Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his study of several village communities in Wiltshire , for example , Ingram has found that the great majority of villagers did not belong to polarized extremes , but rather adhered to a conventional mainstream Protestantism ; furthermore , Ingram believes it was the youth of the parish , rather than the least well-off , who were the most indifferent to religion and most impervious to moral discipline . |
| 2 | France successfully objected to a proposed severing of air-links . |
| 3 | By 1917 Unionists had more cause to fear than to rejoice , for the Labour movement had been greatly strengthened by the war in both its aspects ; increasing membership and growing militancy in the trades unions , growing confidence in the Labour party , the arrival of organized revolutionary extremism in the shop-stewards " movement all pointed to a grim future . |
| 4 | It arises when an immune animal is suddenly exposed to a massive larval challenge , usually from a heavily contaminated field . |
| 5 | The misrepresentation is not necessarily limited to an exact copy of the name or " get-up " . |
| 6 | Many bedrooms offer panoramic Sea Views , some offering Fourposter or Water beds with Jacuzzi baths , all furnished to a high standard , all are en suite and fully equipped with Colour TV ** radio , direct-dial telephone , trouser press , hairdryer , mini-safe and hospitality tray . |
| 7 | In France , where a new class of naval engineers concerned with the building and repair of ships was created in 1765 , shipbuilding was perhaps carried to a higher pitch of perfection than anywhere else in Europe . |
| 8 | In any case , many of its members in the late 18th century , though not yet necessarily committed to a full-blooded doctrine of ‘ laissez-faire ’ , were moving towards a political philosophy involving less , not more , government intervention in everyday affairs , leaving the ‘ natural ’ market forces of supply and demand to regulate the economy as best they may . |
| 9 | The offence extends to oral misdescription and is not necessarily confined to a contractual relationship with the customer ( Fletcher v Sledmore [ 1973 ] RTR 371 ) . |
| 10 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |
| 11 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |
| 12 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 13 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 14 | Some of their comments , it 's like the untutored eye , they pick out things that surprise you because you 've got so used to a particular manner of approaching images , that you forget that there are other ways of doing it . |
| 15 | But you are so used to an unquestioned independence that you forget how many people do n't have it , people who , in human terms , Christian terms even , have just as much right to it as you do . |
| 16 | Curtain specialists and manufacturing upholsterers , all produced to an exceptional standard in our own workshops , and fitted by our own team of experts who will travel anywhere in the UK or abroad . |
| 17 | Curtain specialists and manufacturing upholsterers , all produced to an exceptional standard in our own workshops , and fitted by our own team of experts who will travel anywhere in the UK or abroad . |
| 18 | A minute later , Sikes appeared on the roof and the shouts from the crowd below swelled to a great roar . |
| 19 | Jim Miller and Louise Wyatt would still be locked in them … maybe Karen Larsen too … all condemned to a terrible death … unless he could release them in time … |
| 20 | Markets in Mexico , North Africa , south America and Indonesia have all contributed to a colourful jumble ; the tall red whirlygig in the sitting room , for example , comes from Brazil . |
| 21 | East Africa , Greece and South East Asia all contributed to an 11 per cent rise in pre-tax profits in the half-year to end-November . |
| 22 | Jobless growth , changes in the composition of the workforce , increased ‘ flexibility ’ of labour 's terms and conditions , have all contributed to an economic revival which has had minimal benefits where these are needed most . |
| 23 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 24 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 25 | A conventional joystick uses a pair of potentiometers mounted at right angles to each other , the spindles being mechanically linked to a central knob . |
| 26 | It is noteworthy , however , that both the British and French governments , with their much smaller nuclear forces , have apparently stuck to a declaratory policy of targeting Soviet cities , and have not made statements repudiating purely anti-population strategy in any way comparable with the 1983 US statement quoted . |
| 27 | Determined not to look at the brute of a man opposite , Fabia was in the act of deciding that she would ask him nothing in future — not even for a ride back to Mariánské Láznë , she 'd take a taxi sooner — when she was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt . |
| 28 | Hence the optimists believe that it is difficult to visualise circumstances better suited to a successful devaluation than the ones currently offered . |
| 29 | Use pattern that is appropriate to the style and size of your home — a small sprig design looks far more at home in a Victorian cottage than a grand , formally patterned carpet that would be better suited to a large room . |
| 30 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |