Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 2 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 3 | His voice suddenly dropped to a more intimate key . |
| 4 | He paused in his writing only to listen to a rather attractive Finnish poetess reading a sequence about her marital problems . |
| 5 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 6 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 7 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 8 | The sixteen-mile detour around Loch Leven was much preferred to a long wait at the ferry , and the journey was made palatable by the excellence of the scenery and the opportunity of shopping or refreshment . |
| 9 | During his second term changes in key advisers , the Iran-Contra scandal and Reagan 's growing inattention to his job all contributed to a less coherent administration . |
| 10 | In defence he was steady and reliable even if , in a way , his sophisticated refined play was out of its element in the hurly-burly of 3rd Division South football ; Jimmy always appeared to be better suited to a more leisurely pace than that which usually pertained at Selhurst Park in the mid-1950s . |
| 11 | Of his contemporaries Eliot was one of the few who not merely looked to a culturally united Europe but knew personally many of the writers and intellectual leaders on the Continent . |
| 12 | Thus a normal training time in the new time zone might coincide with night on home time and so lead to a physically poorer and psychologically dispiriting performance . |
| 13 | A minority of landlords commanded sufficient capital to adapt successfully to farming based on hired labour and greater mechanization , thus contributing to a very sharp rise in Russia 's grain exports . |
| 14 | In common parlance ‘ the Crown ’ probably signifies the monarch if , indeed , it does not refer to a rather elaborate piece of headgear on show in the Tower of London . |
| 15 | The presence of small amounts of the expressed polypeptide in the E.coli lysate prior to the induction indicates that the expression already occurs to a very low extent in the absence of IPTG , as previously observed in other cases ( 25 ) . |
| 16 | Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to . |
| 17 | The British consul in Pernambuco ( admittedly reporting to a passionately anti-slavery government ) reckoned that the employer of slaves lost 12 per cent in interest which the capital spent on their purchase would otherwise have earned . |
| 18 | Fortunately , this soon declined to a more tolerable rate . |
| 19 | The scuffling over Patrick 's soul may soon move to a more prosaic level , that of his modest estate and , in particular , the Irish copyright to his writings . |
| 20 | It should be noted , however , that the spatial impact of scale economies will be ameliorated to some extent if the relevant industry/sector is already integrated to a relatively high level within Europe . |
| 21 | Indeed they would have argued — and perhaps with some justice — that theirs was a more refined branch of the art : for did it not demand to a quite exceptional degree a sense of the romance of the past and a feeling for an evocative relic ? |
| 22 | These may originally have been compiled by a Touraine monastic house so that the new rulers of the area could be commemorated in its prayers ; but like the genealogies of the comital house of Flanders , they were soon adapted to a more secular purpose . |
| 23 | These are resorts with a long-established reputation for pleasing , where visitors find a wealth of things to see and do on land and on the water , and can be easily lured to a typically Venetian feast by the tempting aromas of the many fish restaurants . |
| 24 | Such a facility would normally apply to a physically discrete or contained site ( e.g. a single pasture , groups of pastures , a wetland separated from other land ) in order that livestock from another ownership or section of land could not substitute for the agreed reduction . |
| 25 | It is vital that we preserve our own independent nuclear deterrent as protection against nuclear blackmail ; it is equally important that we take every possible step — as we are doing — to ensure that the process of rapid political change , and the change of authority that has taken place in what was the Soviet Union , do not lead to a more dangerous situation in regard to the present control and authority over nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | Imposing a restriction which is true should not worsen the ability of the explanatory variables to explain the dependent variable or , alternatively , relaxing the restriction and allowing the estimators of to be different should not lead to a much better fitting equation if are in fact not different . |
| 27 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 28 | Rigid crampons are best fitted to a nearly flat , rigid sole such as on a plastic boot , and provide a secure , stable platform suitable for pure ice climbing . |
| 29 | The scope of a pro-active search will not normally extend to a fully detailed analysis of a specific company , competitors , forecasts etc . |
| 30 | The scope of a pro-active search will not normally extend to a fully detailed analysis of a specific company , competitors , forecasts etc . |