Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A creature has a practical grasp of a domain if its behaviour is , within limits , successfully adjusted to the underlying constraints of the domain . |
| 2 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 3 | It may be that some of the produce offered to the temple for the gods and goddesses was discreetly diverted to the royal household ; it may also be , as with many later monarchies , that the royal authority depended on the religious establishment for validation . |
| 4 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 5 | The announcement of the bride 's sister 's engagement would be acceptable , but only if the bride herself knows in advance and gladly agrees to the public announcement being made at her wedding . |
| 6 | When you say , " Do you understand me ? " , you are really asking if you have successfully communicated to the other person what you had in mind . |
| 7 | In many cases this has involved rewording of Learning Outcomes but little change to the basic philosophy of the module . |
| 8 | Italy is of course the country where anything is possible , but legitimate concern has been expressed at the way in which the young Florentine judge has seen fit to take upon herself a role which properly belongs to the competent institutional authorities that of evaluating the appropriateness and the implementation of a particular restoration project . |
| 9 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 10 | Expression of all the xenobiotic metabolising enzymes studied was almost wholly confined to the epithelial cells , whether in normal , adenoma or carcinoma samples , except that cytochrome P450 3A was also identified in mast cells and glutathione S-transferase γ was also present in chronic inflammatory cells . |
| 11 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 12 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 14 | Haemoglobin , a scavenger of NO which is presumably confined to the extracellular space , also blocks the induction of LTP r141–143 , implying that NO ( or another haem-binding molecule , such as CO ) is released into the extracellular compartment . |
| 15 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 16 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 17 | Service of a notice of severance ( see Precedent 12 ) would appear to be effective to sever the joint tenancy if properly addressed to the other joint tenant and received at the property concerned . |
| 18 | However , the hon. Gentleman rightly refers to the other businesses which Harland and Wolff is now expanding and building up , and I am sure that its success , which I believe is assured under privatisation , offers the best hope for those men in the future . |
| 19 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 20 | In all metric measures and their direct phi-based equivalents only the 25th , 50th and 75th percentiles are used , so that attention is only given to the central half of the grain population present . |
| 21 | So , so , I believe it 's alright to say well people will migrate in the presence of , it 's rational for a person to migrate in the presence of , of high unemployment if high unemployment only refers to the formal sector , but it 's not rational if it implies that it refers to informal and formal . |
| 22 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 23 | A further risk is that the smaller Fellowships become so , " special and different " that they may lose the wider identification with all sufferers from addictive disease and they may therefore be less exposed to the common humility that is the essential basis for recovery . |
| 24 | The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ . |
| 25 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 26 | Antiracists have rightly pointed to the limited nature of multiculturalism 's focus on prejudice and attitudes , and its strategy of prejudice reduction by teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ . |
| 27 | The revelations , which are seriously embarrassing Mr Gandhi 's Congress ( I ) Party , were accompanied by documents apparently leaked to the Indian press by Swedish sources . |
| 28 | Now , of course , it may well be that such a vision exists in your church , and that to insist on the importance of spiritual warfare , some of you might say , is only to preach to the converted . |
| 29 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 30 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |