Example sentences of "[adv] [det] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem sad , or even tragic , that so much credit has gone to Fleming and so little to Florey and his team at Oxford . |
| 2 | The ferocity of ants in attack is a consequence of their haplodiploid sex determination : sisters in a brood are genetically identical with half of one another and half identical with the rest ( their fathers being haploid ) , so that , on average , they are 4 identical to sisters and only half to offspring . |
| 3 | The friend said : ‘ That call out of the blue meant so much to Laura . |
| 4 | ‘ Diana 's few kinds words meant so much to Laura at probably the most difficult time in her life . ’ |
| 5 | Why that confession means so much to Di |
| 6 | He is admiring of the soldiers ' courage but not persuaded by their beliefs : training people to sacrifice themselves produces not altruism but a fascinated following of others to death not so much to help but merely to follow ( p. 88 ) . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ I 'd talked so much to Nigel about his thoughts on so many things that as far as I 'm concerned he was with us all the way through . |
| 8 | In their advertising these firms represented their service as one that would relieve the anxiety of owing so much to others — borrowing from a single Peter to pay pressing Pauls ? |
| 9 | ‘ I take it so much to heart , ’ he mourned , ‘ that I do not get on better . ’ |
| 10 | JOHN THAW has taken his role in the television version of A Life In Provence so much to heart he has bought a home in the idyllic French region . |
| 11 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 12 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |
| 13 | They remind us that this gentle southerner , who gave so much to Yorkshire , also found in it a sustaining strength and beauty . |
| 14 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 15 | However , in a recent reply to Weber and Bradshaw ( 1981 ) it was suggested by Levy ( 1982 ) that the earlier findings she reported with Reid may relate not so much to language ( or speech ) representation in general as to reading and writing — that is , visual aspects of language , in particular . |
| 16 | If anyone is to go it should be Whyte and Fairclough , the two defenders who contributed so much to Leeds downfall in 1992–3 . |
| 17 | ‘ Mrs Cecil 's departure was preceded by such an entire sinking of her constitution and by an exhaustion tending so much to lethargy that she was seldom able to converse … and it was a peculiar favour to herself and daughters that Mr Simeon and her excellent son were in the house and watched for every reviving moment to pray or converse with her in all holy tenderness , till she ceased to breathe . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I owe so much to Monsieur Félix . |
| 19 | Physically there 's not much to Sheron but Niall Quinn , his partner in a little-and-large strike-force , has no doubt about his talent for sniffing out goals . |
| 20 | Jimmy Boyce put it down nearly all to luck — ‘ with negotiation skills being very important . ’ |
| 21 | Julian says the conventional sewage treatment plants being installed by Severn Trent are less efficient and cost 10 times as much to build.Severn Trent says it ca n't comment on the seven million pound claim until the court hearing . |
| 22 | Office ( or business ) software is now fast coming to be recognised as able to offer as much to education as to training . |
| 23 | Children cost twice as much to education there than they did in the outer London Boroughs , or indeed out in the styx as we are here in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | Whoever ends up fighting the election , Mr Kishen suggested , royal parentage will not matter as much to Bharatpur voters as the government 's abysmal record on rural development , inflation and corruption and its failure to fulfil promises made during the 1984 campaign . |
| 25 | Thames Valley Police say the trials are as much to gauge public reaction to the batons as to assess their usefulness to officers . |
| 26 | This sanctioned the informal merging of the Percy retinue into Gloucester 's , and it is likely that these examples of men with a Percy background entering Gloucester 's service owed as much to Northumberland 's good lordship as to private enterprise . |
| 27 | This sanctioned the informal merging of the Percy retinue into Gloucester 's , and it is likely that these examples of men with a Percy background entering Gloucester 's service owed as much to Northumberland 's good lordship as to private enterprise . |
| 28 | These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly . |
| 29 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 30 | He had already said as much to Mistress Philippa when he had met her and her rather effeminate betrothed . |