Example sentences of "to [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 2 | If it wishes to , a company can surrender its entire ACT ( as opposed to merely the surplus amount ) . |
| 3 | Considerable indignation was expressed by one constable when recalling an incident at which a colleague was assigned by a headmaster to merely the non-examination classes , feeling that their work in schools should not be marginalized in this way . |
| 4 | Casting was practised here from the 13th to perhaps the mid-16th century AD , though terracotta sculpture was practised earlier . |
| 5 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 6 | But many fans have said no to perhaps the biggest potential moneyspinner a club can indulge in , relocation . |
| 7 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 8 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 9 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 10 | My own impression is that initially there was a significant increase , but that attendance has now returned to much the same levels as before the cameras came in . |
| 11 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 12 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 13 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 14 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 15 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 16 | I shall suppose it comes to much the same . |
| 17 | Nor does it seem likely that the idea of causal power is not open to analysis , or , what comes to much the same , that it is somehow to be acquired without noticeable effort by thinking on what is common to such verbs as " push " and " pull " , as has sometimes been supposed . |
| 18 | Besides , primaries used for the selection and ranking of persons proposed for inclusion in party lists would be open to much the same objections as were raised earlier in these pages against choice by the electorate at large among candidates who actually figure in those lists . |
| 19 | The Archbishop of Canterbury 's report on urban priority areas ( UPAs ) comes to much the same conclusion as the inner area studies and the Scarman Report : ‘ We can put forward a confident and melancholy generalisation — that the UPAs are places of severe and increasing deprivation . |
| 20 | Up and down the canal , as far as my binoculars can reach , the water is white with floating cottony flecks , and we can be sure that they have carpeted the ground to much the same radius in other directions too . |
| 21 | This is , I suspect , the beginning of a process that will lead to much the same outcome as was brought about by the hundreds of Government amendments — sometimes running into four figures — that have been tabled to similar Bills . |
| 22 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 23 | In his view , it was a great strength of English law that governmental officials were subject to basically the same laws as private citizens to the extent that these covered the activities of government . |
| 24 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 25 | At the other extreme is the voluntary but draconian Dutch ‘ covenant ’ with industry that binds companies to reduce the weight of packaging to below the 1986 level , to end all landfilling and incineration of packaging , and to take back at least 90% of all non-reusable packaging — all by the end of the decade . |
| 26 | A fall in prices in October to below the International Natural Rubber Organization 's ( INRO ) " may buy " level of 185.00 Malaysian/Singapore cents a kilogramme fuelled speculation that intervention was imminent . |
| 27 | The Disabled Persons Registration Act 1944 provides that a disabled person can not be dismissed ( unless there is ‘ reasonable cause ’ for so doing ) if that would reduce the number of disabled workers in the business to below the fixed quota of 3 per cent . |
| 28 | It then declined , dropping to below the third magnitude in 1940 . |
| 29 | She could n't see much of it because the thrust stage ran onward out of sight … but you did n't have to down the entire egg to know that it was rotten . |
| 30 | I have never flown in a tail dragger before but I would like to in the near future . |