Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller varieties are usually the most successful , and I would particularly recommend the small outdoor varieties , as they seem to take better to pressing than the larger and lumpier types . |
| 2 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 4 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 5 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 6 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 7 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 8 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 9 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 10 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 11 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 12 | D5 glows green and changes back to red when the period is up . |
| 13 | One vast hall of columns gave on to another as the temple rose in long slow ramps towards the inner sanctuaries : seven chapels dedicated to seven gods . |
| 14 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 15 | Dressed in a pair of designer jeans that were stretched over her buttocks like clingfilm , and with blotchy skin without a trace of make-up , she looked closer to fifty than the forty Dexter knew she really was . |
| 16 | The excitement had been intense and Denis watched in alarm as his uncle went every shade of red before going into purple and subsiding again to pink as the tension eased . |