Example sentences of "[subord] to [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various technical terms for these two parts , and also differences of opinion as to where a particular clause divides , but still , this much seems agreed : the clause has a bi-partite structure , and the function of the choice as to what information we put in which part is to enable us to bring different bits of information into differing degrees of prominence . |
| 2 | If you do not do so , you may be left in some doubt as to when a constructive dismissal occurs . |
| 3 | Manorial court records sometimes give useful clues as to when a particular building existed ( even when it was built ) , but seldom are there clues to the sizes or layout . |
| 4 | As to why a peripheral , albeit a very smart one , should prove to be the saviour of a company we need to look at some history . |
| 5 | The firm must consider the knowledge and experience of each client for each activity and must place a note on file as to why a certain type of letter is issued . |
| 6 | As a result , there is rarely the time to provide adequate explanations as to why a particular step is carried out . |
| 7 | The question arises as to why a longer ( 60 second ) delay should allow a larger and thus excessive transfusion . |
| 8 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 9 | The present author was much intrigued as to why a northern merchant family should choose what seemed to be a most inappropriate device ( unless as indicative of their aggressive commercial practices ) . |
| 10 | In written language , for example , since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the marks ( alphabetic representations ) on the page , and how they are to be pronounced in speech , there is typically a range of alternatives as to how a written letter should be said . |
| 11 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 12 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |