Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth .
2 I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter .
3 It is almost as much a foreign country to me as it is to you .
4 It is merely a rough guide to the general sentencing levels that this court feels is appropriate , and allowance needs to be made for inconsistency on the part of the Court of Appeal itself ( Thomas , 1993 ) , plus the considerable ‘ latitude ’ which is normally allowed before it will interfere with a sentence passed by the Crown Court .
5 Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) .
6 Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic .
7 In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration .
8 This means that in particular colonial discourse analysis is not merely a marginal adjunct to more mainstream studies , a specialized activity only for minorities or for historians of imperialism and colonialism , but itself forms the point of questioning of Western knowledge 's categories and assumptions .
9 In this sense , daydreaming is purposeful — not merely a random response to a superfluity of mentally unoccupied time :
10 The archives contain some extremely impressive examples of recognition by administrators of the fundamental rationality of Masai pastoralism , at a time when pastoralism was generally considered to be merely a primitive prelude to the development of agriculture , and pastoralists obsolete relics of an earlier phase of human history .
11 there would appear to be a need for closer monitoring of attendance on induction training for new academic staff and perhaps a higher priority to be given to further staff development and training of mid-career and senior staff in the area of teaching and learning-facilitating skills .
12 It is perhaps a physical impossibility to be as aware of a bitter as of a sweet taste , but a toothache relentlessly pulls wincing sensibility to itself .
13 Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin .
14 Because I , I 've received a letter erm from a parishioner , if I can find it , er which I have photocopied for everyone , which I think was a direct response to the fact that there was something in the magazine and perhaps a direct response to other meetings and to a general feeling as well .
15 Perhaps a brief reference to some of the careers in which former students have found historical skills and knowledge useful would not go amiss .
16 I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry .
17 perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ?
18 And perhaps a little bit to spending the £750 which was also part of the prize .
19 Now I think this is a very interesting point because if you go home , and over the next few days do what most people do after course like this , and that is they listen perhaps a little bit to radio , certainly watch some T V and , and think about all these issues , one of the things that will surprise you is that some of the people who are prominent broadcasters are really rather incompetent .
20 He was obviously a good boss to work for .
21 She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse .
22 erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married .
23 This is obviously a terrible place to be caught in bad weather or poorly acclimatised .
24 This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen .
25 In most cases , divers working at those depths tend to reach the limits of maximum bottom time , and so a speedy assent to the surface is not desirable .
26 And so a rapid return to the Lakes became a priority for me ; a desire I shared , it seemed , with every cold front kicking around the South Atlantic .
27 So a chilly start to Saturday , but any mist and fog will soon go .
28 So a catastrophic drop to 5 per cent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day .
29 But this is only a first step to scientific study , and two questions naturally follow : having found D what use is it ?
30 Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public .
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