Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privately-owned housing varies from the detached to the terraced and , for a variety of reasons , detached housing is the most expensive . |
| 2 | I discovered a classic example during my research : the Mackie Memorial Library donated in 1895 to the New Mills Technical Institute . |
| 3 | Hence the manager increases income by earning the incentive payment , but social welfare is also increased thereby , this to a greater extent , and permanently . |
| 4 | In March 1913 , profiting from Wilson 's 1911 victory , Larking embarked on a fifteen week dispute with the City of Dublin Steamship Packet Company , bringing this to a successful conclusion and becoming in his biographer 's words , " the virtual dictator of the port of Dublin " , and the possessor of a profitable joint agreement with the shipowners arrived at on 26 May which included a no-strike clause . |
| 5 | It appears evident that Electronic Arts have achieved this to a good effect , hence EA richly deserve full marks for graphics . |
| 6 | Annoyed with herself , she drew a long hissing breath as she gritted through tight lips , ‘ Really , I do n't know why I 'm revealing all this to a complete stranger — somebody I 've only just met — ’ |
| 7 | Kilakuldilok attributes this to a familiar list of reasons — institutional weaknesses in all aspects of conservation , lack of political will , rapid population growth , and lack of a coherent long-term policy . |
| 8 | Under these circumstances , stop grooming the dog as normal , but instead switch this to a new locality . |
| 9 | The 9 per cent discount rate can vary , but a scheme must link this to a recognised index such as the long term yield on government stocks . |
| 10 | You will see that I placed the two arrangements diagonally opposite from each other , but of course you can alter this to a continuous design around the edge , leaving the centre of the mirror free , or simply decorate the bottom of the mirror , leaving the rest free for its original purpose ! |
| 11 | From this to a second fault was a further 30 fathoms , with good copper being worked above and below . |
| 12 | Myers estimates a rate of loss of species from tropical rain forest at 10000 a year and compares this to a major ‘ evolutionary spasm ’ , but unlike previous ones such as the end of the dinosaurs , the present phase has the plants as well as the animals in decline . |
| 13 | This to a Leading Seaman . |
| 14 | Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard . |
| 15 | Ledger took the simplest possible feature of language — the occurrence of particular letters of the alphabet — and by subjecting this to a complicated multivariate analysis he came closer than many previous workers to identifying particular authors and even works . |
| 16 | If the user only wishes to produce text on the system and is prepared to restrict this to a few styles and sizes then such a device is perfectly adequate . |
| 17 | The present generation of particle accelerators can collide particles at energies of about one hundred GeV , and machines are planned that would raise this to a few thousand GeV . |
| 18 | It is a matter of working at , responding to the detail , exploring the ‘ resonances ’ of the detail and moving from this to a full appreciation of the total effect . |
| 19 | ‘ It is n't always , ’ Ginny said , wondering what on earth ( or in heaven ) was making her talk like this to a little man whom she 'd met only once before ; she hoped it would n't put him off her . |
| 20 | How could they do this to a little girl ? |
| 21 | Normative scoring involves marking the child 's performance on each item as correct or incorrect and converting this to a standardised score or an age equivalent . |
| 22 | They attributed this to a conceptual bias favouring greater extent over lesser extent , a bias that should allow positive , unmarked terms to be ‘ mapped ’ earlier than negative , marked ones . |
| 23 | NASA later traced this to a faulty switch . |
| 24 | A pulse technique can reduce this to a controllable level . |
| 25 | Gorbachev linked this to a broader requirement for states to reject ‘ any military presence outside national frontiers ’ . |
| 26 | Baranowski and his team attribute this to a layered arrangement of atoms — visible in the electron microscope . |
| 27 | You had something that very few other people had and this to a large extent tied you down . |
| 28 | Overheating degrades battery electrolyte , and rechargeable types are designed to cope with this to a large extent , but dry cells are not . |
| 29 | These exercises have helped me remedy this to a large extent . |
| 30 | As the object of my attention I have chosen the character of Anderson in Tom Stoppard 's ( 1977 ) television play , Professional Foul , though I must point out from the outset that it is the dramatic text which is the focus of my attention and not the BBC Television production , and my comments will reflect this to a large degree . |