Example sentences of "to [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 2 | At the top of the pillar , the 26-year-old guide picked up a new sack of food and popped across to the Freney face to solo a new direct version of the Central Pillar ( Chris Bonington 's finest hour ) . |
| 3 | Now this sounds as though it 'll actually make quite a difference to perhaps a small farmer . |
| 4 | There was a manual for each hardware component and software product , the total running to perhaps a hundred linear feet , not including the numerous multiple editions of manuals . |
| 5 | Briefly , if a church , for example , wanted to raise money , the ladies of the congregation organised themselves into small groups , often into pairs , and each group distributed invitations to perhaps a dozen or fourteen friends to a tea to be held in the church hall or some other suitable place . |
| 6 | He did that at the Hope ( Close : He improved three times , but would have had to better a 63 to do it every round — 76-68-67-63-69 ) . |
| 7 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 8 | Quorum Software Systems Inc , the Menlo Park , California outfit which has already done a version of its Compatibility Engine — allowing Apple Macintosh programmes to run on RISCs — for Solaris , is currently negotiating terms with SunSoft to so a similar Windows product , saying it would be an easier job than the Macintosh version . |
| 9 | A series of short pitches , to avoid rope drag , zigzagged upwards to below a huge overhang , where a traverse left teetered to a safe , sunless stance overlooking the north face . |
| 10 | Mister C might be fine , but clearly someone needs to down a few more smart drinks . |
| 11 | In order to restrict consumer credit by a given amount , the Government is forced to raise interest rates to a higher level than it would have to in a non-subsidized market . |
| 12 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
| 13 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 14 | However , these are limited in number and apply to only a small proportion of all Forestry Commission lands ( Hall 1974 ) . |
| 15 | Due to pressure on places the Faculties of Arts , Law , Medicine and Social Sciences are able to offer deferred entry to only a small proportion of applicants . |
| 16 | Once again the seriousness of the illness was known to only a small group who concocted an official bulletin stating the Prime Minister was exhausted and needed a prolonged rest . |
| 17 | It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing . |
| 18 | It can be seen that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level . |
| 19 | A straightforward , attractive , and testable interpretation of Sag & Hankamer 's suggestion is that ellipses are interpreted with reference to only a representation of the superficial features of a text , while model interpretive anaphors are interpreted with reference to only a mental model . |
| 20 | If the fact that the label is encoded there helps in the interpretation of a pronoun referring to that object , the other half of Sag & Hankamer 's hypothesis — that deep anaphors are interpreted with respect to only a mental model — will be shown to be false . |
| 21 | While arbitrage is open to any investor , these two alternatives strategies , which will now be explained , are open to only a limited number of investors . |
| 22 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 23 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 24 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 25 | It was easy to save on coral sand because without undergravel filtration , it is better to stick to only a light dusting of sand on the tank floor . |
| 26 | When the weather is showery , there is always a grave risk of the cloud base lowering to only a few hundred feet , and this can happen within minutes of the rain starting to fall . |
| 27 | They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent . |
| 28 | When Malcolm James 's book Born of the Desert — the reminiscences of a doctor with the 1st S.A.S. in the Western Desert — appeared in 1945 , a reviewer wrote : ‘ All men have conscience , but it is given to only a few to have the selflessness to stride out into battle and , by themselves undertaking the combat that has to be done by someone , to satisfy its insistence … ’ |
| 29 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 30 | The loch is very weedy and fishing restricted to only a few clear patches ; but there are some super trout to be had , deep bodied and golden in colour . |