Example sentences of "[vb -s] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , an overcrowded room with either poor lighting or too much glare from unshaded windows and haphazard storage of materials adds to the daily problems of self-organisation and comfortable study habits that can be particularly important for children with visual problems . |
| 32 | Even when hearing loss is not severe , reading keeps one informed , increases vocabulary and adds to the aural memory-bank . |
| 33 | The speakers also generate distortion which adds to the harmonic content , or crunch , but not to the clarity of individual notes . |
| 34 | ( This adds to the dramatic tension . ) |
| 35 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 36 | Economists and others who have considered the human capital notion over the years can be divided into two groups : those who have argued that human beings increase national wealth ; and those who went a step further to argue that improving the quality of human beings through health , education and other services increases their productivity as labourers and hence adds to the national wealth . |
| 37 | A frill around the hips or a rose bud design adds to the girlish feel . |
| 38 | His opposition to premarital sex — he and his university sweetheart stay in separate rooms — adds to the eccentric image . |
| 39 | There is also a special dimension , the violation of the role of the family , which adds to the harmful consequences of incest . |
| 40 | But R-134a has one drawback compared to propane and butane — it adds to the so-called greenhouse effect of pollution which may be heating up the earth 's climate . |
| 41 | Bits of it actually sound accidental , but that only adds to the shocking brilliance of a record that allowed rock a way into the previously terrifying world of dance , and that showed dance a way forward too . |
| 42 | The public rooms are graceful , fresh and elegant and by night a pianist adds to the relaxed atmosphere . |
| 43 | At Christmas time the stores are besieged by shoppers , which adds to the everyday chaos . |
| 44 | Nearby is a ship in a glass case that adds to the timeless atmosphere of the house . |
| 45 | The picture is in black and white — there is never enough night light for colours to emerge — and this adds to the unreal quality . |
| 46 | To reach or exceed tough targets , an executive 's company may offer the incentive of a holiday abroad if he or she succeeds , and so the business executive adds to the swelling tide of international tourists . |
| 47 | Even if , as one study asserts , the USSR pays 50 per cent more for CMEA products than these products command in world markets , the question which matters to the Soviet Union is what she would have to pay for equivalent Western equipment ( and how she would pay for it ) . |
| 48 | Here we would never maintain the whole is suffering environmental decline , but that parts of it are , and this matters to the numerous people living there . |
| 49 | But it is probably more at an implicit , unexamined , level that much anthropological writing adheres to the frustration-aggression hypothesis . |
| 50 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 51 | I do not think that the Labour party could possibly repay the debt that it owes to the late Captain Maxwell . |
| 52 | The articles of the partnership deed should clearly state the rights of partners with regard to one another , and the duties which each partner owes to the other members of the partnership . |
| 53 | The answer is clear : it owes to the biological presuppositions which he takes from Aristotle . |
| 54 | The advance man knows the way to get VIPs in and out of the hall and how to manage their entrances and exits to the best effect . |
| 55 | Estimates of life expectancy in residential care at specific ages can be calculated by using a method proposed by Sullivan which applies the age specific and age specific prevalences in five year bands to the 1990 population figures and death rates for England and Wales . |
| 56 | The key questions about jobs in both offices and factories now concern ‘ how much of the job entails information processing … it is , what level of abstractions is involved , what access the person has to the central data bank and management information system , and how much autonomy and responsibility the individual enjoys ’ . |
| 57 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 58 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 59 | This defaults to the current module owner . |
| 60 | This defaults to the current module manager . |