Example sentences of "[adv] to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment . |
| 2 | However , as they are waiting , Sammy 's estranged brother , Lenny Dodds ( John Kay Steel ) , a rich , sensitive television arts executive from London , appears in a bid to reconcile his relationship with his elusive and hostile brother , much to the latter 's chagrin . |
| 3 | Sincere thanks to all the walkers and especially to the many sponsors for their generosity , also to the support team . |
| 4 | NOVEL-READING OF THIS SORT IS ESPECIALLY INJURIOUS TO THE GROWTH OF THE IMAGINATION , THE JUDGEMENT , AND THE MORALS , ESPECIALLY TO THE LATTER , BECAUSE IT EXCITES MERE FEELINGS WITHOUT AT THE SAME TIME MINISTERING AN IMPULSE TO ACTION . |
| 5 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 6 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 7 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 8 | The company is also predicting European prices will come down to the same level as in the US . |
| 9 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 10 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
| 11 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 12 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 13 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 14 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 15 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 16 | That comes down to the same problem , that actually |
| 17 | Such an amendment would permit claims where the employee 's invention falls short of revolutionising the employer 's position but nonetheless contributes greatly to the latter 's economic well-being . |
| 18 | ‘ Farmers brought animals along to the same waiting room as human patients . |
| 19 | He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk . |
| 20 | Do not turn up with an extra child to be fitted in to the same appointment . |
| 21 | The fact that visiting supporters were allowed in to the same terracing , even though distinctly segregated , was a constant source of irritation to many Oxford fans , and it was often pointed to as an explanation for the occurrence of ‘ bovver ’ . |
| 22 | A senescent safecracker and an odd kid break in to the same house at the same time : the safecracker for cash , the kid to apple-pie the beds , read the mail and raid the fridge . |
| 23 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 24 | Trains on different services pull in to the same platform , and turnouts are installed to enable them to move in and out and pass one another . |
| 25 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 26 | Melanie tuned in to the same image and whispered : ‘ Go on , pick a card , any card , ’ in a Tommy Cooper voice . |
| 27 | Are they in to the same extent , or lesser extent than manufacturing ? |
| 28 | The behaviourist 's second line of defence is to distinguish between knowing and what is known , and say that the behavioural reduction applies only to the former . |
| 29 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 30 | Short was a child prodigy and the outstanding product of the English chess explosion of the 70s and early 80s which took English chess from the second division to second place only to the former Soviet Union . |