Example sentences of "to [adj] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as in their trade policy the Federalists are prepared to sacrifice the Member States ' economic prosperity for the political goal of a United Europe , so does the establishment of a Common Foreign and Security policy sacrifice their military and strategic needs to that same political end . |
| 2 | But the ultimate source of the difficulty is the same : some objects have intrinsic orientations , with fronts , sides , etc. , and these allow both the deictic selection of some oriented plane and the non-deictic reference to some such oriented plane . |
| 3 | However , we have also drawn attention to some less satisfactory features , several of them fundamental . |
| 4 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 5 | Finally , remember that point-by-point comparisons can become tedious if extended too far ; a formal analysis always needs to be subordinated to some more general point you want to make . |
| 6 | It conforms , too , to some more recent observations of Piaget , Kohlberg and Gilligan . |
| 7 | I submit gladly to some more disinterested tribunal . |
| 8 | It 's best to begin with easy ones like the Starship Enterprise , the Blackpool Tower or Fergie , and then work up to some more difficult ones . |
| 9 | I helped myself to some more red caviare and that wonderful dark sour bread , and watched the cashier noisily adding the takings on an abacus . |
| 10 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 11 | The placing of additional edges onto an Agenda means that the search can proceed depth-first , breadth-first or according to some more complicated algorithm that might , for example , take into account the scores of different hypotheses . |
| 12 | Just previous to our visit to this latter small harbour a well known German smuggling vessel had been coopering off the coast and local boats had been landing cases of spirits . |
| 13 | The Rockies , Great Lakes and the gargantuan Niagara Falls lend an air of immense grandeur and beauty to this former French outpost , now a bilingual land which maintains strong ties with both the British and French cultures . |
| 14 | Every evening Summerchild looked down from these same arches on to this same exhausted tangle of brickwork . |
| 15 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 16 | According to this any theoretical statement , or political initiative , is supposed to tackle racism as a whole , all at once , and once and for all . |
| 17 | Add to this some striking metal loop fasteners and you have a million-dollar look jacket . |
| 18 | Not content with that dereliction , you have allowed five months to pass without responding to three more recent submissions . |
| 19 | Educated men of this period were not merely proud of their sciences , but prepared to subordinate all other forms of intellectual activity to them . |
| 20 | Recently restored to its original splendour , the visitor to these former royal apartments slips back into an age when elegance was king . |
| 21 | If , as seems to be the case , animals are alleged to posses rights with all the charisma attaching to these more fundamental notions , we need to clear the air by examining the extent to which human beings do . |
| 22 | As our inner-city work was mainly focused on very fine-grained differentiation , we have so far paid less attention to these more generalized markers in Belfast English , and in some cases we have not published the quantitative findings that arose from studying these . |
| 23 | They were nevertheless encouraged to play with the children of other service families , instructed to be polite to these less fortunate beings and discouraged from arrogance . |
| 24 | Perhaps in conjunction with a yacht , motor-cruiser or smaller water craft the aeroplane would provide a smashing day out for the high-achievers in any organization , make an unusual fishing expedition to normally remote waters , take more passive passengers sightseeing , or allow access to many such widely-separated leisure activities all on the same day . |
| 25 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 26 | I look forward to many more exciting developments in the future . ’ |
| 27 | The Panel accepts that the provisions of the City Code may not be appropriate to all such private companies and will , therefore , apply the City Code with a degree of flexibility in suitable cases . |
| 28 | Though the Privy Council finally ruled in her favour in 1637 , the patent fell foul of rising hostility to all such courtly monopolies and was blocked by the City of London . |
| 29 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 30 | Three years ago , when I started to make some real money as opposed to all that other stuff I 'd been making , my father hit bad trouble on the tables and the track and he … |