Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal decided that the Transfer Regulations did not cover employees employed in the undertaking but dismissed shortly prior to completion . |
| 2 | The ministry demanded more than 400 changes altogether — which Professor Ienaga described as tantamount to censorship and a violation of the constituional right to freedom of expression . |
| 3 | Then if Mr Major takes a cool look at why Mrs Thatcher was overthrown , why he became Prime Minister in 1990 , and why he came so near to defeat in 1992 , he will see a cycle of excessive boom , high inflation and then prolonged recession . |
| 4 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 5 | The wartime earnings of most skilled shipyard workers , for example , would have exceeded £60 a year , and with the Admiralty deducting at source and paying over to the Treasury , yields came much nearer to expectation . |
| 6 | There were several times in 1984 when the government seemed fairly near to defeat , notably in November 1984 when the pit deputies ’ union , NACODS , seemed likely to strike also . |
| 7 | It came as near to cattiness as Grenfell could , and gently brought the house down . |
| 8 | Hanley was injured and so Garry led the side — ‘ the proudest moment in my career ’ — and the Lions came as near to victory as any team has ever done Down Under . |
| 9 | It was true that none of the ones that sprang to mind seemed particularly adequate to Folly , but then Luke probably had n't even thought she might be jealous . |
| 10 | Now fate was about to take a hand in the outcome of the championship , for at the next race , at the Nürburgring — a great track , in its old version , for its challenges but a wooded retreat for Germanic savages , drunks and the wettest clouds of Europe — Niki came very close to death . |
| 11 | She was hollow eyed , drawn , and seemed very close to exhaustion but she had herself well in hand . |
| 12 | That is , the duodenal mucosa became more resistant to acid after a mild acid challenge , indicating that adaptive cytoprotection occurred in rats fed the linoleic or the eicosapentaenoic acid diet as observed in the oleic diet group . |
| 13 | But following the period with which Mannheim was concerned ( the first half of the nineteenth century ) conservative political thought developed mainly as a defence of capitalism against the rising socialist movement , and so became more sympathetic to rationalist views , especially in the economic sphere . |
| 14 | In the eighteenth century educated women became more likely to breast-feed their babies . |
| 15 | Objectors say the Conservators must be brought to heel and made more responsive to public opinion . |
| 16 | As the women 's movement became increasingly central to purity campaigns before the First War , Home Office officials developed a range of tactics to stifle feminist pressure , from diplomatic stone-walling to outright misogyny . |
| 17 | Encouraged by the Josephite hierarchy , who rightly suspected Nonpossessor sympathies among his closest advisers , the Tsar became increasingly impervious to advice . |
| 18 | It was also the crossroads at which the constable felt most subject to authority . |
| 19 | That was really funny and he looked suspiciously close to laughter . |
| 20 | Accordingly , the content we saw as essential to knowledge about language was incorporated in the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading , and writing , both in the statements of attainment and in the programmes of study . |
| 21 | To pacify the law and order lobby , a distinct difference was recognised , between property offences ( 95 per cent of all crime ) , viewed as amenable to punishment in the community , and crimes of violence which need to be punished more severely in order to protect the public . |
| 22 | They felt sweetly immune to distress . |
| 23 | It was something that he took very much to heart , but to this day , she does n't see it that way . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I listened too much to Dad and as a result let myself down . ’ |
| 25 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 26 | During the 60s and 70s consumption increased mainly due to gas production in the Netherlands and Norway . |
| 27 | She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter . |
| 28 | When she said as much to Dane , he nodded . |
| 29 | On the other hand , supper sounded too close to bedtime for his liking . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , do n't take what Niall said too much to heart . |