Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , the project has also been able to localise successfully the disruption to those tasks in which the order of information has to be preserved . |
| 2 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |
| 3 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 4 | Other typical signs indicating a problem with sharp teeth are , as already mentioned , the evasion of the bit and the horse quidding while eating ( food drops out of the mouth ) ; nodding while being ridden , hanging on the bit to one side , ie pulling on one rein and , in more extreme cases , rearing and bolting. teeth should be left until they are mature . |
| 5 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 6 | ( Bantam , £3.99 ) agrees , but narrows down the problem to unstated , unacknowledged and unexpressed anger and a fear of intimacy . |
| 7 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 8 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn has thrown down the gauntlet to much-travelled striker Howard Gayle , who trained at the Racecourse for the first time yesterday . |
| 9 | KEVIN Keegan yesterday threw down the gauntlet to refreshed Newcastle winger Franz Carr . |
| 10 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 11 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 12 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 13 | He and Parker resumed their opening partnership on 119 and added 103 in 19 overs before Parker , who hit 15 fours and a six , jumped down the wicket to Gallian , who shortly afterwards also bowled Glendenen as he aimed a heave . |
| 14 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 15 | Churchill 's ‘ overlords ’ certainly enabled him to slim down the Cabinet to sixteen members . |
| 16 | Then moving down the table to outstanding planning consents , Whelan Road , Eggborough , three point three hectares . |
| 17 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 18 | A further cut was made on Feb. 1 , 1991 , to bring down the rate to 6 per cent [ see p. 37997 ] . |
| 19 | Having narrowed down the list to local companies which promise a quick call-out service , you 're all set to dial . |
| 20 | Perhaps the clue to this imbalance lies in the title Mr James has chosen . |
| 21 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 22 | Perhaps the key to this lies in the realm of culture itself . |
| 23 | erm you end up with four different er types of er reproductive strategies which are of monogamy , polygyny , polygamy and polyandry and the first one monogamy is when you have one male and female and er this minimizes the differences in reproductive success and the way it does that is because erm it , it minimizes the difference between the sexes because monogamy takes the limitations of the male erm to reproduce only with the one female so the male to female ratio of reproductive success the same in monogamy , and er what happens to that is this little in er more equal towards their parental investment . |
| 24 | So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower . |
| 25 | We 've had somebody ringing up for their crossword puzzle , can we fill in the clue to that ? |
| 26 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
| 27 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 28 | I suppose the only the balance to that is to say |
| 29 | Change in rural transport is not only the key to many of the changes outlined in Chapters 4 and 5 , but it is also a central connecting factor linking service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 30 | If this image were displayed using the methods described earlier it would lack very dark values ( 0–24 ) as well as medium to bright values ( 91–255 ) and would cover only the dark to medium grey range . |