Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is only the beginning — there is then the budding on to vigorous rootstock to see if the bloom 's promise and prospects are confirmed . |
| 2 | The Tech is funded in this sort of way by the er , er national arrangements and they in their turn has passing that on to various suppliers . |
| 3 | These low values are due mostly to horizontal transport of lower ozone amounts from mid-latitudes rather than chemical destruction . |
| 4 | ‘ Young man , it does not do to appear clever : advancement in the party is due entirely to alcoholic stupidity . ’ |
| 5 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that many miscarriages of justice have occurred recently due entirely to uncorroborated confessions ? |
| 6 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 7 | Er Lewis and Ramprakash there , so the umpire 's view is somewhat impeded , Lawrence in from the pavilion end , bowls to , oh the full length , and he 's off the mark with four , steers that down to deep third man , there is no deep third man , and er he indulges in a little token trot to the other end , but no one was going to chase that or , or stop it by any stretch of imagination , four , the total a hundred and sixteen for three . |
| 8 | 1984 was notable for the extension to the rights queue caused by the British Telecom privatization so that the brief emergence of the ‘ vendor placing ’ may have been due only to exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | But he once explained that this was due merely to prolonged gazing at himself in a mirror . ’ |
| 10 | In addition to his tile business , he also transfer-printed on to enamelled copper and porcelain , which he sold to other retailers and from his own shop in Harrington Street . |
| 11 | Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons , and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells . |
| 12 | US courts which had collected evidence against drug traffickers would now be able to pass this on to Colombian courts where it could be used against suspects standing trial . |
| 13 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 14 | To claim that such functions are peculiar only to western cultural uses of words is plain ethnocentrism easily refuted by the evidence available . |
| 15 | Nagy 's group put this down to hydrothermal reactions and hydrogenation as a result of irradiation . |
| 16 | The rapid pace of growth remains crucially important , because cost of goods sold , as a percentage of net revenue , was 58.8% in the second quarter , compared with 53.6% a year ago , and put this down to competitive pricing pressures , manufacturing ramp-ups for new products , and an ‘ ongoing shift in revenue mix ’ to products with higher cost of sales as a percentage of revenue . |
| 17 | The rapid pace of growth remains crucially important , because cost of goods sold , as a percentage of net revenue , was 58.8% in the second quarter , compared with 53.6% a year ago , and put this down to competitive pricing pressures , manufacturing ramp-ups for new products , and an ‘ ongoing shift in revenue mix ’ to products with higher cost of sales as a percentage of revenue . |
| 18 | The Review notes an increase in the number of complaints against registered auditors , but puts this down to growing recognition of the Institute as a regulatory body . |
| 19 | There is the suggestion , therefore , that the traditional popular religion is in decline , albeit still responsive enough to hierarchical religious leadership to produce the necessary political religious results . |
| 20 | The hairs are transparent only to ultraviolet light : other light in the visible range is reflected , which is why the coat appears white . |
| 21 | The Sun radiates energy over the whole electromagnetic spectrum , but the Earth 's atmosphere is transparent only to infra-red , visible , and some ultraviolet light . |
| 22 | In the week following the decision , cocoa prices rose significantly , although observers attributed this more to other factors , such as political unrest in the world 's largest producer , Côte d'Ivoire [ see pp. 37307-08 ] , continuing dry weather in West Africa and Brazil , and the impact of the anti-inflation policies announced by the new Brazilian government [ see pp. 37312-13 ] . |
| 23 | In these circumstances , increasing energy expenditure helps , too — by which I mean generally moving around as much as possible , doing a lot of brisk walking and speeding this up to running pace if you are young . |
| 24 | Well I believe that the report that er is before us that has been moved erm actually sets out a framework which the social service committee is able to work to and to monitor and I see no point whatsoever in referring this back to social services erm to delay further what is the inevitable . |
| 25 | Mathew was later credited with a form of dry-stone tunnel arching suited particularly to slabby rock . |
| 26 | Parton ( 1979 , 1981 ) and Packman ( 1981 ) both highlight an apparently increasing tendency for intervention in family life to be based on compulsion rather than informal permission , and attribute this either to defensive practice in the context of possible exposure ( Packman ) , or to the fact that social work practice is merely reflecting a change in the moral climate of society towards greater social control of deviance ( Parton ) . |
| 27 | Rather than attribute this either to cultural explanations of an over-socialized kind or to market explanations which are under-socialized , the chapter has built upon the earlier discussion of Japanese specificity in order to develop a power/institutions model for this analysis . |
| 28 | Michael Michael , to assist the panel , after we received 's paper on on on the erm coal workings in Selby we have act we faxed that over to British Coal for their comments . |
| 29 | However , due largely to pro-abstention campaigns waged by the hunting and agribusiness lobbies , only about 44 per cent of a total electorate of some 46,000,000 voted , i.e. less than the legal effective minimum participation of 50 per cent . |
| 30 | In other overseas markets the deficit increased from $2.9m to $6.1m due largely to adverse currency movements in Brazil and a poor result in Puerto Rico which reported an increased deficit . |