Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willingness is essential for a good child 's pony , and one would think necessary , although perhaps to a lesser degree , for most adults to really enjoy riding too . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there is no doubt that Guevarism and other currents of thought have been influential in forcing established Communist parties to rethink their role and recognise the need to be far more responsive than hitherto to the specific circumstances of their own country . |
| 3 | Perhaps one of the most valuable assets of TL is restoring some tangible contact with the environment , although only to a limited extent . |
| 4 | Under the present arrangement , single week Championship Series are guaranteed six top-rated players , although much to the surprise of four tournament directors , one of whom is on the Tour Board , the word ‘ guaranteed ’ has been changed to read ‘ Tour goal ’ . |
| 5 | Accordingly , butchers are learning to help us ‘ think forwards to the meal , rather than backwards to the animal in the field ’ , as the trade press exhorts . |
| 6 | It is n't easy to talk naturally to a piece of machinery and your performers may find it easier to talk to you rather than directly to the camera . |
| 7 | She can not communicate it , except possibly to the old woman , who rejects the idea forcibly , " " " That is a new thing . " " " |
| 8 | Although close to the Piazza del Duomo and its hubbub of city life , and surrounded by cars , the Piazza Mercanti manages to preserve a little of the quiet that must occasionally have existed in Medieval , pre-car , times . |
| 9 | Although close to the city , the path runs between two golf courses — a delightful rural setting for work , in dappled autumn sunshine . |
| 10 | As they talked , they came back more than once to the mystery of the three files which Derek had been shown . |
| 11 | The same muddle is evident in Mathematics , 510 , whose arrangement is practically meaningless to modern mathematicians , and in the artificial separation of closely related topics in physics , mathematics , chemistry and biology , which these days are regarded as interdisciplinary whole subject areas of their own , relating tangentially rather than uni-dimensionally to the general scheme . |
| 12 | Equally , the same story holds true for Optical Laser and Compact Discs ( CDs ) , although hopefully to a lesser degree . |
| 13 | I regressed Carol to the night of the crime , taking her back to the outing to the cinema rather than straight to the heart of the distressing incident . |
| 14 | The position is perhaps best described by saying that the directors owe their duties to the present and the future shareholders , rather than simply to the particular persons who are shareholders at the relevant time . |
| 15 | In particular , appealing to the transactions costs involved in buying and selling securities is of limited use as transactions costs are fixed costs which if anything rise less than proportionately to the size of the deal . |
| 16 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 17 | We were all marking time , waiting for our demob , and tended to look back wistfully at what was past and familiar , rather than forward to the unknown future . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 9(4) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 was a paramount provision which limited all other provisions of that Act and related back to the time of the events in respect of which evidence was sought rather than forward to the time when such evidence would be given ; that since all the evidence sought from the retired Crown servant related to matters which had come to his notice in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown , section 9(4) applied and the court had no jurisdiction to make the order for his examination ( post , p. 197F–G , H ) . |
| 19 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 20 | In these , his use of mirrors and simple room arrangements indicated his developing interest in the modern movement in Europe , which became the main theme of his work in the 1930s , although never to the exclusion of other styles . |
| 21 | But how do you persuade the people of a drive-in city to cast aside their cars and walk , if only to the station ? |
| 22 | He happily helps the farmer but also has some sympathy with the cuddly pet view , if only to the extent that he would n't want to be responsible for wiping rabbits out — as if he could ! |
| 23 | There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something . |
| 24 | Smoking was more common among Welsh parents , accompanied by an attempt not to smoke while close to the baby . |
| 25 | ‘ As I 've said before directly to the Labour Party , ‘ You must make up your minds . |
| 26 | He would have graduated from sweeping the floor , running errands and being a " reading boy " in his first two years , to distributing type and learning the case , then to typesetting and if he was lucky to making up and imposition , though rarely to the refinements of display work . |
| 27 | Hats and stockings featured too , as did iron wares , though only to the extent of an annual £20,000 by the 1750s . |
| 28 | ( The same could be said of Hafaz Assad in Syria , or Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria , though perhaps to a lesser degree . ) |
| 29 | Some problems we suffer with other schools though perhaps to a more intense degree : ( c ) A complex site that is difficult to administer and to supervise . |
| 30 | Or , as much to the point but slightly differently , I want to be a father . |