Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vallance said the most innovative approaches to home banking using telecommunications that he had come across anywhere were the different approaches of the Bank of Scotland the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 2 | It triggered Marr into writing one of his most elegantly moody melodies to date . |
| 3 | Rex made one of his most doubtful faces to date . |
| 4 | In response , feminists have developed more wide-ranging , less faithful addresses to psychology . |
| 5 | There was a widespread acceptance of the Keynesian view that far less painful alternatives to money wage cuts were available in the form of demand management policies . |
| 6 | He laced the sails rather than use pockets , as now preferred , and introduced colour blends that stimulated entirely fresh approaches to kite design . |
| 7 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 8 | There are also clear types which are useful for making less visible repairs to glass and corrugated plastic . |
| 9 | The creation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 represented an attempt to co-ordinate the responses of less powerful states to superpower pressure through the establishment of a ‘ third way ’ — an independent posture aligned to neither the capitalist West nor the communist East . |
| 10 | Dependent on governmental funding and reluctant to lose establishment goodwill , these groups often came to rely on governments with extremely negative attitudes to homosexuality . |
| 11 | Botha , however , is replaced by a new Nationalist leader , FW De Klerk , who promises only cosmetic changes to apartheid . |
| 12 | At present , only general guidelines to management can be provided , based largely on the characteristics of the behaviour which have been described . |
| 13 | It is curious that in modern works on insects , the different stages are often shown in different illustrations , in order to be clearer , to give less systematic hostages to fortune , and to use colour only where it is necessary . |
| 14 | The consensus on full employment lasted as long as measures to achieve full employment involved only marginal changes to society . |
| 15 | It has become so rare thanks to vaccination that there 's only two n places needed i to cover the whole country , Scotland included . |
| 16 | What had started with Jones as a search for muon catalysed fusion , then theory on piezonuclear fusion in his paper with van Sieclen and with Palmer as a puzzle about the gases emitting from volcanoes , was now turning into a search for entirely new routes to fusion . |
| 17 | Other status groups erect less formidable barriers to entry . |
| 18 | Is not one of the most serious threats to stability and peace in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union the presence of large minorities within the new states that do not necessarily recognise those states ? |
| 19 | Chief Supt Richard Stacey on surveillance at Broadwater Farm The curse of drug addiction , which hovers like a dark cloud over entire nations , is surely one of the most serious menaces to freedom in our time . |
| 20 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 21 | Comparable judgments used terms like ‘ lewd ’ , ‘ offensive ’ , ‘ recognised standards of propriety ’ and ‘ the ordinary modesty of the average man ’ , all of them largely subjective responses to behaviour which is legal in itself , but which becomes unacceptable when viewed by others . |
| 22 | Over the last five years or so , the ICA has been changing its focus to establish the basis of new and largely post-modernist attitudes to art . |
| 23 | Lio ! rt 's hand flew to his dagger , but pain had sharpened Hrun 's normally excellent reflexes to needle point . |
| 24 | Recent opinion polls show that , while Mr Mulroney remained one of Canada 's most unpopular leaders to date , his party had recovered ground and moved ahead of the New Democrats into second place behind the Liberals . |
| 25 | Ignoring employees ' own capacity to recognise , assess and minimise risk may well mean the risks themselves — the obvious physical ones ( fire , explosion ) and the more mundane and nebulous but often more far-reaching threats to business survival ( financial or market-oriented ) — are overlooked too . |
| 26 | Economic evidence , then , confirms the more direct pointers to population changes such as the study of replacement rates . |
| 27 | The NCC also identified more direct benefits to wildlife . |
| 28 | 15.34 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 5 should be encouraged to make more extended contributions to group or class discussions and to informal or formal presentations , eg dramatic improvisation , role-play activities or scripted scenes . |
| 29 | However , it is also informed by more rigorous approaches to language — those of generative linguistics and formal semantics — and this greater leaning towards formalism can be seen both in its treatment of integration and construction , and in the attention it pays to aspects of language processing such as parsing . |
| 30 | One must look to their domestic policy dilemmas for more serious impediments to growth . |