Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 2 | He regrets that ‘ language , which adapts itself for the most part only to the common uses of life , has provided us with no single-worded or immediate designation ’ for the impression . |
| 3 | It may well lead to a major exodus of general practitioners from the capital ; this would have an effect opposite to the one Mrs Bottomley claims to seek . |
| 4 | Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles . |
| 5 | It began by quoting Pope Paul VI — ‘ the church is certainly not willing to restrict her action only to the religious field ’ — and continued with a critique of Malawi as fashioned by Dr Banda : ‘ A growing gap between rich and poor … a struggle for survival … deplorable wage structure … a deplorable price paid to farmers for some of their crops … bribery and nepotism … an atmosphere of resentment … a climate of mistrust and fear . ’ |
| 6 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 7 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 8 | Ellwood put his mouth close to the old man 's ear and whispered , showing his teeth . |
| 9 | + There is a good deal more to the same effect . |
| 10 | A particularly influential and characteristic tract is his Against Praxeas , a Christian who came from Asia Minor to Rome to express opposition both to the pluralistic theology of Justin and Hippolytus and to any recognition that Montanist prophecy might be an authentic work of the Paraclete . |
| 11 | This data is open to a variety of interpretations , and can be used to lend weight both to the participatory model and to the deferential model of electoral behaviour . |
| 12 | Please thank Renata very much too for doing one ; her point about the reference count being on the small side for usefulness even to the general learner is a crucial one ; likewise yours about the belt-and-braces reassuringness of the transitive/intransitive label . |
| 13 | The whole nation now exceedingly alarmed by the French fleet braving our coast even to the very Thames mouth ; our fleet commanded by debauched young men , and likewise inferior in force , giving way to the enemy , to our exceeding reproach ; God of his mercy defend this poor … nation . |
| 14 | Whereas I lie there in the night with an expired passport , pushing a baggage trolley with a squeaking wheel across to the wrong carousel . |
| 15 | By following the punchcard instructions you will be moving the lace carriage sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right . |
| 16 | Place the transfer carriage on the left hand side and , firmly pushing down , slide the carriage across to the right hand side . |
| 17 | Take education : it has made gigantic strides against bitter opposition to reform the system , to raise standards , to monitor the results and to draw industry closer to the academic and the educational world . ’ |
| 18 | The British ‘ compromise ’ is in practice closer to the American than Scandinavian model . |
| 19 | He urged his horse forward to the very edge of the moat , for he had not so loud a voice as his nephew . |
| 20 | Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time . |
| 21 | For Athenian authorities , sharing of power and admission of non-state interests is not sufficient because it allows influence only to the articulate and to civic agitators — the minority who can turn municipal decision-making to their own advantage . |
| 22 | The melody of the Adagio from Dvořák 's ‘ New World ’ Symphony owes its air of peace largely to the static harmony , which begins to move beat by beat only when there is a climax . |
| 23 | As Hollywood kept on discovering at its own expense — and this was a relatively costly movie compared with Nicholson 's previous works — good and successful literature does not necessary transfer easily to the big screen . |
| 24 | He 's even lightened the kerfing ( the strips running around the internal edges of the body ) by steam-bending thin pieces of solid maple to fit the exact curve , and then carving the wood away to the absolute minimum . |
| 25 | Donna got to her feet , still keeping low , and moved towards the small round window close to the front door in the hall . |
| 26 | In line with her injuries , her Policy paid out a benefit close to the maximum amount payable . |
| 27 | In Navli , a prosperous village close to the famous cooperative Amul Dairy in Gujarat , irrigation , cash crop farming and animal husbandry have made several families very rich . |
| 28 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 29 | She turned into the drive of the Red House , and brought the car to a halt close to the front door . |
| 30 | Kicking and bucking to keep her balance , she managed to draw to a shuddering halt close to the rushing torrent about ten feet below where he was standing . |