Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It affects us directly — a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full . |
| 2 | She bought a car , which widened the range of our activities but made little other difference to the lives of us boys . |
| 3 | Right across the social scale , religion made little perceptible difference to the outward shape of life . |
| 4 | Bourdieu 's epistemology , like the poststructuralists , grants only minimal autonomy to human-scientific practices from the field of power . |
| 5 | A short path led along cracked paving to a front door with coloured glass set into its wood . |
| 6 | Over the years she saw the section expand from handling only one company to its present total of 29 , involving 50 members of staff . |
| 7 | The plan contained no hint of tax revenues to pay for all this and made only passing reference to budgetary requirements and credit policy . |
| 8 | In his speech at the National Botanical Gardens in Washington , Clinton made only passing reference to efforts to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to a cabinet-level Department of the Environment , saying that he hoped it would happen ‘ soon , by the grace of Congress ’ . |
| 9 | Though President George Bush regularly devoted large chunks of his State of the Union address to foreign affairs , Mr Clinton made only passing reference to the end of the Cold War . |
| 10 | Mosley in his autobiography made only one reference to Joyce , his sometime Chief of Propaganda , as a deserter and as one who was ‘ intensely vain ; a quite common foible in very small men . ’ |
| 11 | Hammoudi protested about the presence of United States and other foreign troops in southern Iraq , but most speakers made only indirect reference to recent events in the Gulf or to the issue of Palestinian representation . |
| 12 | It does seem an anachronism that the Australian government could in theory be sacked by the Queen in London , particularly as both countries are devoting much greater attention to their regional interests . |
| 13 | The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance . |
| 14 | But in fact , Jackie had by then given so much thought to the sport , to its rules , its techniques , its politics , its characters , that he was unendingly fascinating . |
| 15 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 16 | It seems doubtful that any other photographer has given so much attention to the condition of trees growing in close proximity to urban man . |
| 17 | Why , then , has it given so much trouble to so many ? |
| 18 | Usually it is reasonable to presume that ( if the parties had considered the eventuality that the contract would become impossible or illegal to perform ) , they would have intended all further performance to be excused . |
| 19 | The new format will make it easier for the person receiving it to pass on relevant information to members of staff with particular subject interests . |
| 20 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 21 | It said that he had a big problem he did n't want to bother me with , but that if anything happened to him , I was to pass on this envelope to you . |
| 22 | We would be quite happy to pass on this information to persons planning on visiting and/or diving in the Florida Keys . |
| 23 | I The committee decided to pass on this information to the editor of Out On Strike , the strikers " newsletter , to use at his discretion . |
| 24 | Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children . |
| 25 | It might not be worth adding a card to a machine which needs only occasional access to the network . |
| 26 | This is also used on some rival d-i-y machines , and is a cheaper option than a spindle lock , which needs only one tool to be used . |
| 27 | A bird would need extremely poor vision to be fooled by it . |
| 28 | The analysis of sediment size distributions is thus not only of considerable academic interest but has highly practical significance to the construction industry , for extraction of water supplies and the production of hydrocarbons . |
| 29 | She proposes to recruit a famous cricket fan Prime Minister John Major , with whom she dined only last week to the fight . |
| 30 | These are some of the reasons why the Party devoted so much care to its favourite but weakling class in provincial Russia . |