Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The scope of a pro-active search will not normally extend to a fully detailed analysis of a specific company , competitors , forecasts etc . |
| 9 | The scope of a pro-active search will not normally extend to a fully detailed analysis of a specific company , competitors , forecasts etc . |
| 10 | One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph . |
| 11 | We shall rather return to a very simple geometrical configuration for deriving Ohm 's law . |
| 12 | ( If more volume really were needed then the direct outputs could be fed to a stereo power amp and then to additional speakers , but I 'm sure Marshall have aimed the S80 at a specific player who would find its volume adequate and who , if he or she needed more , would probably upgrade to a more powerful Marshall product . ) |
| 13 | Indeed it will probably contribute to a very much better relationship . |
| 14 | The benefits of scale , coupled with the end of ‘ wasteful ’ competition ( eg duplicated research and development expenditure ) should also lead to a more efficient industry . |
| 15 | Darklands is a valiant attempt to create something new , but will only really appeal to a very limited ( and dedicated audience ) . |
| 16 | With this cautionary illustration behind us we can now proceed to a more complex and interesting example . |
| 17 | Most economists believe that the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year than had been expected before yesterday 's base rate increase . |
| 18 | Let us now turn to a less difficult situation where the rule in section 20 may be affected , i.e. where the seller undertakes to deliver the goods . |
| 19 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 20 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 21 | There are no marks of modern tools on any part of the sculpture , which is carved from hard dolomitic Thasian marble , but this could again point to a very sophisticated forgery . |
| 22 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |