 | The high number of sites very close to water can be equated with the number of sites at low altitudes , sea-level and up to 15 m above sea level . |
| 3 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 4 | If the economic and social structure of our community develops in such a way that in retrospect it seems a conventionalist strategy would have been more suitable , then pragmatism will already have brought the reigning pattern of adjudication very close to conventionalism . |
| 5 | In the meanwhile , the British system devised by Lord Waverley forty years ago to retain the works of art most essential to Britian 's artistic and historical heritage will be a largely pointless administrative hoop-la as works of art are declared to be national patrimony by the committees of experts , and then are exported anyway for lack of funds . |
| 6 | Envy was a civilised emotion , attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival . |
| 7 | Numerous defects were discovered in the list of organisations produced by the Americans through the inclusion of bodies not relevant to consultation or of organisations which did not exist . |
| 8 | And any improvements that they are able to bring to the overall situation can not but improve the availability of information potentially relevant to business activities . |
| 9 | The categories and concepts he hammered out in his attack on Idealism — many of them of course drawn from Idealism itself , but refashioned by him — are by no means wholly adequate to serve the restatement of Christian theology , and could indeed lead to the emergence of philosophies quite alien to Christianity itself . |