Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , the molecules involved are so small — remember all those New Testaments fitting on a pin 's head — that they are under constant assault from the ordinary jostling of molecules that goes on due to heat . |
| 2 | … real Christianity ( as distinct from Christianity-and-water ) goes much nearer to Dualism than people think . |
| 3 | The flexible oil return pipe attached via a banjo union to the side of the sump looks rather vulnerable to impact from rocks etc . |
| 4 | Anya flops down next to Rainbow , on the car-seat settee . |
| 5 | Each numbered block counts down nearer to destruction when you walk over it . |
| 6 | These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly . |
| 7 | Former Jazz Warriors and Courtney Pine band member , Robinson is also active in jazz-funk circles but this album nevertheless owes as much to jazz history as it does to today 's pop scene . |
| 8 | THE last bogeyman but five or six , in that line of third-world menaces who give the United States a sense of purpose , lives uncomfortably close to home . |
| 9 | In continental European countries , where lawyers can choose to become judges soon after qualifying , the judiciary looks very different to Britain , with , for example , near parity in numbers between men and women in countries like France and the Netherlands . |
| 10 | Sheila 's problem looks very different to John 's and Sally 's . |
| 11 | Here Flora has too much to content with ; but she does succeed in getting Percy , her father-in-law — one of those rich , plebeian businessmen this author toes so well — to marry his mistress , Barbara . |
| 12 | This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored . |
| 13 | It has tried to make the excellent support the Campaign offers more accessible to people all over Wales who are keen to improve their local environment . |
| 14 | This has produced a Texel , referred to in Holland as the Texelaar , that breeds consistently true to type and when used as a terminal sire leaves progeny of level quality . |
| 15 | Television includes Too Late to Talk to Billy , To the Lighthouse and The Boy in the Bush . |
| 16 | He pleads not guilty to murder but opening the prosecution at Liverpool Crown Court , Rodney Klevan QC said : ‘ Paula was found hanging by the neck from a rope . |
| 17 | Such a contrast between classicism and positivism seems rather generous to Beccaria . |
| 18 | The latter condition seems much closer to megalomania , which we understand to be an immense inflation of the ego , whereas the former seems more like the manic interludes in depression . |
| 19 | How could life have originated in an atmosphere which — by today 's standards — seems so inimical to life ? |
| 20 | Whereas the other approaches seem potentially applicable to discourse in general , conversation analysis , by definition , seems only applicable to discourse of a particular type : spoken , informal interaction . |
| 21 | Rather , it has been used as a retardant of the progression of AIDS , largely on the basis that it seems to sustain the subpopulation of T cells that appears especially vulnerable to HIV in the overt stage of the disease . |
| 22 | He seems highly sensitive to criticism in the press . |
| 23 | The ideological dimension favoured in the explanation of Continental fertility differences seems less applicable to Britain , which lacked major foci of religious or social dissent . |
| 24 | His view on the role of the state in the fulfilment of individual personality and his related theory of rights seems greatly indebted to T. H. Green . |
| 25 | That quest seems tantalisingly close to realisation . |
| 26 | Both are built to last , for sure , but it 's engineering that seems more appropriate to BR rolling stock than a luxury car . |
| 27 | It is odd that the holder of such a view of human beings could have appeared in history as a humanitarian and heroic opponent of cruelty and barbarism ; it seems more appropriate to Hitler than to Beccaria . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the lifetime approach seems more relevant to individuals . |
| 29 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 30 | The point applies as much to B as to C. An example may help : A has a farm , B is his heir , and C is the beneficiary of a trust of the farm ; that is , B is asked to give it to C. The trust disposition makes neither B nor C owner of the farm . |