Example sentences of "[adj] to [adv] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Crime Survey found , for example , that ( as classified by the ACORN ‘ Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods ’ system ) there were three types of area which were especially prone to both crime and fear of crime : ‘ High-status non-family areas ’ ( I ) , ‘ Multi-racial areas ’ ( H ) , and ‘ Poorest council estates ’ ( G ) . |
| 2 | These are words whose meaning can only be discovered by referring to other words or to elements of the context which are clear to both sender and receiver . |
| 3 | The ‘ exercise mode ’ can be very useful when the purpose is clear to both teacher and class . |
| 4 | At first she kept insisting she would be right as rain in the morning , but after the blackbird had heralded in three more mornings , it was clear to both mother and daughter that Martha 's grip on life was weakening . |
| 5 | Aiming at ‘ normal ’ concentrations runs the risk of inducing phenylalanine deficiency , which several lines of evidence suggest is harmful to both nutrition and brain development . |
| 6 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 7 | These markets are subject to both expansion and contraction . |
| 8 | The radiation from B to A is again subject to both doppler and gravitational effects ( Figure 1b ) . |
| 9 | Two names for the same condition that was once life-threatening to both mother and baby but could now easily be brought under control — if warning signs were heeded in time . |
| 10 | They should be simple and comprehensible to both manager and surveyor . |
| 11 | Assessment questionnaires and inventories can be useful to both therapist and client for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | Setting targets that are fair and reasonable to both management and labour is perhaps the most formidable difficulty in operating a bonus scheme . |
| 13 | Optics provides a superb locus for examining the art-science relationship since optical problems , theories and constructions were integral to both science and art . |
| 14 | Well what 's happening is it the , during the war , right , we 're constraining the computer to estimate , like a single coefficient that is applicable to both war and peacetime er is n't the case , right , th there is a structural change , right , so when th when we constrain the computer to estimate the coefficients throughout the whole period , right , the coefficients are biased but if they do n't apply either to the post er pre war peacetime sample neither do they er fit very well to the data during the wartime , right , if we allow the intercept to change but we 're getting much better estimates both wartime and peacetime er parameter 's okay because we have n't got rid of , we 've got rid of that bias , right , in constraining the parameters to fit both wartime and peacetime er time periods . |
| 15 | If a local compromise between capital and labour is helpful to both accumulation and the standard of living of labour ( which it can be for a time ) , then most factions of the bourgeoisie and the working classes may support it . |
| 16 | The assistants not only preferred these sorts of activities but also felt that they were the ones most helpful to both child and teacher . |
| 17 | After Charlie was carried off the aircraft , it was unable to even taxi and I had to be towed off the runway . |
| 18 | Their role is important to both manufacturer and retailer . |
| 19 | As the result of years of breeding and cross-breeding specialised varieties have been attained specific to both size and colour . |
| 20 | Far from being the obligatory rock biography ( I believe such an account would be demeaning to both group and fans ) , this book is an attempt to discover the basis of a communication phenomenon . |
| 21 | The theme of thwarted conventional ambitions that was essential to both anomie and delinquent subculture theories implied that criminals and delinquents suffered from a ‘ gap ’ between their aspirations and expectations , and the existence of such a gap came to be taken as the measure of the validity of the theories . |
| 22 | Yet on the basis of the facts available to him Andrewes could be regarded as taking a compassionate line in agreeing to the dissolution of a marriage which was intolerable to both husband and wife and had not been consummated . |
| 23 | Anxiety is a debilitating ailment common to both man and beast . |
| 24 | Positivism in its purest form rejects two important doctrines common to both classicism and neo-classicism , namely due process and proportionality . |
| 25 | Institutions may retain the same appearance while transforming their character — a truism pertinent to both monarchy and parliament . |
| 26 | Then , by putting my ear to the handle , I hear sounds that tell me whether or not the blade is close to either rabbit or ferret . |
| 27 | It is necessary to both study and understand the facilities available , and to be familiar with the calculations and preparations involved so that once a pilot can maintain a performance in IFR conditions within the prescribed limits and under stress — he must also be in a position to make full use of the facilities available to comply with the traffic patterns and procedures required . |
| 28 | It would take an heroic leap of imagination to suppose that those same forestry services with a proven inability to manage just one product , timber , could presently perform the economic and administrative gymnastics necessary to fully value and manage forests for multiple benefits . |
| 29 | ‘ We learned so much about the suppliers and how they could help us or not that the results were n't so important ’ , said Hubbard , who claimed that the process was beneficial to both supplier and customer , taking some of the guesswork out of sizing and selecting the final systems . |
| 30 | The results are pleasing to both hand and eye and seem to be a satisfying way of leaving something of lasting beauty and worth to posterity . |