Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Isolated horses can develop depression , over-excitability or an inability to relate sensibly to other horses . |
| 3 | If you do manage to overcome this one , the next problem is to simulate the migratory tendencies of moving upstream to fresher waters where they are reported to be pelagic egg-layers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In fact , it was the sort of autonomy that Dustin had already won on his last two pictures , and would retain , much to many directors ' displeasure , in most of his future ventures . |
| 8 | Factoring itself is not a term that means much to many outsiders , although invoice discounting has the virtue of describing what it does . |
| 9 | Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers . |
| 10 | At the same time , this belief in British national strength owed much to short-term factors . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some artists are using this challenge as a flexibility to carve and curve the screens into new shapes that owe much to sculptured forms . |
| 15 | The subtle qualities of Hartley Wood glasses , their colours , such as liney gold pink which contains real gold , and their irregular , seedy , striated effects , own much to these discoveries . |
| 16 | Far from there being a ‘ rearrangement of values ’ , as Titmuss believed , officials tended to cling stubbornly to entrenched attitudes . |
| 17 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 18 | Next year the stage and flytower will be extended — heightening the grid by 3.4 metres to 21 metres , and making the stage 3 metres deeper to 15.25 metres . |
| 19 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |
| 20 | However , it appears that this change must relate to certain dialects of Southern British English at that date , and not necessarily to other dialects . |
| 21 | There is , therefore a significant risk of serious injury especially to small children . |
| 22 | We will increase aid especially to democratic countries carrying out policies which benefit the poorest , are environmentally sustainable and respect human rights . |
| 23 | Briefly , Chairman , yes , I I fully note that the County Council will encourage younger women , especially to come forward , er especially to higher grades as they are under represented er , I think there 's hope in the future because college and universities are now more what were considered male dominated territory , more and more women are coming forward , and inevitably by sheer weight of numbers in the years to come they will be er , they will come forward , and I 'm sure we will find on a say , chief officers for the County Council . |
| 24 | Homoeopathy is very safe and forgiving especially to honest beginners . |
| 25 | It is the main medium on which the government relies to communicate its message to the public , especially to rural communities . |
| 26 | It is the main medium on which the government relies to communicate its message to the public , especially to rural communities . |
| 27 | Since then the term is applied to anything both useless and expensive , and especially to pointless things . |
| 28 | Probably not until the 1920'S were the old ways challenged all over Spain ; then local tools vanish before factory products ; local dresses and dances become conscious folk-lore ; doctors begin to win the battle against village quacks ; the lorry — vehicle of progress , especially to remote regions — replaces the donkey and the mule . |
| 29 | They put the greater activity in the market down to renewed confidence and the very low interest rates on offer , especially to first-time buyers . |
| 30 | International relief efforts were hindered by the regime 's pro-Iraqi stand on the Gulf crisis , its initial refusal to recognise the gravity of the famine , and fears that it would obstruct the distribution of food , especially to non-Moslem regions in the south where the war with the SPLA was at its height . |