Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 2 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 3 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 4 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 5 | Swindon have their hopes of course but for Oxford its perhaps to high a climb |
| 6 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 7 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 8 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 9 | The friendly and unpretentious Hotel Doria is set just 400 yards from the lake , and close to all the resort 's amenities . |
| 10 | Built in the charming traditional chalet style , the Alte Post is quietly located yet close to all the village facilities . |
| 11 | Based in the centre of Rhodes , close to all the activity , bars , restaurants and clubs , the Noufara is an ideal meeting place to have cocktails before painting the town red . |
| 12 | It was similar to an indoor meeting because the stadium is compact , with the crowd close to all the action . |
| 13 | This blueprint challenged the assumptions of Keynesian theory that had provided the basis of economic policy in the United States for close to half a century . |
| 14 | A Sun Microsystems Computer Corp vice president , before biting his tongue , claimed it would be a ‘ piece of cake ’ getting 100,000 units out the door in the next year , close to half the volume Sun currently does in a year . |
| 15 | However , we can by no means stick slavishly to such a rule , for good harmonic flow needs variety in spacing intervals , and in any case we may wish to avoid smooth harmony and have something pungent , harsh , and bitter . |
| 16 | But fields that have been heavily dosed with chemical weedkillers and fertilizers would take centuries to become home to such a wealth of wildlife . |
| 17 | In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance . |
| 18 | The Cabinet came very near to such a decision . |
| 19 | It was also to many a crusade defending Anglican Protestantism against irreligion , popery and even the Jacobites . |
| 20 | I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt . |
| 21 | The franchise was variously extended , most notably to half the population previously excluded because of their sex . |
| 22 | Therefore it is unlikely that all patients can be expected to respond favourably to such a diet . |
| 23 | The winner 's benefit from responding appropriately to such a signal is that it does not risk injury by escalating the conflict into a real fight when it need not have done so . |
| 24 | In contrast , exploitation tends to involve the rapid diminution of resources , often to such an extent that the capacity for renewal is destroyed and optimum returns are short-lived . |
| 25 | However , in recent years the number and diversity of these studies has grown substantially to such a point where evidence from America , Japan , Europe and Australia all point to a link between moderate drinking and a significant reduction in death rates from heart disease * . |
| 26 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 27 | In the immediate post-war period , this discourse entered into the practical consciousness of many university teachers of English , eventually to such an extent that it significantly transformed the conditions of the discipline 's reproduction . |
| 28 | The decision came after the United States , Britain , France and Russia , which had agreed earlier to such a step , had enlisted the support of the fifth permanent member , China . |
| 29 | The more phosphate that is available , the more algae grow and multiply , sometimes to such an extent that they form a dense mat over the surface of the water . |
| 30 | Is that the best you can do , after you 've waited so long ? " — and sometimes to this the voice would add irritatingly — " and after saying No to that darling actor ? " |