Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 2 | Both , to begin , were hostile to the growing prospect of a corporate state where power belongs less to parliament or cabinet than to organised interests such as unions , multinationals , federations of employers , state monopolies and established institutions like professional bodies . |
| 3 | ( The phrase ‘ suitable applicants ’ refers only to ability and motivation . ) |
| 4 | As well as a sound background in Economics and Statistics , the candidate must demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively to potential and existing clients . |
| 5 | Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit . |
| 6 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 7 | To talk of policy in matters of care except in the context of available resources and timescales for action owes more to theology than to the purposeful delivery of a caring service . |
| 8 | NO BRITISH sport owes more to television than athletics . |
| 9 | The most striking Iraqi achievement so far has been the saving of its air force , a feat that owes more to engineering than combat . |
| 10 | Hazel moved close to Fiver and quietly edged him away from the others , feeding as he went . |
| 11 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 12 | Simultaneously , they propose the general liberalisation of prices applying both to enterprise and the public . |
| 13 | Hence , another key aspect of spatial user interface design is that it must seek both to structure and filter human perception of space and spatial relationships when expressing an operation and passing it to a GIS . |
| 14 | In these small manufactories adult labour was confined mainly to supervision and it was nimble-fingered children who , for wages of between 1 and 2s ( 5-10p ) a week , produced the pins . |
| 15 | This is seen as essential to FTC 's plans for a 24-hour channel devoted exclusively to football because of the volume and geographical spread of games offered by the other 70 Football League clubs . |
| 16 | I referred earlier to coalescence as being as an extremely important factor . |
| 17 | He stopped neither to rest or eat until it was almost dark . |
| 18 | Say no to meat and two veg |
| 19 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 20 | It may appear curiously anachronistic to include a chapter on " hearing children read " in a book which looks forward to language and learning in an age of computers and mechanisation . |
| 21 | You know I mean always looked forward to champagne but er there we are . |
| 22 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
| 23 | A third of this group , most of whom have schizophrenia , continue to experience symptoms which have responded poorly to treatment and remain quite disturbed for several months or years . |
| 24 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 25 | These changes were to lead eventually to competition and dissent between the two main providers , particularly in the Eastern District as it was a predominantly rural area . |
| 26 | It was frequently used by statesmen — Palmerston , Gladstone — to provide a moral gloss to a foreign policy that actually owed little to principle and much to the pragmatic calculus of the balance of power . |
| 27 | To dwell upon the problem emotions of others is frowned upon as ‘ morbid curiosity ’ , likely to lead only to highlighting and prolonging them , thereby causing unnecessary pain . |
| 28 | As the war progressed Hitler tended to listen only to advice that agreed with his own views and no one was willing to disagree with him . |
| 29 | How true it is that the Labour Party has owed more to Methodism than to Marx . |
| 30 | Plays handled just that : single one-off productions including , strangely enough , opera , which was felt owed more to drama than to music . |