Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 2 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 3 | Theodora had passed none of that on to the Archdeacon , and he had himself offered no judgement . |
| 4 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 5 | Er again on the national level , if you think there 's a , a campaign you wan na be involved in or wan na get started I 'll put that on to the area N U S who will , if it 's a credible case , will put it forward to the National Executive . |
| 6 | What my pals wanted and I put that on to the pitch . |
| 7 | A striking feature of these statistics is the high proportion of youth unemployment , due mostly to the decline in job opportunities for young people during the recession . |
| 8 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 9 | The Act provides that there is no liability under this head for damage which is due wholly to the fault of the person suffering it and that contributory negligence is a partial defence . |
| 10 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 11 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 12 | Erm , would the er spokesman not agree that there is a crisis in secure accommodation in Leicestershire at the moment due entirely to the stance of the Labour and Liberal parties on this authority . |
| 13 | This massive loss of forest is by no means due entirely to the timber industry , there being other contributory factors such as conversion of land for urbanisation , agriculture , and increase in domestic animals associated with human populations . |
| 14 | H how would you balance that out back to the date that you 're talking about ? |
| 15 | Take that along to the hospital . ’ |
| 16 | Bracken scratched her tender skin , but she was barely aware of it , her every nerve ending alive only to the man touching her with such consummate skill . |
| 17 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 18 | Just one Peter yes , but we 'll put that down to the going I think , we 'll have to put it down to something , so we 'll put it down to the going . |
| 19 | The rest is all ironing so we take that down to the ironing basket . |
| 20 | To get from Earls Court to Southwark Park Road you take the District line tube to Embankment , You change onto the Bakerloo and catch that down to the Elephant . |
| 21 | French mangers put that down to the expertise of the English workers . |
| 22 | Kylie said she got on better with men than women , but put that down to the fact that the three guys in question were the ones she most closely worked with on the series . |
| 23 | Women are twice as likely as men to get skin cancer and experts put that down to the fact that we 're more fond of sunbathing . |
| 24 | In other words communism under freedom is possible only to the extent that people are motivated by non-economic rewards . |
| 25 | In fact if it was dry down to the band they would near take it in by that time , you with the bands round the middle ? |
| 26 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 27 | Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay . |
| 28 | Delay due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the actions of the defendant himself should never be the foundation for a stay . |
| 29 | There is some indication that the Government would like to put this on to the back burner , in order to concentrate the minds of schools on reportable results and market performance . |
| 30 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |