Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich .
2 And this th th this three surgeons go out from here and they do all their research on the various and they operate from eight o'clock at night to eight in the morning , non-stop , using three theatres , each doing a forty five minutes one , and then another one takes
3 Her mind was self-referring and exclusive as theirs were not — impersonal only in relation to the teasing-out of the intellectually taxing problem .
4 If the police made Wheeler feel uncomfortable about who had what keys , Wheeler would simply pass this on with interest to anyone who crossed his path in the near future .
5 A desire to get to London can be irrational only in relation to other desires .
6 I say this only in justice to both of you . ’
7 Danger , as an experience which especially enlivens awareness and is unpleasant only in relation to consequences , is especially rich in possibilities of becoming enjoyable .
8 Serious Koi-keepers should have such a system installed as a matter of course , for if a fish falls sick in winter it will need to be gradually warmed up until its immune system again begins to function , and until the water temperature is high enough for medication to be effective .
9 We have seen this already in relation to Durkheim .
10 Is this now in servitude to the financial markets ?
11 Yet another principle is that we are to be ‘ subject to one another out of reverence to Christ ’ ( Eph. 5.21 ) and this applies to each of us — men as well as women — whatever our particular calling in the Church may be .
12 1.69 The automatic directions provided for by RSC Ord 25 , r8 come into effect at close of pleadings which is 14 days after service of defence , reply , or defence to counterclaim , and are as follows ( material differences in the corresponding CCR Ord 17 , r11 are noted ) : ( 1 ) Discovery within 14 days ( 28 days in a county court ) and inspection of documents within seven days after ( see para 1.48 above in relation to actions in which liability is admitted or actions arising out of a road traffic accident ) .
13 It is , after all , one of the world 's most expensive spices , second only in cost to saffron itself .
14 In past times , Rome Opera was second only in stature to La Scala , Milan .
15 A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens .
16 A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens .
17 ( Second only in fact to the Ferrari Testarossa ) .
18 There are indeed times when a lemon as a seasoning seems second only in importance to salt .
19 The £4,000 All England Champion Hurdle , second only in importance to the Grand National , got underway at Brough Park last night , when some of the best jumpers in the country were on view .
20 They have they have extended from six o'clock till quarter to seven and then
21 The Directors may grant Discounted Options which are subject to conditions as outlined in paragraph 7 above in parallel to options with an option price at full market value on the dealing day preceding the date of invitation .
22 But if the expenses in question are payable out of income to which the beneficiary has already become entitled , the expenses are not a proper deduction from the beneficiary 's total income , since they represent simply the mode in which he applies his income after he has become entitled to it .
23 Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed .
24 The Exmoor National Park had 23,900 hectares of moorland in 1947 which , by 1976 , had been reduced to 19,021 hectares ( a 20% loss ) , 26 mainly by conversion to Pasture .
25 So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom .
26 I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end .
27 The study makes a link between fathers exposed to radiation and child cancers but suggests that this is not due directly to exposure to radiation but to hazards such as chemicals or other radioactive substances which are breathed in or swallowed .
28 Applying Kirchhoff 's current law to node S of the inverting configuration and assuming that the input impedance between the inverting and noninverting terminals of the operational amplifier is high enough to neglect current through them compared with that through Z 1 and Z 2 Consequently provided that A is large enough With respect to the noninverting configuration of figure 10.9(b) , neglecting the current through the inverting terminal of the operational amplifier again compared with that through Z 1 and Z 2 so that if A is large enough
29 If you remember at the end of yesterday , Mr Donson will no doubt correct me if I 'm wrong , he fige finished up , we started the day with a total guaranteed minimum of about thirty three and a half thousand , we got that up by arithmetic to thirty four point nine thousand , and I think we finished up at around thirty six thousand at the end of the day .
30 I rather like to think of myself as one of those old retainer figures that you find in Shakespeare , trusted servants or common soldiers , unremarkable in themselves , but loyal in their allegiances , sadly wise but powerless to prevent calamity , useful only in knowledge to be passed to others or sometimes trusted with the guardianship of a precious child , the redemptive agent of unhappy kingdoms or unhappy kings .
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