Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when |
| 2 | This latter piece was very much a response to Roy Hattersley 's article , ‘ Let's Pretend Politics ’ ( The Listener , 23 June 1988 ) which had totally denounced the programme 's politics as ‘ fantasy as distinct from political thought ’ . |
| 3 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 4 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 5 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 6 | Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers . |
| 7 | We are too much a prey to the belief that if one kind of education is good , another must be bad , or at least worse than the good . |
| 8 | Such detailed concern with consumer regulation and protection at both national and local levels put an unmistakable stamp on the 1970s — and the Consumer Credit Act is very much a monument to that approach . |
| 9 | The act was a considerable relaxation of earlier limitations and indeed , the progressive relaxation over the period seems to be as much a testimony to the improved load-bearing of the roads as an accommodation of the expanding volume of goods traffic . |
| 10 | Wimbledon was as much a mystery to them as was the Orinoco to Henry . |
| 11 | The disappearance had naturally been as much a mystery to him as anyone else … |
| 12 | The present situation , apart from the fact of the American invasion , is as much a mystery to me as to you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But who or why or how , ’ he continued , ‘ is as much a mystery to you as it is to me , Sir Edmund . |
| 14 | Like the merchant — and , indeed , implicitly , his wife — an early-emphasized detail of his character is that he is " " free " " in the sense of " generous " , but in his case this is very much a means to an end rather than an end or a pleasure in itself : Free was daun John , and manly of dispence , As in that hous , and ful of diligence To doon plesaunce , and also greet costage . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid he 's becoming as much a danger to us as he is to everyone else . ’ |
| 16 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 17 | The other ( ‘ impression management' ) is based on the premise that an individual 's social behaviour is determined by his/her wish to create or sustain a social identity ( eg a desire to be seen to hold a certain attitude . |
| 18 | In what was apparently a reference to conservatives within the FLN , he had been highly critical of Algeria 's " political class " in an interview in El País of Dec. 29 . |
| 19 | This matt-finishing idea is apparently a reaction to the regular gloss tops being prone to reflect studio and stage lights , posing problems for video or TV . |
| 20 | I recall hearing Mr Wogan on the wireless , but he was basically a stranger to me . |
| 21 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 22 | So to some extent your responses re i is quite naturally a response to the position you face with your employers is n't it . |
| 23 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 24 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 25 | His vow of homage was not merely a promise to be true to the emperor and to serve him against his enemies , but a promise to live in obedience to God and His law according to the best of each man 's strength and understanding . |
| 26 | This , of course , is not in itself a prescription of a conflict rule , merely a reference to general conflicts rules . |
| 27 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |
| 28 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 29 | The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other . |
| 30 | By that age , 51% have been promoted out of clerical work and for them it is merely a stepping-stone to a higher status non-manual job . |