Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 2 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 3 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 4 | Well on theirs I 'm allowed to give you a discount , I bring that down to a B. The higher up you 're going . |
| 5 | Well I 'll drop that down to a C , that 'd be a hundred and fourteen . |
| 6 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 7 | We wanted to that down to a straightforward ‘ The Chief , District Chief Environmental Health Officer , name , says the Environmental Protection Act would mean . ’ |
| 8 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 9 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 10 | He has two VCs , one from each of the two cameras , and he 'd like to pare this down to a 5 min promo . |
| 11 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 12 | Since the election , officials on both sides of the Atlantic have toned this down to a special envoy , one that would be on a fact-finding mission . |
| 13 | The thirty he had looked would seem old enough to a child of eleven . |
| 14 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 15 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 16 | Move right to a corner and climb this steeply to a ledge — belay here . |
| 17 | If we round this off to a new |
| 18 | If we round this off to a new |
| 19 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 20 | It will be seen that English law does this up to a point , and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3 . |
| 21 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 22 | He had the difficult task in 1832–3 of reconciling his sympathy for the Whig government with pressing for the sort of positive action on emancipation which was acceptable both to a majority in the political and parliamentary class and antislavery militants in the country . |
| 23 | However , after several years of poor livestock production , a record 24,500,000 head were reported in 1989 ; the government attributed this partly to a contract and leasing system introduced in 1988 [ see also p. 36704 ] , by which rural workers contracted to supply specified products for wages , with their collective or the state farm supplying cattle , implements , machinery and land . |
| 24 | Taking students ' minds off China 's economic and social problems through nationalistic emotions directed against foreigners was acceptable up to a point . |
| 25 | From the teacher 's point of view this is acceptable up to a point , but in excess leads to an exasperating lack of response and an apparent stolidity from girls . |
| 26 | The music will upset no-one who takes his Bartók neat , being a wide-ranging display of the wonders of modern musical eclecticism : quite interesting up to a point , a kind of ‘ Hindemith meets Korngold on a foggy night in Detroit ’ mixture , but utterly unconvincing as a work of art . |
| 27 | Unmistakable even to a layman . |
| 28 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 29 | Most failures in examinations are due not to a deficiency of knowledge but chiefly to lack of familiarity with the techniques of playing the examination game . |
| 30 | Although the country 's economy had grown in real terms by 3.5 per cent in 1989 , the Central Bank 's current prediction was that the figure for 1990 would show a 3 per cent contraction , attributable largely to a drop in tourism and to the continuing weak performance by export manufacturing . |