Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1980 acidity had increased sixfold to pH 4.3 . |
| 2 | From the growing disillusionment of the Spanish experience in 1937 , Nizan was led inexorably to incredulity and disbelief during the Munich crisis of September 1938 , and ultimately to bewilderment and total despair following the Nazi-Soviet pact and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 . |
| 3 | That path leads inexorably to procrastination . |
| 4 | Such compromise would , he suggested , lead inexorably to censorship to ‘ protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation ’ . |
| 5 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 6 | That poor unfortunate had to stoke the fire , pump the tilly lamps , dash upstream to unblock the water pipe , boil the kettle — on the open fire — and arrive back at the card table an exhausted , nervous wreck . |
| 7 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 8 | The male stickleback migrates upstream to breeding grounds in Spring . |
| 9 | Some people work better to music while others do not . |
| 10 | It is considered better to work , over a period of time , with the family as well as the child , providing whatever support , training or care appear to be appropriate at different stages of development . |
| 11 | Another reason for adopting this approach is that infants born to mothers who have no perinatal risk factors suffer from less severe infections and respond better to treatment . |
| 12 | Our study showed that constipated children <2 years of age responded better to treatment than children >2 years of age , supporting the conclusion by Clayden that treatment should be given early to prevent development of severe constipation or faecal soiling , or both . |
| 13 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 14 | Popular , so better to book you table . |
| 15 | The whole process became disheartening and , although I tried various mantras , from words I repeated endlessly to candle flames that I stared at , my thoughts always got the better of me . |
| 16 | ‘ Goodnight , O , ’ and then she turned suddenly to Boy and said to him , very pointedly : |
| 17 | Substantial memory melted suddenly to consciousness of present loss . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the pattern of Japan 's postwar history owes much to Occupation policy . |
| 19 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 20 | It was a beginning , but 1815 was reached with not much to acclaim in day-school provision for working-class children and with no national policy as yet in prospect . |
| 21 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 22 | The headhunting business as a whole , although it promotes the idea of systematising personal networks , still owes much to chance , coincidence and Lady Luck . |
| 23 | The author 's experience in Africa and Australia , and his study in Europe , convinced him that the participative training techniques developed by the ATB had much to otter agricultural progress in all countries , third world developing countries as well as developed countries . |
| 24 | He has contributed much to music in the Farnham area during the last 20 years and the many supporters of the Tilford Bach Festival will no doubt want to hear what will be only the second performance of his work . |
| 25 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | United owed much to goalkeeper Rees , who had earlier saved superbly from Holden and later denied Adams , first with a block with his feet then by kicking over a dipping effort from the right . |
| 27 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 28 | ‘ There ca n't be much to farm around Caldbeck , can there ? |
| 29 | Dinah was never greatly interested in her , nor was there much to interest anyone . |
| 30 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |