Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from random fluctuations , due mostly to sampling and response errors ( the latter are very common in retrospective surveys ) , the relationship between infant mortality and birth order took reversed " J " , " U " or " J " shaped forms in most of the sampled communities . |
| 2 | Mossop , faithful both to preference and history , remained in the car whilst Harry walked up the front path , trying to ignore the ravenous alsatian growling and tearing at the neighbour 's fence . |
| 3 | It is not clear even to Lotus when the new 1–2-3 version for Alpha will be rolled-out . |
| 4 | Particles larger than this are subject only to saltation and surface creep . |
| 5 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |
| 6 | The instrument of resurrection was to be the turnpike. this custom prevailing , 't is more than probable , that our posterity may see the roads all over England restored in their time to such a perfection , that travelling and carriage of goods will be much more easy both to man and horse than ever it was since the Romans lost this island . |
| 7 | I believe that it is due both to privatisation and to the benefits of restructuring , especially in the electricity industry . |
| 8 | I work every day from 6.20 to 9.30 a.m. , he said , and then from 4 p.m. to midnight if I can . |
| 9 | But they are generally happy just to programme and share the pleasant experience of listening to popular music on the radio . |
| 10 | Almost immediately it has vanished , able somehow to levée and jetée through the undergrowth without a sound . |
| 11 | Because ‘ energy and matter are fundamental both to physics and chemistry ’ , it can be argued that physics and chemistry are not completely different subjects , but part of one body of knowledge . |
| 12 | A professional photographer will be in the office today from 1.30 pm to 4 pm , tomorrow from 10.30 am to noon and on Thursday from 2 pm to 4pm . |
| 13 | Such swift and arbitrary death , due neither to weakness nor fault , but to sheer chance , is the fate of vast numbers of animals that every day are eaten by predators . |
| 14 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 15 | Experts have said that the cadmium may be due either to pollution or to " natural seabed reserves " . |
| 16 | Blocks in enzyme function , due either to deficiency or absence of an enzyme ( as in phenylketonuria ) , can cause severe disruption of the body 's metabolic pathways . |
| 17 | Structuralists trace it to the workings of a permanent arms economy , necessary both to capitalism and to state capitalism . |
| 18 | What time there was free was devoted overwhelmingly to home and family life , including such home-based leisure pursuits as watching television . |
| 19 | The country 's trade deficit in textiles and clothing grew from $4,700 million in 1980 to $26,500 million in 1989 , making it third only to oil and motor vehicles as the biggest component of the country 's overall trade deficit . |
| 20 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 21 | Yeah , it is it 's near enough to town but out of it . |
| 22 | There are more than 250,000 " statistically significant farming units " in Britain , with three-fifths of the full-time farms being devoted mainly to dairying or beef cattle and sheep . |
| 23 | And so they went on to recommend a return to selective education at secondary level , with no radical change in the sixth forms of the new grammar schools , even though some of these might be devoted exclusively to science and technology . |