Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 2 | Specifically , this means not only taking into account man 's obvious close evolutionary ties with the chimpanzee and gorilla , but also his rather less obvious resemblance to another primate , the gelada baboon . |
| 3 | These modes of thought are so deeply embedded in the collective conscious that ten years after the amalgamations , when the chief constable ( from the south ) replaced the flat cap with helmets , a number of ex-city men could not discuss the impending change without exhibiting distress and described this event as being something of an Armageddon , even though the expensive guard-style cap of the pre-amalgamation days had long since given way to what was always derided as ‘ a cheap and nasty alternative ’ . |
| 4 | My mother could n't understand it , but her rage and jealousy had long since given way to contempt and the occasional satisfaction of genuine sympathy . |
| 5 | In short , while there is a redistributive effect through benefits there is a much less progressive pattern to this than might be expected . |
| 6 | If the Christian continuum provided hope for the regenerate individual , it offered a much less satisfying answer to the more general question that had perplexed Job and so many others : why was there so much evil in the world that the Lord had made and seen to be good ? |
| 7 | The theory is worked out with a perhaps necessarily cavalier attitude to traditional assumptions , including those relating to the chronology of the plays . |
| 8 | In an interview in the Observer , granted in somewhat sinister proximity to the election , the then home secretary questioned the status of Radios 1 , 2 , 3 and 5 ; averred that BBC TV should stop attempting to ‘ do everything ’ ; and advocated a search for additional revenue from subscription and advertising . |
| 9 | Tam Dalyell 's views on the Brandt Commission 's second report ( Forum , 7 April , p 40 ) are perhaps just another addition to the literature on the subject . |
| 10 | RIGHT It s all just routine magic to the little girl whose words spoken into the microphone call up a coloured image on screen . |
| 11 | I hope that another place will have a perhaps more inspired attitude to these matters . |
| 12 | Structuralism was able to use the nouveaux romanciers denial of an autobiographical motivation and its allocation of an apparently more active role to the reader as an illustration of the ‘ death of the author ’ criterion , while the difficult question of referentiality would be echoed by many of the novelists themselves in critical debate . |
| 13 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
| 14 | ‘ We must stress that , compared with coal imports , the rush to invest in new gas-fired power stations is a much more serious threat to pits and jobs ’ British Coal chief executive Neil Clarke . |
| 15 | It has left society with the obligation to give much more serious thought to adjusting the street environment rather than concentrating on adjusting the behaviour of the user . |
| 16 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 17 | This is a much more imposing witness to that paladin 's strength of arm than the Pas de Roland near Itxassou . |
| 18 | A FEW days ago one of your correspondents gave a much more reasonable answer to the bus stop question use Tubwell Row . |
| 19 | Well , you see , it 's easier for me to sit here , and to pontificate , and therefore your questions were well put , erm , we can demonstrate , I think a much more effective approach to the environment in in our field , because er , we 're dealing with chemicals which we have some control over , and which exists to some small degree in air , air machines . |
| 20 | There was a much more cautious response to the Beveridge proposals among politicians and administrators . |
| 21 | Consequently modern elite theory bifurcates between an account which follows the democratic elitist line initiated by Weber and a radical elite theory account which adopts a much more critical approach to administrative power . |
| 22 | Techniques " at the bell " are four ( 1 ) living with the headlines and main outlines of your subject by the use of swot cards ; ( 2 ) rehearsing old papers ( or papers concocted from textbook examples ) under examination conditions , with the deliberate aim of making these conditions so familiar that you will be at ease — with the " this-is-old-hat-to-me " feeling in the examination room ; ( 3 ) listening with a much more critical ear to your tutor and to the lecturer — especially if he is also the examiner ; |
| 23 | Meanwhile , however , there is a much more radical objection to the whole presumption that science is the search for necessities . |
| 24 | The practical reason why it is wise in the long term to give much more careful thought to river and wetland management is that drainage can contain , profoundly , the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 25 | Whitford 's view is that Irigaray 's work has been read out of context , and that we need to give much more careful attention to the psychoanalytic dimension of her thought . |
| 26 | The false starts of the last couple of years have forced a much more flexible approach to budgeting , management of the supply chain , staff scheduling and so on . |
| 27 | The description of BSL as an inflecting language would allow , and indeed predict , a much more flexible approach to the construction and use of propositions . |
| 28 | As promised in the citizens charter , we shall shortly publish a White Paper which encourages and makes possible a much more open attitude to the buying of services in the public sector . |
| 29 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 30 | Sir Anthony paid tribute to the progress John Maltby had made in steering AEA to a much more commercial approach to business . |