Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 2 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 3 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 4 | This approach thus represents an extension of the hierarchical system and can be considered to simplify down to such a system when each of the superior states are considered in turn . |
| 5 | The biggest problem is that when the clean coal technology plants are available , judging by present progress , the British coal industry will be run down to such an extent that it will not be able to meet the demand from the plants . |
| 6 | I think she down to five a day now five today is it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Cut down to twenty a day . ’ |
| 8 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 9 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 10 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 11 | Reception We tuned in to all the broadcast channels with the loop aerial and found that some sets gave a far better picture than others . |
| 12 | She could n't be at all sure that giving in to such an impulse would have the desired effect . |
| 13 | He or she may be a member of an organization involved with harmonization — the EC Commission , Unidroit , UNCITRAL , for example — or an academic or other outsider who sends a proposal in to such an organization for consideration . |
| 14 | It would be unreasonable to expect the reader to believe that so many professional scientists and administrators could be taken in to such an extent as the tale required . |
| 15 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 16 | Swindon have their hopes of course but for Oxford its perhaps to high a climb |
| 17 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 18 | Sometimes you have access to a text , but not to all the information you would like about it . |
| 19 | The male fish develops extended filaments on the dorsal fin , while the caudal fin develops elongated filaments at both tips and in the middle of the tail , giving a forked appearance ( this also happens in the female but not to such a degree ) . |
| 20 | This is because a reference to a " distribution " in s231(4) is a reference to a distribution which is a qualifying distribution made by a company resident in the United Kingdom within s231(1) , and not to such a distribution which by necessity has to be received by a person resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | Beethoven introduced change , not to such an extent that it would break the mood , but just enough to keep our interest alive . |
| 22 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 23 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 24 | The friendly and unpretentious Hotel Doria is set just 400 yards from the lake , and close to all the resort 's amenities . |
| 25 | Built in the charming traditional chalet style , the Alte Post is quietly located yet close to all the village facilities . |
| 26 | Based in the centre of Rhodes , close to all the activity , bars , restaurants and clubs , the Noufara is an ideal meeting place to have cocktails before painting the town red . |
| 27 | It was similar to an indoor meeting because the stadium is compact , with the crowd close to all the action . |
| 28 | This blueprint challenged the assumptions of Keynesian theory that had provided the basis of economic policy in the United States for close to half a century . |
| 29 | A Sun Microsystems Computer Corp vice president , before biting his tongue , claimed it would be a ‘ piece of cake ’ getting 100,000 units out the door in the next year , close to half the volume Sun currently does in a year . |
| 30 | However , we can by no means stick slavishly to such a rule , for good harmonic flow needs variety in spacing intervals , and in any case we may wish to avoid smooth harmony and have something pungent , harsh , and bitter . |