Example sentences of "to the [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 2 | It was Charles who , by barring Cumberland 's way forward , really dictated the site , a stretch of open moorland about 500 feet [ 150 m ] above sea level , between the Moray Firth and the River Nairn , five miles [ 8 km ] east of Inverness , known to the Scots as Drummossie Moor . |
| 3 | Simply expressed , there is no point in talking politics to the powerful if you are powerless and can not force them to listen and act on what you have to say . |
| 4 | The one sets off and contrasts with the other , and a choir should give a lead as much to the spoken as to the sung parts . |
| 5 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 6 | More impressive yet is the fact that upright basses would present little problem to the 715 as its voicing filter can be moved to any desired ‘ notch ’ between 120 and 800 Hz , assisting with the elimination of intrusive resonant frequencies which would promote feedback . |
| 7 | This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment . |
| 8 | The pastime , which appeals to the Taiwanese as well as British , American and Australian expats , is rich in traditions and customs . |
| 9 | It showed the leader board and then switched to the seventh where Krantz was preparing for a long approach putt down the kidney-shaped green . |
| 10 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 11 | However , air that is very damp can cause rot in the roofing timbers if it is evacuated in this way , so it is best to use ducting to the outside as well . |
| 12 | The reader develops an ability to respond to the visual as well as the literary . |
| 13 | With video we have the opportunity , if we want to take it , of paying attention to the visual as well . |
| 14 | The crowd gave a good send-off to the latter when he was substituted so I suppose he did well . |
| 15 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 16 | In terms of Henry Thornton 's antithesis between reputation and religion and the need to sacrifice the former to the latter if it aided the antislavery cause , Clarkson had sometimes seemed too attached to reputation . |
| 17 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 18 | So it was that in 1972 the knowledge that consistency paid off , that concentration was necessary , that racing went to the prudent as well as to the bold began to pay off for Emerson . |
| 19 | These chapters will be particularly interesting to the practising as well as to the trainee forensic scientist . |
| 20 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 21 | Section 5(2) — ( 4 ) deals with cases where property belongs to the accused before he dishonestly appropriates it . |
| 22 | There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 . |
| 23 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 24 | It comes with equal challenge to the religious as to the irreligious . |
| 25 | Sometimes the phrase " celebration of diversity " is used to point to the affective as well as cognitive impact which this approach would like to see in pupils . |
| 26 | Buju Banton , one of the top ragga MCs of the age , turns his hand to the cheery if slight subject of the bogle , a dance that 's bigger than Biggles in Jamaica . |
| 27 | Assuming a social code rather nearer to the Confucian than to our own , the man who wants to go to Bali might choose to obey his parents although convinced that to stay in England is both to his own disadvantage and of no real advantage to them . |
| 28 | Having looked gloomily into the windows of antique shops , and steered his way past lines of tipsy Tories , he returned to the Grand where a functionary manning the door noticed that he was not wearing a photo-pass . |
| 29 | I have some limited sale documents dating back to the 1920's when the Wyresdale Estate was broken up and properties sold . |
| 30 | The paranormal is automatically consigned to the demonic because it is not immediately biblical . |