Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn left on road then after 30 yds turn right on to enclosed path up steps by National Trust sign for Stockham 's Hill . |
| 2 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 3 | In summary , a 30 second delay in cord clamping with the infant held 20 cm below the introitus gives a higher initial packed cell volume and higher arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios ( implying less right to left shunting of deoxygenated blood at cardiac or pulmonary level ) on the first day . |
| 4 | But police say that was only down to good fortune and not good driving . |
| 5 | By January , virtually all foreign securities had been sold , but India still came extremely close to technical default on interest payments on its foreign debt . |
| 6 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 7 | Unlike the more staid and less affluent families of Racervine Park , residents of Scarcement Chase did not adhere so strictly to Ixmaritian law . |
| 8 | We felt we were halfway back to civilian life , being off the camp and in the middle of an interesting town . |
| 9 | This argument is based on the fact that X-cells have better spatial resolution than Y-cells while the latter have better temporal resolution , plus the fact that Y-cells tend to respond only transiently to sustained contrast . |
| 10 | In spite of these affinities , however , it should be remembered that the Kingscote mosaic itself is assigned only tentatively to integral group ( a ) : it could overlap with , or be considered part of , integral group ( b ) . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the results of most studies suggest that obese individuals respond less well to oral bile acid treatment than the non-obese . |
| 12 | the continue develops from signed Danish , Swedish , English and so on to Danish Sign Language , Swedish Sign Language , British Sign Language etc . |
| 13 | An example was written even before the Sharon Tate murders by Stephen Farber for the winter issue of the respected journal , Film Quarterly , in which he examined the reasons why young audiences responded so passionately to Easy Rider . |
| 14 | Speakers ' use of creole varieties lie along a continuum , from varieties of creole which may well be incomprehensible to a speaker of Standard English , to varieties much closer to Standard English ; |
| 15 | During Edward 's short reign , England had grown much closer to continental Protestantism and had begun to embrace the nascent Protestant internationalism being fostered by Calvin at Geneva . |
| 16 | This involved the opening of mail , bugging and telephone-tapping subject only occasionally to external check , the dissemination of information thus obtained to favoured politicians and break-ins to install bugs or obtain documents . |
| 17 | It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams , of course ; but I take it as a sign of happiness . |
| 18 | Such a pond would be extremely difficult to filter and the reason why your fish did well in it was undoubtably down to low stocking levels and a balanced plant population . |
| 19 | He 's trotted away down to deep square leg and Trevor Ward the Kent batsman there with a large drink for him . |
| 20 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 21 | They let me hold her for a few minutes and then they took her away upstairs to Special Care . |
| 22 | Other factors might contribute more importantly to organisational performance , such as planning and control methods , information systems , leadership and employee motivation . |
| 23 | The promises and statements made in election programmes are the basis of all those made in the campaign , so by relating these to government statements of their legislative programme , and even more so to actual behaviour in office , we can see if party-based democracies actually do work in this way . |
| 24 | It is the emphasis on interpretation , however , that sets Spitzer apart from the Formalists and their successors , and brings him closer , as we shall see , to the Anglo-American New Critics ; and even more so to hermeneutic theory ( see Chapter 5 ) , from which the term ‘ philological circle ’ is derived . |
| 25 | But it was still enough to double population every fifty years . |
| 26 | Sauces cling more easily to complex-shaped pasta . |
| 27 | The party took more easily to modern electioneering than did the Liberals , and gained an unexpected bonus in the votes of women , who have been a force for conservatism since their enfranchisement in 1918 . |
| 28 | Inland Revenue staff pay is now linked more directly to individual performance under a new performance management system introduced on 1 October . |
| 29 | This human willingness to lay the blame for harsh and unhappy conditions of life upon some identifiable enemy , without pursuing with sufficient persistence , evidence to support the action , has frequently become a powerful tool in the hands of people in positions of power who , mindful of their own shortcomings or wrongful behaviour , direct attention elsewhere and turn wrath upon innocent people , adding still further to human dissension . |
| 30 | My experience suggests that many lesions that are macular and blanch on direct pressure respond more favourably to pulsed dye lasers than to alternatives such as copper vapour lasers , although in many cases responses are similar . |