Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had little private sides to her life . |
| 2 | Others , including the Queen herself , by her own later account , were happy that it was so French and had so little Iranian personality to it . |
| 3 | Normally a control group and an experimental group are constituted deliberately by matching subjects on relevant characteristics and then randomly allocating one of each matched pair to the control or the experimental group respectively . |
| 4 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 5 | The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . |
| 6 | It suggests not only that prevailing approaches to the subject involve the selection and presentation of knowledge which legitimates the status quo and the omission of that which might challenge it , but also that the very organisation of the curriculum into discrete units militates against the asking of the sorts of questions that might indicate that the world could be different . |
| 7 | He said : ’ Sterling looks set to be masticated by EMUs , ERMs and ECUs before being made fodder for that monetary successor to the Panzer , the Deutsches Bundesbank . ’ |
| 8 | Modern secateurs are now so good , however , that professional opposition to them has virtually disappeared , and it is a rare sight indeed to see a knifesman carefully honing the curved blade with his special fine-grained carborundum stone , invariably kept in an oilskin tobacco pouch in his apron pocket . |
| 9 | But then I got led astray , and went and did that awful thing to poor Annunciata . " |
| 10 | Erm , but still getting , but we maybe getting a broader front on either focus too narrow a beam , sometimes it 's too difficult to get that narrow boat to be on exactly the right spot . |
| 11 | Initially , the year was divided into the ten months March to December , the period midwinter to spring being left out because there was little agricultural work to be done then . |
| 12 | The Irish , predictably , could not maintain that test-type approach to the following mid-week match against a very tidy second division side , Manawatu . |
| 13 | Does that one-way trip to the vet 's stop at the surgery ? |
| 14 | While Smyth might be right about the consequence of the Party being too heavily associated with the Church , he is wrong in reading backwards from that possible consequence to the motives of the men who debated at Presbytery . |
| 15 | With that painstaking attention to detail which is always held to characterize genius , Dickinson had spent the Sunday morning before the Gold Cup briefing his stable jockeys , Robert Earnshaw ( Silver Buck ) , Graham Bradley ( Bregawn ) and the assistant trainer Dermot Browne ( Ashley House ) , and on the morning of the race walked round the course with these three , Jonjo O'Neill ( Wayward Lad ) and David Goulding ( Captain John ) to discuss riding strategy . |
| 16 | The stress-timed rhythm theory states that the times from each stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same , irrespective of the number of intervening unstressed syllables . |
| 17 | In a week when the Spectator could editorialise that economic aid to Africa is ‘ counterproductive and profoundly wicked ’ ( my — incredulous — emphasis ) , they should ask themselves whose side they are really on . |
| 18 | I think his pleasure was merely to talk about it in that calm way to a completely ignorant young girl . |
| 19 | I simply assumed you would much prefer that charming nickname to your own . |
| 20 | It would , I think , be appropriate for that detailed statement to be made available to the other parties well in advance of the hearing , to enable the claim and the detail of it to be considered . |
| 21 | While such an approach may seem inconclusive , it is one that allows each cultural situation to be interpreted in internally appropriate ways , while at the same time giving full credence to the psychic and cognitive unity of humanity . |
| 22 | They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ? |
| 23 | Given recent reductions in the rate of personal taxation , there is now little fiscal benefit to be obtainedthough in any case that should have been regarded as an incidental benefit and not a justification in itself for the establishment of such a company . |
| 24 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 25 | That unequivocal approach to the presentation of early Macedonian culture is in line with signs now displayed at the counters of Olympic Airways at Athens Airport : ‘ Macedonia is Greek . |
| 26 | Though a LIFESPAN user may explicitly request whole packages of modules to be only retained in ‘ offline storage ’ until needed , there is little direct benefit to that user in offlining modules , unless the LIFESPAN file store occupancy is being charged via the VAX accounting system . |
| 27 | ( b ) There is little direct reference to this problem , but inferences can be made from the passage . |
| 28 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
| 29 | Such radicalism demanded too much , because there was little popular momentum to be gained from harmony through compromise , once the first flush of enthusiasm engendered by Mrs Stowe passed . |
| 30 | He is getting solid , even fat , and that reddish tinge to his face has become permanent rather than intermittent . |