Example sentences of "[adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Altogether , the end of the year , with a very happy family Christmas , made us look forward eagerly to the New Year .
2 ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’
3 The muscles of the legs and abdomen , and in many insects all the flight muscles as well , respond synchronously to the nervous impulses that reach them .
4 Get the tea ready , will you ? ’ he added fiercely to the young woman .
5 Her eyes had been drawn inexorably to the dark-haired , dark-suited figure , so still and silent among the laughing , chattering crowd .
6 The police referred daily to the current price of gold announced by Johnson Matthey and pitched the prices they offered appropriately to the form of dealing in which they purported to be engaged .
7 A complimentary minibus service runs daily to the private beach , just over a mile away , where there is a shoreside restaurant for lunch .
8 Reporting dealers are also obliged to submit daily to the International Securities Market Association ( formerly the Association of International Bond Dealers ) details of the securities in which they deal and prices and quantities in which they are ready to buy and sell them .
9 Although the couple are rarely seen in public together — Lewis went solo to the Golden Globe awards , though Brad accompanied her to the Oscars — Pitt says it 's not a conscious choice to avoid the paparazzi , they just never go out .
10 Oldham manager Joe Royle would make no comment , but his centre forward Graeme Sharp said : ‘ Cambridge adapted better to the windy conditions and could have had a goal or two more . ’
11 Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out .
12 However , an angry or attacking tiger lays its ears back and surely a mere flashing of the ears can not add much to the general appearance of anger and aggression mirrored in the whole body of the beast .
13 To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo .
14 I suspect that Mrs Moore 's sense of humour contributed much to the genuine streak of misanthropy in Lewis 's nature .
15 And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act .
16 Yet the popularity of vegetarianism owes much to the great variety of vegetables and fruits and lower costs achieved by the expanding exploitation of the Third World as a market garden .
17 That the Sex Pistols , as the principal standard-bearers of punk , should , by the time of the Silver Jubilee , have assumed the dimensions of a national menace , owed much to the manipulative skills of Malcolm McLaren .
18 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
19 Each owes much to the other , but one will be the more popular .
20 The glorious summer weather we have recently experienced offers much to the avid detectorist .
21 The work reported in this paper owes much to the similar work for an abstract version of CSP ( i.e. with no internal state ) reported in unc Throughout this paper we will observe the following conventions within program terms P , Q program fragments ( processes ) C conditional G guarded process g , h , k guards e , f general expressions b boolean expression U parallel declaration x , y , z identifiers representing variables c , d identifiers representing channels Lists of identifiers and expressions are denoted x , e respectively .
22 Certainly , his impact owes much to the new advertising methods of his principal clients , Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein — who , Michael Gross has written , " spearheaded a new kind of fashion advertising , buying multiple pages in magazines , keeping their images consistent no matter what product was being advertised .
23 The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May .
24 In fact , the hidden soul within the new sound owes much to the black southern blues masters of the early 20th century .
25 Tending to follow market values , heriots might form realistic death duties , but other seigneurial perquisites , such as profits of the court , rarely added much to the total income .
26 Not always through royal initiative , and certainly not by a deliberate policy , Edward I 's reign witnessed some major developments much to the long-term disadvantage of the English church .
27 His earliest houses rejected the formal plan of the average Victorian house , but his exteriors owed much to the historic vernacular styles of the older generation .
28 The religious climate of the town doubtless owed much to the lingering high church influence of Crewe .
29 The reasoning owed much to the following extract of the speech of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd .
30 Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it .
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