Example sentences of "to a [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck is Brazilian mahogany , 44mm wide at the nut , finished in thin , gloss water-based lacquer like the rest of the guitar and shaped to a well-rounded V. The headstock , which is bound and has a koa wood facing to match the back and sides , carries a set of gold Schallers with ebony buttons . |
| 2 | The reflection of political partisanship in the establishment of broadcasting stations could , if current trends continue , lead to a near-doubling of the present number of radio and television stations so that each state capital will have two of each : one which is part of the federal system and the other belonging to the state broadcasting service . |
| 3 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
| 4 | The now familiar formula — seeking ‘ new forms and methods of management ’ — a coded attack on Brezhnev 's ‘ stability of cadres ’ , means that the old are to a replaced by the young , the incompetent by the competent ; it also signifies departures from outmoded routines and the unsettling of vested interests . |
| 5 | Nepalese authorities hope to quadruple that figure to a million within the next decade . |
| 6 | Watson slipped to a 77 in the third round while Nowicki shot his record breaking 67 , but the lead going into the final round was shared by MacPherson and Cottrell , who added a 71 to his earlier rounds of 73–74 . |
| 7 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 8 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 9 | A carbon plasma is created in an electric arc struck between two graphitic electrodes ; up to a fifth of the carbon vaporized ends up as buckminsterfullerene . |
| 10 | Nor should anything especially sinister be read into reports that the money to pay for little Sachin has been provided by commercial concerns not averse to a little of the old quid pro quo . |
| 11 | Richard , whom they had left counting to a hundred by the mains switch in the hall , turned out the lights . |
| 12 | At a later stage , if errors are found in the procedure 's performance which can not be traced to a falling within the local system , it may be necessary to examine these influencing factors further , for instance the design of the form might be inadequate for the accurate recording of information , a factor outside the direct control of the section involved . |
| 13 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 14 | The model 100 , confusingly divided into the two-slot DT1 and three-slot DT2 , will use an 80486DX2 and be upgradeable to a 300 in the fall . |
| 15 | The model 100 , confusingly divided into the two-slot DT1 and three-slot DT2 , will use an 80486DX2 and be upgradeable to a 300 in the fall . |
| 16 | The programme to improve houses with bed-sitting rooms , flats and other houses in multiple occupation has also been curtailed to a sixth of the 1983–84 level . |
| 17 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 18 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |
| 19 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 20 | In Rowntree 's examples of typical streets in 1900 , in the poorest streets up to a third of the householders were widows , in contrast to less than 5 per cent in the best working-class districts . |
| 21 | Continue winter digging , adding organic matter to a third of the plot , and lime the area designated for planting brassicas . |
| 22 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |
| 23 | In the latter half of the eighteenth century parish vestries ( the local ‘ council ’ ) were often prepared to order general inoculations when smallpox was abroad locally , and the Poor Law Overseers paid the fees of paupers ( up to a third of the village ) . |
| 24 | On a high-rating Sunday , they will draw up to a third of the population of Britain . |
| 25 | All power was knocked out by Hurricane Iniki and up to a third of the buildings were flattened . |
| 26 | At the latter , over the third quarter of the eighteenth century , slavers rose from a quarter to a third of the merchant fleet . |
| 27 | It is estimated that in south-east Asia , some third or two-thirds of the residual trees are damaged irreparably while up to a third of the area is left as bare ground , often compacted by the forestry machinery . |
| 28 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 29 | It will be sufficient for our purposes to point to a few of the features of the chapter as we have it . |
| 30 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |