Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Banbridge put themselves within touching distance of their first title since 1988 owes much to their battling qualities . |
| 2 | The striking exception among the super-egos is Professor Charles Handy , a modest and witty Irishman with a spiritual perspective which owes much to his four years as warden of St George 's House in Windsor Castle , a private study and conference centre in the UK concerned with ethics and values in society . |
| 3 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 4 | Labour MPs are now , of course , thrashing through the business of submitting themselves winsomely to their local parties . |
| 5 | Most people derive satisfaction from exhibiting their bodies , or parts of their bodies , to others ; especially to their sexual partners . |
| 6 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 7 | ‘ The critic , I hold , should be loyal enough to his own impressions to confess to what is probably due to his own defects . |
| 8 | The exhibition is the work of Charlotte Gere , who has written its exhaustive catalogue , investigating the rooms ' contents down to their present whereabouts and the attribution of paintings . |
| 9 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 10 | Athelstan dallied with the thought of tying each of the people in this house down to their exact movements during the night Sir Thomas died , as well as the following one when Vechey disappeared , but realised the futility of it . |
| 11 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 12 | Strip the argument for boxing down to its bare elements and you find Leonard producing exactly the fight required . |
| 13 | The truck was bare down to its wooden boards . |
| 14 | The rock undeniably looks like a mother nodding down to her two children . |
| 15 | His eyes rested on her beautifully shaped mouth , then went up to her eyes and held her look steadily before he flicked his glance down to her sensible shoes . |
| 16 | The man who has achieved that — and has record profits of $4.8bn in 1988 to prove it — is the GM chairman Roger Smith , hardly a charismatic revolutionary , but rather the quintessential GM company man down to his sober suits and clean-cut features . |
| 17 | He 's a climber right down to his grit-scoured fingertips . |
| 18 | Without waiting for an answer to this , he turned on his heel and went down to his waiting pupils . |
| 19 | He touched her arm , beckoning her down to his glittering eyes , and asked in a rattled whisper , ‘ Miz Boss Lady , you like see Joy 's cock ? ’ and was nearly knocked over by her abrupt straightening . |
| 20 | How cheering it is to read the assurance of that humane , decent and democratic socialist George Orwell that , when down to his last pennies , he would always spend them on tobacco rather than food . |
| 21 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 22 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 23 | ‘ I can only think it 's down to our Gabbichi cardigans , ’ he laughs . |
| 24 | Accordingly , courses range over syntactic and phonological structure , and both temporal and spatial variation , embracing all the major stages of the language , from its Anglo-Saxon origins down to our own times . |
| 25 | Soon we were down to our last lumps of coal . |
| 26 | How should you get down to your actual studies ? |
| 27 | It is is my intention to have a look through that and see if I can delegate any of those down to your good selves . |
| 28 | For further details and entry forms , head down to your local retailers . |
| 29 | To obtain a free camera take any film along to your nearest Supasnaps branch for standard overnight film processing . |
| 30 | In all these ways ‘ Sweet William 's Ghost ’ is analogous to The Lord of the Rings , and even more so to its embedded songs and verses . |