Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | MADONNA is set to issue a new single , album and book , featuring some of her most controversial work to date . |
| 2 | In the largest and most controversial privatization to date , the government announced on June 14 that it had sold Telecom to two United States companies , Bell Atlantic and American Information Technologies ( Ameritech ) , for NZ$4,250 million . |
| 3 | But the brutalisation of culinary skills to a level where even basic techniques have been lost , seems to me not an achievement but an indictment of a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to human values . |
| 4 | The most absorbing topic to me was what was going on in Lebanon and , increasingly , Iran . |
| 5 | You can justify the most absurd extravagance to yourself Saturday for your line of reasoning defies logic and is a law unto itself . |
| 6 | It 's a rather annoying question to be asked , especially while you 're engaged in the onerous task of tuning your keyboards . |
| 7 | I tend to think of Basil still driving around the West Riding in his black Morris Minor , but in fact on a most memorable trip to Scotland , buying work for the West Riding schools , he already had a grey station-wagon . |
| 8 | It was George Orwell who gave the most memorable expression to the socialist patriotism of 1940 . |
| 9 | Through my mind there reverberated the words from Portrait of a Lady , ‘ Memories of my dead life , and Paris in the Spring ’ , the meaning of which every lover of Paris can echo , even if he had no dead life in either George Moore 's or Eliot 's sense , or even if his most memorable visit to Paris took place , as mine did , at another season . |
| 10 | In what is perhaps the most usual response to these altered judgements against crime between pre-war and postwar years , of course , it is suggested that such incidents have become ‘ more serious ’ or ‘ more violent ’ as the years have gone by . |
| 11 | It seems that existing residents have hardly benefited at all , as most jobs created have gone to those living outside the area , and most economic gains to international finance companies , property developers and construction companies ( see Goodwin , 1989 , for details ) . |
| 12 | Sequential organisation has the major advantage that the records are stored in a logical order , presumably that sequence to which the records are normally required for printing and for soft copy reports . |
| 13 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 14 | One of the most confusing places to be is the lift at the BBC Television Centre . |
| 15 | Fuel consumption is gratifyingly low thanks to the low degree of strain on the big engine — 11.2 litres/ha ( 1gal/acre ) of diesel on silage work compared to 22 litres/ha ( 2gal/acre ) when the job was done by an off-the-shelf 110hp tractor . |
| 16 | Right across the social scale , religion made little perceptible difference to the outward shape of life . |
| 17 | In our discussion so far we have concentrated particularly on the physical context in which single utterances are embedded and we have paid rather little attention to the previous discourse co-ordinate . |
| 18 | The Medical Journalists ' Association 1989 award for the most outstanding contribution to medical journalism has been won by Nicholas Timmins , The Independent 's Health Services Correspondent . |
| 19 | The most outstanding dog to be produced in Holland is surely Mr G. Kuijpers Int . |
| 20 | Some might think this a rather idiosyncratic approach to a primarily theoretical topic , but it seems appropriate to this book . |
| 21 | His explicit sense of personal grief and reactions to their deaths range musically in this vast symphonic threnody from a virulent anger and furiously hollow rhetoric to hauntingly elegiac meditation . |
| 22 | Among the most cost-effective holidays to Euro Disney are those run by Eurocamp ( 0565–633844 ) which sells accommodation in a 130-acre ‘ wilderness retreat ’ where guests stay in log-cabin- style trailers which sleep up to six people . |
| 23 | Mr Vallance said the most innovative approaches to home banking using telecommunications that he had come across anywhere were the different approaches of the Bank of Scotland the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 24 | The French Environment Ministry has announced the award of " green medals " to companies which have made the most innovative contributions to environmental problems . |
| 25 | This is the most progressive outcome to the present situation … the destruction of the machinery of discrimination … the unfreezing of bigotry … the achievement of the utmost degree of civil liberties possible , freedom of political action , an end to the bitterness of social life and the divisions among the people fostered by the Unionists … |
| 26 | It triggered Marr into writing one of his most elegantly moody melodies to date . |
| 27 | And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology . |
| 28 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't argue the pros and cons of public or private investment per se , but in view of the problems that have arisen it seems to me that if the Government has talked up the price by making rather loud commitments to potential voters , perhaps the Government should spend some of our money overcoming those problems , ’ he said . |
| 30 | This was predictable , not only because of natural human frailty , but also because , despite Allen 's initial hopes , there was in fact little political purpose to be served by adopting the absolutist position . |