Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 2 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 3 | But this shift of emphasis was not due to any direct influence from the Formalists whom , as I have said , the New Critics did not know ; it was due to the influence of a figure much closer to home , the poet T.S . |
| 4 | This year , however , Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home . |
| 5 | Scientific discovery is a concept rather easier to intuit than to define . |
| 6 | And nothing condemned a woman so swiftly to womanhood as grappling with a man . |
| 7 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 8 | Yet probably The Rock relies on a form too close to extinction at the time for it to bring the whole revue to life . |
| 9 | DOS 6 will see it being brought a lot more up to date . |
| 10 | Yes welcome to Talking Sport , good evening , tonight 's headlines ; a disappointing result at the Manor as Oxford United outplay Charlton , especially in the first half , but concede a goal late on to finish as a one all draw , and they drop to eighteenth in the table . |