Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one satisfied , and looking forward eagerly to future developments , they cut up the hare and called Farquhar in . |
| 2 | Some schools looked forward eagerly to whole-school involvement in health : |
| 3 | Isolated horses can develop depression , over-excitability or an inability to relate sensibly to other horses . |
| 4 | J happen somewhere , and the spaces must relate sensibly to convenient use . |
| 5 | Generally rare in polar regions , where sea ice inhibits their settlement , they are often plentiful on subpolar shores where they may be exposed twice daily to six-hourly spells of near-freezing sea temperatures , alternating with similar spells of very much lower air temperatures . |
| 6 | Arguably , Jung 's psychology ( one which appears to link better to collective experience and social relations ) is in some respects a departure for a new sociology which is more sensitive to the relationship between the individual and society and to ‘ moral careers ’ . |
| 7 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 8 | Young fish adapt better to new conditions and while you may not be able to start breeding from them next week they will often produce better results in the long term . |
| 9 | The parent , too , may seek a " better " child , who is able to respond better to parental effort . |
| 10 | But these hot summer nights lend themselves better to cold lager and I felt more at ease with the Schonbrau Original Premium Pilsener lager , very dry and good value at £3.99 for four cans . |
| 11 | But these hot summer nights lend themselves better to cold lager and I felt more at ease with the Original Premium Pilsener lager , very dry and good value at £3.99 for four cans . |
| 12 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 13 | All three seem to have in mind both the riveting political events of November 1990 and the concurrent BBC adaptation of Michael Dobbs ' House of Cards , which owed much to Shakespearian tragedy . |
| 14 | In style it owed much to Ancient Rome but was not only a copy of it ; it showed Byzantine influence and also new ideas , adapting itself to its own period . |
| 15 | The latter owed much to research by Schumm and his students and is reviewed further in chapter 8 ( p. 172 ) whereas the other themes owed much to increasing knowledge of , and dependence upon , hydrology . |
| 16 | First , it is content-free , so can offer much to other subject teachers . |
| 17 | Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers . |
| 18 | At the same time , this belief in British national strength owed much to short-term factors . |
| 19 | Surely both vase-paintings and metopes ( which run over the middle and later decades of the century ) owe much to great wall-paintings in Corinth . |
| 20 | The room itself owed much to Ixibatabian fashion , being decorated in deep reds , terra cotta , and ochre yellow . |
| 21 | Later volumes , including Crime and Custom in Savage Society ( 1926 ) , The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia ( 1929 ) , and Coral Gardens and Their Magic ( 1935 ) also added much to anthropological theory . |
| 22 | Although the victory of Keir Hardie owed much to historical contingency and of the labour council to traditional Liberal support , the assertion of working-class identity was instrumental . |
| 23 | But strategy of this sort , while it is a useful analytic tool , does not contribute much to historical explanation . |
| 24 | But Saints owed much to Welsh scrum-half Jonathan Griffiths and the courage and grit of their forwards . |
| 25 | Both the American and British missile programmes owed much to German wartime work on their V-1s and V-2s , which did so much damage to London , Antwerp and Paris during the closing stages of the Second World War . |
| 26 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 27 | But whether directly or indirectly , the incipient bureaucracies clearly owed much to scholastic methods , to the categorization of information , the use of abstract nouns , and the search for system , that the schools had pioneered . |
| 28 | Some artists are using this challenge as a flexibility to carve and curve the screens into new shapes that owe much to sculptured forms . |
| 29 | Profile reveals that new Polo owes much to old car ; driving position good , as is rear entry with low lip ; GT engine gives 75bhp |
| 30 | Far from there being a ‘ rearrangement of values ’ , as Titmuss believed , officials tended to cling stubbornly to entrenched attitudes . |