Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The muscles of the legs and abdomen , and in many insects all the flight muscles as well , respond synchronously to the nervous impulses that reach them . |
2 | Reporting dealers are also obliged to submit daily to the International Securities Market Association ( formerly the Association of International Bond Dealers ) details of the securities in which they deal and prices and quantities in which they are ready to buy and sell them . |
3 | Oldham manager Joe Royle would make no comment , but his centre forward Graeme Sharp said : ‘ Cambridge adapted better to the windy conditions and could have had a goal or two more . ’ |
4 | That the Sex Pistols , as the principal standard-bearers of punk , should , by the time of the Silver Jubilee , have assumed the dimensions of a national menace , owed much to the manipulative skills of Malcolm McLaren . |
5 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
6 | This owes much to the static profits expectations . |
7 | By contrast , some of Marx 's and Engels 's views on slavery , views which owed much to the classical historians whom they used as their sources , still seem to hold up extremely well . |
8 | Blatchford did not reckon much to the artistic qualities of the old-fashioned melodrama presented on the stage , but he thought the audience ‘ were human enough for anything ’ . |
9 | Attitudes , relationships and administrations owed much to the ethical imperatives of the playing fields . |
10 | This branch of medicine owes much to the pioneering efforts of Marjorie Warren who demonstrated that , with proper assessment and rehabilitation , many of the elderly in these chronic sick establishments could be returned to independent living . |
11 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
12 | That had been some encounter ! she admitted as , regaining the sanctuary of the street , she drew in a deep breath of refreshing air before turning into the road which she remembered from her map-reading would lead her into a series of narrow streets closed to traffic , and known familiarly to the local inhabitants as Strøget . |
13 | It 's like Jenny , like Tracey said Carla was the best at She even said apparently to the big girls on a Monday there 's gon na be a lot of heads turning a lot of chat going on when Carla comes out . |
14 | They relate basically to the widespread changes which have occurred in agricultural technology and husbandry techniques during the ‘ second agricultural revolution ’ of the last thirty years . |
15 | Helen said gently to the little girls . |
16 | Sincere thanks to all the walkers and especially to the many sponsors for their generosity , also to the support team . |
17 | The appeal committee refer especially to the personal difficulties urged by Mr. Choudhury and in the last sentence state expressly that they had balanced such personal hardships against the prejudice to efficient education mentioned in section 6(3) ( a ) . |
18 | It caused a lot of financial pain to a lot of people , and especially to the fast operators in the City who were over-extended with investments in secondary stocks and flashy shell companies . |
19 | All towns drew the great majority of their recruits from their own hinterlands , though a significant minority came from further afield , especially to the larger towns . |
20 | I have often said to the orchestra , especially to the younger players , ‘ Do your best , and love what you are doing , because you are allowed to do this thing . ’ |
21 | With the cutbacks in schedules by major air carriers , especially to the smaller cities , it would appear that the future of FEC is guaranteed , and their Minifreighters will continue scheduled door to door overnight deliveries of small packages between major U.S. markets . |
22 | The ceiling was first introduced in the 1989 Budget , at the then figure of £60,000 , which as the Chancellor explained would be linked annually to the retail prices index . |
23 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
24 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |
25 | ‘ You , ’ said the Robemaker , gesturing impatiently to the nearest slaves . |
26 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
27 | The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points . |
28 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
29 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
30 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |