Example sentences of "to [art] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society becomes more wholesome , more serene and spiritually healthier , if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their consciousness the knowledge that not only themselves , but all their fellows have access when ill , to the best that medical skill can provide . |
| 2 | OUR PROGRAMME WAS DESIGNED TO GET THE BEST FOR BRITAIN , TO BRING BRITAIN 'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE , OUR PENSIONS , PROVISION FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN , ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND LEVELS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UP TO THE BEST THAT EXISTS IN EUROPE . |
| 3 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 4 | Lack of robustness of the findings may be due to the relatively few numbers of still births in the interval classes and to other data problems , though the intervention of determinants that mediate the effect of birth interval , or some other factor can not be excluded either . |
| 5 | Finally , as they near the Sargasso , the imprinted memory of the particular taste of those strange waters may be sufficient to lure them to the very same semi-stagnant tract of ocean where they hatched , just as adult trout are led to their own birth-places . |
| 6 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 7 | While the proportion of pupils continuing to learn a foreign language to age 16 has improved in recent years , to a little more than two-fifths , the drop-out rate , particularly of boys , remains regrettable ’ . |
| 8 | Kersey helped himself to a little more of the Stilton . |
| 9 | The same true , though to a slightly less extent , I think the North West so although the increase is , is not as strong as in Yorkshire , Wales and Scotland , nevertheless continuing |
| 10 | A helpful , somewhat overstated hotel doorman gave me instant directions , from which I found myself in the shadow of Vine Street facing what seemed to be a series of rear entrances to a rather less than impressive warehouse . |
| 11 | As the financial year 1992–3 draws to a close some hospitals are already asking their doctors to stop admitting patients for elective surgery until the new financial year . |
| 12 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 13 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 14 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 15 | In a system which promises promotion , status and success to all and , in reality , confines these rewards to a very few , disappointment is inevitable . |
| 16 | For it is one of the most noticeable features of the " actually existing democracies " ( to adapt a useful phrase of Rudolf Bahro 's ) that the democratic principle is confined to a very few public institutions and many voluntary organizations , while a vast range of centrally important institutions continue to be run by largely unaccountable and unelected oligarchies and individual autocrats . |
| 17 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 18 | The company claims it costs a third to a half less than non-fault-tolerant storage systems used in mainframe environments . |