Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 2 | so that was n't strong enough to shovel coal ? |
| 3 | She was ever watchful , and careful not to court publicity . |
| 4 | A 10ft long mains lead and a 12ft steam hose made it easy to reach high up to ceiling level and far away from the socket outlet . |
| 5 | There are those where mission critical business decisions can only be made based on absolute up to date information . |
| 6 | We dog-legged out to Pigeon Point Fort , which had defended the island rather unsuccessfully in years gone by : it changed hands 20 times , mainly between Britain and France . |
| 7 | Central however to correspondence tuition is the marking of the students ' test material . |
| 8 | APPs are mostly money purchase schemes , that is , they do not have a guaranteed final pension , unlike most occupational pension schemes , nor are they index-linked up to retirement age , unlike SERPs . |
| 9 | I 'm not stupid enough to risk taking hold of your muddy paw now ; you 'll pull me in too ! ’ |
| 10 | It is unlikely that there is a transition between the minor forms and the major ones : indeed , there seem to be fundamental differences between the two ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) , including the fact that the minor forms , being due mainly to surface creep , have the coarser grains in the ridges , while the larger forms , due mostly to saltation , tend to have the finer material near the crests . |
| 11 | It is quite normal of course to have a rapid weight loss of several pounds in the first week due mainly to water loss ( our bodies are 70 per cent water ) . |
| 12 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 13 | 47 Tucanæ ( NGC 104 ) is inferior only to Omega Centauri . |
| 14 | Posters , magazines , even songs , held out the prospect of Arcadia within travelling distance of the metropolis — a detached house in leafy seclusion , but close enough to golf club , tennis club , and railway station . |
| 15 | As in London , the civil authorities were anxious not to court unpopularity by exacting vengeance on the twelve seamen ultimately arrested . |
| 16 | Rover has spent 18 months restyling the bodywork to give the car a more chunky up to date look . |
| 17 | From that date , warehousing will be available for imports of non-Community goods which are liable only to import VAT ( p 108 ) . |
| 18 | From that date , warehousing will be available for imports of non-Community goods which are liable only to import VAT . |
| 19 | The first two years are therefore spent in acquiring a broad background of Chemistry , Physics and Mathematics the third and fourth years are devoted entirely to Chemical Physics . |
| 20 | It decided that it could benefit from a smart up to date information section for liaison with press and public . |
| 21 | When implemented as a stand-alone MS-DOS application , BW-Server acts as a dedicated server , so that the workstation can be devoted exclusively to Network File System file and resource sharing . |