Example sentences of "[adj] to [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Candidates must apply to HCIMA three months before the date of the examination and must obtain , from the centre where they are enrolled , a signed letter stating that the centre is prepared to forward an examination paper to HCIMA . |
2 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
3 | Use a simple drop-ended cage , one similar to either a rat or squirrel trap or , as I do , make your own specially for the job . |
4 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
5 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
6 | R. S. Wood himself , occupying a central position in more senses than one , wished to see a transfer of all pupils at the age of eleven to a common secondary school , followed by transfer for a selected minority at the age of thirteen to either a grammar or a technical school . |
7 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
8 | ( Roza , in her more affluent days , had been accustomed to quite a bit of sophisticated luxury . ) |
9 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
10 | Throughout most of the 1980s there was a ‘ bubble ’ of spare capacity , equal to about a quarter of total capacity at its peak . |
11 | These include standard items applicable to both a sale and a purchase , and those that are inapplicable to your side of a particular transaction should , of course , be deleted ; if you run quickly through the agendas this will be enough in most cases to remind you which items should stand and , which should be deleted . |
12 | Was able to please a customer . |
13 | Trade and Industry Secretary , Peter Lilley , announced that Britain will still be able to down a pint after 1992 , despite some attempts by Brussels to bring the UK into the metric system . |
14 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
15 | A central gravity anomaly , which underlies part of the carbonate shelf and hence is shown as a pink area , could be due to either a granite or a sedimentary basin . |
16 | Epilepsy may be due to either an increase in glutamate-mediated excitation or a reduction in GABA-mediated inhibition . |
17 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
18 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
19 | Smoke alarms need to be close to where a fire is most likely to break out , but also in a position where an alarm can be heard throughout your home especially when you 're asleep . |
20 | Our ears are sensitive to only a fraction of these sounds . |