Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is only the beginning — there is then the budding on to vigorous rootstock to see if the bloom 's promise and prospects are confirmed . |
| 2 | These low values are due mostly to horizontal transport of lower ozone amounts from mid-latitudes rather than chemical destruction . |
| 3 | ‘ Young man , it does not do to appear clever : advancement in the party is due entirely to alcoholic stupidity . ’ |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that many miscarriages of justice have occurred recently due entirely to uncorroborated confessions ? |
| 5 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 6 | 1984 was notable for the extension to the rights queue caused by the British Telecom privatization so that the brief emergence of the ‘ vendor placing ’ may have been due only to exceptional circumstances . |
| 7 | But he once explained that this was due merely to prolonged gazing at himself in a mirror . ’ |
| 8 | In addition to his tile business , he also transfer-printed on to enamelled copper and porcelain , which he sold to other retailers and from his own shop in Harrington Street . |
| 9 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 10 | To claim that such functions are peculiar only to western cultural uses of words is plain ethnocentrism easily refuted by the evidence available . |
| 11 | There is the suggestion , therefore , that the traditional popular religion is in decline , albeit still responsive enough to hierarchical religious leadership to produce the necessary political religious results . |
| 12 | The hairs are transparent only to ultraviolet light : other light in the visible range is reflected , which is why the coat appears white . |
| 13 | The Sun radiates energy over the whole electromagnetic spectrum , but the Earth 's atmosphere is transparent only to infra-red , visible , and some ultraviolet light . |
| 14 | Mathew was later credited with a form of dry-stone tunnel arching suited particularly to slabby rock . |
| 15 | However , due largely to pro-abstention campaigns waged by the hunting and agribusiness lobbies , only about 44 per cent of a total electorate of some 46,000,000 voted , i.e. less than the legal effective minimum participation of 50 per cent . |
| 16 | In other overseas markets the deficit increased from $2.9m to $6.1m due largely to adverse currency movements in Brazil and a poor result in Puerto Rico which reported an increased deficit . |
| 17 | The majority of alleged perpetrators , however , were not subjected to criminal proceedings due largely to insufficient evidence and denial of the allegation . |
| 18 | Therefore great reliance in these studies is placed on the excavated sites of Pompeii , Herculaneum and Ostia where , due largely to natural causes , the site was abandoned , preserved , not rebuilt and excavated in more modern times . |
| 19 | In the uplands of the UK , broadleaved woods are fragmented ( due largely to past clearance for agriculture ) and confined largely to steep valley slopes , to boulder strewn and rocky ground , and to gorges . |
| 20 | The issues to consider are similar to those required in order for the Firm to comply with the ‘ know your client ’ requirements under the Conduct of Business Rules ( which are appropriate only to non-corporate finance clients ) . |
| 21 | Joanna Foster , chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities Commission , says that while virtually every politician and company has accepted that more must be done , there have been more words than action : ‘ Provision is patchy and mostly accessible only to high income groups . |
| 22 | This is subject only to limited restrictions which member states can justify on the basis of public health , public security , public policy and certain other limited public policy grounds sanctioned by the Treaty and the case law of the Court of Justice . |
| 23 | The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ . |
| 24 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 25 | Amongst these , there are cross-situational constraints enjoining appropriate social decorum , while there are others appropriate just to specific interactional moments or specific kinds of cultural events . |
| 26 | Just after passing level with house ( visible away to left ) , avoid stone bridge on left leading to iron gates but fork left 20 yds later on to path which crosses stream and follows it then reaches road . |
| 27 | Piroxicam ( Feldene ) is an oxicam , unrelated chemically to other available NSAIDs . |
| 28 | A blowlamp ( or blowtorch ) is also useful where a nut seems impossible to dislodge from its fitting , due usually to dried-up jointing compound . |
| 29 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 30 | In today 's accountant-led brewing industry the destiny of individual pubs is often decided in remote boardrooms by managers answerable only to corporate dogmas and next year 's profit forecasts . |