Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While most obviously a reaction to the coalescence of the right , it was also a reaction against the establishment in north Korea on 14 February of the Interim People 's Committee under the leadership of Kim Il Sung . |
| 2 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's all right no bother to us ’ . |
| 4 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 5 | Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers . |
| 6 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 7 | For the orthodox , however , it is not so much an aid to devotion as a way of communicating with God . |
| 8 | By contrast , the only Buid words which might be used to translate our concepts of ‘ courage ’ and ‘ bravery ’ carry strongly negative moral overtones : words like isug denote not so much an indifference to personal danger as a tendency to fierceness or violence . |
| 9 | Such comments show not so much an insensitivity to the problems of the locals , but reduces them to cyphers , tourist attractions almost , along with the surrounding scenery . |
| 10 | Genscher 's remarks about ‘ one German nation ’ may send shivers down some people 's spines , but what is objectionable is not so much the reference to the German nation but the implied moral equivalence between East and West Germany . |
| 11 | Heterosexuality among English writers , it was being implied , was so much the exception to the rule as to demand special treatment . |
| 12 | Moreover , the event seemed to me much more a paean to the Pahlavi family than to Iran . |
| 13 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 14 | So hopefully the trip to England wo n't just be a holiday , it will be the beginning of a new life . |
| 15 | This intense cultivation of varied crops , so sharp a contrast to the monocultures of the centre , was dependent on irrigation . |
| 16 | As for the great Largo e mesto itself , here it 's the intensity of his phrasing that gives so sharp an edge to the sorrow . |
| 17 | Abrams argued that traditional neighbourliness will not survive and that its passing is not to be deplored , because it was so often a reaction to adverse social conditions . |
| 18 | Just as the causes of family failure are many and varied , so too the approach to family welfare must be on a wide front . |
| 19 | The play is basically a psychological study of a marital break up , yeah , of a couple and the other couple are very largely just an audience to George and Martha 's marriage yeah , that is the main line . |
| 20 | Half of clinics open just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a Family Planning Association survey revealed yesterday . |
| 21 | HALF the country 's birth control clinics open their doors just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a major survey shows today . |
| 22 | If you want , you can walk right into the cirque from the mouth , over grass first of all , but then across the stone-strewn floor ; it is just about a mile to the furthest rock face . |
| 23 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 24 | He married Jane Champneys on 1 September 1768 , and shortly afterwards the move to Holland must have taken place , as John appears in the Amsterdam poorterboek on 29 December 1768 . |
| 25 | It was still only a quarter to eight — exactly the time when , last Friday , Alan turned up . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Pound has proposed an English poet who is more nearly an analogue to Gautier than any so far mentioned , a nearer analogue and yet still not wholly trustworthy because he is ‘ from poem to poem , extremely uneven ’ . |
| 27 | I come home practically every night to be with you , so if you want to dance , we 'll dance . ’ |
| 28 | The creation of such schemes is more often a reaction to political pressure than the result of a rational approach to the issue of compensation for the effects of government action . |
| 29 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 30 | It will 1 ) examine more fully the extent to which primary schools vary in their effects on a variety of pupils ' educational outcomes , including progress in reading and maths ; 2 ) establish whether the composition of pupil intakes is related to effectiveness ; 3 ) find out whether school vary in their effectiveness from year to year and whether their effects on pupils persist into secondary school . |