Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather nearer to his employer 's family seat were the marshes of the Wealdmoors , just north of Telford and Wellington in Shropshire , which Loch set about draining with a will . |
| 2 | I may say that my recovery is wholly due to your organisation 's producing some penicillin just in time , ’ she added . |
| 3 | The general feeling is that the narrator , although acutely alive to his environment , is detached and powerless in the face of its immensity . |
| 4 | And this shows how much they love Lord Frith , for of all the animals they are the most responsive to his warmth and brightness . |
| 5 | It is not altogether clear to what extent these figures reflect high non-completion rates , particularly in the first year , or whether they reflect continuing problems which some groups of students experience throughout their careers in higher education . |
| 6 | She also made a point of keeping in touch with every woman who fostered a baby from the Foundling Hospital as the charity was so dear to her husband 's heart . |
| 7 | He had closed businesses down before , but never so publicly , and the fact that it was a project so dear to his heart wounded even more . |
| 8 | His insistence on sexual matters could not be merely attributable to his calling , since not all doctors carried on like that . |
| 9 | Didi , who 'd been so pleasant to her face and so vitriolic behind her back . |
| 10 | The development agreement requires that we complete the scheme by the thirty first of March nineteen ninety seven er obviously subjective to your support and funding i in the corporation . |
| 11 | I was so used to his bullying that I never thought of hitting him back . |
| 12 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 13 | He was twenty-seven and in good shape except for a slight hollowing in the cheeks , obviously due to his hospitalization . |
| 14 | Churchill had been thinking of delaying his resignation , even if defeated , until after the weekend ; but the results were so devastating to his party that on the very evening of the declaration of most of them — 26 July — he decided to go to the palace , resign his commission as Prime Minister , and invite the King to send for Attlee . |
| 15 | Since it was fed with steaks served in gold-plated bowls , the creature presumably regarded a dog 's life in Romania as greatly preferable to its existence in Britain . ) |
| 16 | as his friends used to call him ) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks ; it was only due to his mother 's great love for her child that he did survive . |
| 17 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 18 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 19 | It is , though , not entirely clear to what extent they were liable for tax collection and assessment . |
| 20 | At the Tory Party conference in 1958 there was discussion about ‘ this sudden increase in crime and brutality which is so foreign to our nature and our country ’ . |
| 21 | By contrast with the unprecedented alarms of the late 1970s , ‘ the disturbing increase in criminal offences ’ was on the Tory Party agenda , and so was ‘ this sudden increase in crime and brutality which is so foreign to our nature and our country ’ . |
| 22 | The last thing Akhenaten ever taught was vengeance : the idea was so foreign to his nature that he would never have entertained the thought . |
| 23 | Will a European perspective be interesting to an American audience , and would an American perspective be greatly different to his plan ? |
| 24 | In other words , the medium is not entirely transparent to its object . |
| 25 | His first novel , Grimus , was followed by Midnight 's Children , massive sprawling tale , entirely apposite to its subject , India . |
| 26 | Few contemporary feminists would consider the Bible sufficiently central to our oppression to be worthy of this sort of attack . |
| 27 | And we 've seen , we 've seen the commitment to Local Government , have n't we , on the planning application on the , where two local Councillors , two Labour Councillors , sitting there , listened so much to their electorate that they abstain when it comes up to the vote ? |
| 28 | Because , of course , it was Liz 's old home as well , and she knew it would mean so much to her cousin to be able to bring up her children in such peaceful surroundings . |
| 29 | This inevitably makes MI5 seem impersonal , and hides the varied character traits and prejudices which contributed so much to its ethos and efficiency ( or lack of it ) . |
| 30 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |