Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wanted to that down to a straightforward ‘ The Chief , District Chief Environmental Health Officer , name , says the Environmental Protection Act would mean . ’ |
| 2 | When the market making arm of the company has run down its holdings , in-house arbitrage of overpricings ( which involves ‘ buying ’ shares from the market maker ) will be possible only to a limited degree . |
| 3 | Since the election , officials on both sides of the Atlantic have toned this down to a special envoy , one that would be on a fact-finding mission . |
| 4 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 5 | If we round this off to a new |
| 6 | If we round this off to a new |
| 7 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 8 | Worldwide underwriting loss for the quarter was $80.5m — representing 7.9% of premiums ( 1992 : $135.0m loss — 14.8% of premiums ) , an improvement of $54.5m due largely to a sharp reduction in the UK underwriting deficit . |
| 9 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 10 | What 's more there 's a full 1 Mb of RAM expandable up to a massive 16Mb . |
| 11 | These samples have been found to be very similar socioeconomically to a representative sample . |
| 12 | To Gabriel 's eye , there was a slight but perceptible air of neglect , due probably to a slack manager . |
| 13 | And if these random shocks in aggregate and relative demand are normally distributed so that larger ( absolute ) values are less likely to occur than smaller ones , it is rational to infer from an unexpectedly high price in any market that this is due partly to a positive aggregate demand shock and partly to a positive relative demand shock . |
| 14 | There was a bell-pull connected up to a small porter 's lodge inside . |
| 15 | Normally , one year would cost £9.50 , which ai n't bad in itself , but you can add that up to a fair old amount for life . |
| 16 | He 's so used probably to a left hand filter going |
| 17 | It was all down to a simple clerical slip-up , magistrates were told . |
| 18 | It is tempting to put this all down to a simple lexical ambiguity , but we should not do so before remarking that while question ( 44 ) can correspond to either version , ( 45 ) can only match the " unacquainted " version . |
| 19 | Certainly , if you 're familiar with earlier versions of Paradox or have been benchmarking the competition , Version 4 seems remarkably swift.It 's all down to a substantial rewrite , particularly of the disk caching . |
| 20 | It 's the mediocre that drags us all down to a common denominator ; … that deprives us of judgement ; … that particularly deprives us of a sense of humour . |
| 21 | You 're right to be sceptical : we should be indulgent only to a certain point with lovers , whose vanities rival those of politicians . |
| 22 | I particularly found the Aldershot method important because what it gives you is a clear structure to what you have to say when you stand up if you 're going to introduce by saying what you 're going to say before you expand and then at the end summarise and bring it all back to a nice conclusion . |
| 23 | He 'd be a fool to let it go for under sixteen even to a sitting tenant . " |
| 24 | Wood Group Engineering Services [ Peterhead ] enjoyed a particularly successful year due mainly to a major one-off contract being secured from Europe . |
| 25 | This Velcro makes a flat fixing — the soft loop side can be sewn to the fabric and the firm hook side has a self adhesive backing which can be stuck on to a wooden , plastic or metal surface . |
| 26 | There he would walk all day , refreshed only by a drink or two of water , returning home at 6 o'clock to a good Welsh tea . |
| 27 | They confound you because there are times when conditions are compatible only to a warm bed yet you end the day with a netful of fish . |
| 28 | Thus an exclusion clause in a contract is a defence available only to a contracted party and only against the other contracted party , Scruttons v. Midland Silicones ( 1962 H.L. ) . |
| 29 | The wonders of Ease Gill are available only to a privileged few intrepid explorers . |
| 30 | The more palatable impression of retirement peacefully spent in the warmer climes of retirement homes on the south coast ( or now the more exotic coastline of southern France and Spain ) is available only to a privileged few . |