Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector Ghote , I once remarked a little pretentiously to an interviewer , c'est moi . |
| 2 | At any rate , their bishoprics could not equal the territorial wealth , and so presumably to an extent the political influence , of some of their southern brethren . |
| 3 | But an alto would go a lot lower , would go down probably to an F or a G. |
| 4 | An event a quarter of a century ago sparked off the nationalist project that has now been brought so violently to an end . |
| 5 | In moving towards a reappraisal of the demon , through an appropriation of the negative naming , this collection of stories contributes not only to an extension of the possibilities of the horror/sci-fi genre but also to the continuing development of a herstory . |
| 6 | It is important to recognise this , for an acceptance of this fundamental point leads more easily to an understanding of the reasons which caused an increase in the military significance of those who did not fight on horseback . |
| 7 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I should react more favourably to an attitude of confidence and trust … than to an attitude of suspicion that I am inherently extravagant and require continual supervision , ’ wrote one in 1952 , showing his misunderstanding of the decentralising potential of financial controls . |
| 9 | Some concentrate on their experience of the significance of the birth , death and resurrection of Christ as a fully revealed paradigm of human potential , others witness more immediately to an experience of the ultimate and ineffable reality which informs the story . |
| 10 | This leads on logically to an interest in fast-scoring feats — Jessop was a natural choice for his first biography The Croucher ( 1974 ) . |
| 11 | It is one thing to exclude cases like Ibrams from the defence — the gap of some five days between provocation and killing savours of considered revenge ; it is another thing to exclude defendants with slow-burning temperaments , who do not react straight away to an insult or wrong , but go away and then react after hours of festering anger . |
| 12 | Probably closer to an hour and a half . ’ |
| 13 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 14 | She says the Government has starved the health service , and now close to an election it comes up with money . |
| 15 | In a single day , without leaving the ridge , a fit walker can pick off seven Munros and stagger back home to an orgy of peak-ticking at the back of the Munro book . |
| 16 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 17 | Since an examination of the first of these is the purpose of the following chapters , and an examination of the third impossible because , as suggested , of lack of evidence , one need turn here only to an examination of the second class . |
| 18 | However , as usual when one is in opposition , particularly close to an election , one has to shout and scream trying to pretend that there is a big difference when there is not . |
| 19 | But the exhibits themselves contribute relatively little to an understanding of the phenomenon . |
| 20 | Our dislike of late has turned quite rightly to an excess of animal fats , combined with a lack of fibre in the diet . |
| 21 | She shivered , uncomfortably close to an understanding . |
| 22 | These events eventually made plain to Gandhi the existence in both official and unofficial circles of a section of British public opinion which he could not hope to convert , though he came most reluctantly to an acknowledgement of this fact . |
| 23 | But , even if they did , experience shows that people usually react far too slowly to an alarm , particularly in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | Even though there are both specific and general exemptions from this provision it is so important to the client that the solicitor must be at pains to explain its effect very carefully to an applicant for legal advice . |
| 25 | This not only marked the end of the Brezhnev Doctrine , it also heralded a rapid disintegration of the Soviet position in Eastern Europe , and brought the Cold War very definitely to an end . |