Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , the end of the year , with a very happy family Christmas , made us look forward eagerly to the New Year . |
| 2 | Two detective constables walked in and listened eagerly to the latest gossip , glancing over to the superintendent with new animation in their eyes . |
| 3 | Get the tea ready , will you ? ’ he added fiercely to the young woman . |
| 4 | At the same time , the fresh unrest heightened fears that the turmoil in Kashmir would lead inexorably to a serious clash between Indian and Pakistani troops facing each other across the Line of Actual Control ( LAC ) . |
| 5 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 6 | The police referred daily to the current price of gold announced by Johnson Matthey and pitched the prices they offered appropriately to the form of dealing in which they purported to be engaged . |
| 7 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 8 | A complimentary minibus service runs daily to the private beach , just over a mile away , where there is a shoreside restaurant for lunch . |
| 9 | Although the couple are rarely seen in public together — Lewis went solo to the Golden Globe awards , though Brad accompanied her to the Oscars — Pitt says it 's not a conscious choice to avoid the paparazzi , they just never go out . |
| 10 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 11 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |
| 12 | The wide and leisurely Nile , constant for over 600 miles , had contracted suddenly to a dark gorge . |
| 13 | The saucer drops between the towers , flies low over strangely deserted streets and comes suddenly to a grinding halt . |
| 14 | It was as though she herself were under a spell , transmuted suddenly to a higher pitch , animated and volatile — as the alchemists were altered by their work . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , she still owes much to a male mentor who , in a previous job , told her : ‘ You can do it . |
| 16 | The development of fully-fledged headhunting firms owes much to a growing conflict of interest between different sectors of their business experienced by the management consultants and accountants who operated headhunting departments . |
| 17 | However , an angry or attacking tiger lays its ears back and surely a mere flashing of the ears can not add much to the general appearance of anger and aggression mirrored in the whole body of the beast . |
| 18 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 19 | I suspect that Mrs Moore 's sense of humour contributed much to the genuine streak of misanthropy in Lewis 's nature . |
| 20 | Yet the popularity of vegetarianism owes much to the great variety of vegetables and fruits and lower costs achieved by the expanding exploitation of the Third World as a market garden . |
| 21 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 22 | The glorious summer weather we have recently experienced offers much to the avid detectorist . |
| 23 | The work reported in this paper owes much to the similar work for an abstract version of CSP ( i.e. with no internal state ) reported in unc Throughout this paper we will observe the following conventions within program terms P , Q program fragments ( processes ) C conditional G guarded process g , h , k guards e , f general expressions b boolean expression U parallel declaration x , y , z identifiers representing variables c , d identifiers representing channels Lists of identifiers and expressions are denoted x , e respectively . |
| 24 | Certainly , his impact owes much to the new advertising methods of his principal clients , Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein — who , Michael Gross has written , " spearheaded a new kind of fashion advertising , buying multiple pages in magazines , keeping their images consistent no matter what product was being advertised . |
| 25 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 26 | Tending to follow market values , heriots might form realistic death duties , but other seigneurial perquisites , such as profits of the court , rarely added much to the total income . |
| 27 | Not always through royal initiative , and certainly not by a deliberate policy , Edward I 's reign witnessed some major developments much to the long-term disadvantage of the English church . |
| 28 | The reasoning owed much to the following extract of the speech of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd . |
| 29 | They began as small , elitist institutions that owed much to the 19th century concept of the German university . |
| 30 | He made a drama of it , much to the poor girl 's consternation and humiliation . |