Example sentences of "[coord] to a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the regular repetitive features of a language have only a secondary kind of importance , whereas what is primarily important is the meaning which is not related significantly either to a causal order or to a statistically treatable random order . |
| 2 | The fitters laboured to modify the jeeps for desert travel and to a completely novel specification . |
| 3 | Into the first category would go Sam Snead , Arnold Palmer and Severiano Ballesteros , while into the second would go Ben Hogan , Jack Nicklaus and to a slightly lesser extent Nick Faldo . |
| 4 | My first sight of it , and to a slightly lesser extent every subsequent sighting , was breathtaking — no other word for it . |
| 5 | Since 1980 , the proportion of the national population qualifying for aid has fallen by 25 per cent in the UK , Denmark and the Netherlands , and to a slightly lesser degree in Belgium and Germany . |
| 6 | Actually the quarrel was largely due to Apollinaire 's careless use of terms and to a rather wilful misunderstanding on the part of Boccioni . |
| 7 | These shopfloor pressures presented an important challenge to trade unions to which , as dynamic and changing institutions , they responded in a number of ways including attempts to decentralise wage negotiations ( as in certain industries in Britain , and to a more limited extent in West Germany ) . |
| 8 | These shopfloor pressures presented an important challenge to trade unions to which , as dynamic and changing institutions , they responded in a number of ways including attempts to decentralise wage negotiations ( as in certain industries in Britain , and to a more limited extent in West Germany ) . |
| 9 | Thus , there was a commitment to more individualised learning and a more meaningful curriculum experience through pupil-centred and investigative learning methods , and to a more relevant and coordinated curriculum achievable through greater planning and , where appropriate , novel arrangements for the integration and synthesis of subjects . |
| 10 | The same argument applies to your college subjects , and to a more important degree . |
| 11 | This is generally observed at the first meeting and to a somewhat lesser extent at subsequent meetings . |
| 12 | By the 1980s , however , massive decline of jobs and population had led to the concentration of national socio-economic problems in inner cities , and to a very varied set of government programmes to improve the situation ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | Currently , the main attention and content of reform is largely imbalanced in favour of the more basic of the cognitive goals , to the relative neglect of higher-order cognitive goals , and to a very strong passivity when it comes to personal/social development goals . |
| 14 | The association with the stigma of poor relief remained , however , and to a very large extent these hospitals became the home for the long-stay patients and the elderly who were such a drain on the finances of the voluntary hospitals . |
| 15 | And to a very large degree , that has been erm , achieved , and I think that erm , the prospects for the county council for ninety-four five are now much better than they appeared to be a year ago , and er , I think the prospects for ninety-five six will need to be looked at through the budget review sub-committee and this committee at an early stage , and I 'm sure that the workman-like way in which it 's addressed it 's business is a good sign for the future . |
| 16 | As was seen in Part III , full-time employment — and to a much lesser extent part-time employment — is the gateway to a whole range of occupational welfare . |
| 17 | All this enquiry has led not to the definitive ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ , but to a quite fundamental reappraisal of pedagogic principles in general . |
| 18 | More than this , he even showed that horses use clairvoyance — the ability to see mentally something that exists or is happening out of sight — but to a much lesser degree . |
| 19 | Today , although sheep and goats roam on ranges set aside specifically for that purpose , escapees still damage the vegetation but to a much lesser extent . |
| 20 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 21 | Also , but to a much lesser degree , lignite ( the Montagne is dotted with lignite quarries ) , sand and sandstone . |
| 22 | The numbers of Malays and Burghers in the force remained greater than their strength in the population as a whole , but to a much lesser extent than earlier . |
| 23 | The situation has also improved greatly in South East Asia , but to a much lesser degree in South Asia . |
| 24 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 25 | The Scots were meanwhile retreating along the same route by which they had advanced , but to a very different reception . |