Example sentences of "[adv] to such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 2 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 3 | He did so to such purpose that he subsequently wrote several widely acclaimed technical books on the processing of steel and in 1920 received the Bessemer gold medal of the Iron and Steel Institute . |
| 4 | The word ‘ natural ’ will still be allowed , says the Ministry of Agriculture 's Food Advisory Committee , for ‘ single foods of a traditional nature to which nothing has been added and which have been subjected only to such processing as to render them suitable for human consumption . |
| 5 | to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of the holders of ordinary shares where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of the ordinary shareholders are proportionate ( as nearly as may be ) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held or deemed to be held by them , subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , legal or practical problems arising in any overseas territory or by virtue of shares being represented by depositary receipts , the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange , or any other matter ; and |
| 6 | Freedom to manifest one 's religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety , for the protection of public order , health or morals , or for the protection of the rights and freedom of others . |
| 7 | Initially the problem seemed to apply only to such expanses of water as swimming pools , rivers and the sea . |
| 8 | I would allow the appeal only to such extent as may be necessary to enable the order which , in a changed situation , this court made on 30 June to be substituted for that made by Thorpe J. |
| 9 | A more important question , however , is whether portfolio matrices can be sensibly applied only to such conglomerates . |
| 10 | thirdly , and perhaps most importantly , any person taking a registrable charge over the company 's property ( and only to such persons ) will have notice of any matter requiring registration and disclosed . |
| 11 | This rule applies only to such services as may properly be offered as part of a solicitor 's practice . |
| 12 | It appears that the rights of an owner of land in the airspace above his land extend only to such height as is necessary for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the land and any structure upon it ( Bernstein of Leigh ( Baron ) v Skyviews & General Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 479 ) . |
| 13 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 14 | The cultural field expands thus to such a point that it bursts through the barriers that had previously contained it as only a de-limited field . |
| 15 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 16 | It is exceptional to find passages of any great length scored only for wind instruments , but short passages which lend themselves readily and easily to such treatment are of excellent effect and provide good contrast . |
| 17 | The volume may be judged by an anecdote of a teacher in Massachusetts , a comparatively liberal state , which has come only lately to such activity and to a degree which would be surpassed by many other states . |
| 18 | But never before has Moses been accused of lording it over the people ( some words of Korah in verse 3 of this same chapter come close to such a charge ) and never before has Egypt been called ‘ a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 19 | But a crucial ingredient in their success was the fielding of the team ( with Bland at the forefront ) and if Jonty Rhodes can inspire his team to come even close to such heights then the South African team of the 1990s may well go one step further than their illustrious predecessors . |
| 20 | Surely French hopes would not collapse now , so close to such a long awaited triumph . |
| 21 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 22 | However , we can by no means stick slavishly to such a rule , for good harmonic flow needs variety in spacing intervals , and in any case we may wish to avoid smooth harmony and have something pungent , harsh , and bitter . |
| 23 | Clearly there is more to such cross-species communication than a merely self-centred ‘ survival of the fittest ’ . |
| 24 | With Twinkle dead , Bud-Eli-Fritz settles into a new life in a trailer park in El Monte , home to such Pink Flamingos -style crazies as Diane Ladd and Sixties psychedelic leftover Timothy Leary . |
| 25 | But fields that have been heavily dosed with chemical weedkillers and fertilizers would take centuries to become home to such a wealth of wildlife . |
| 26 | Arguing that " developing information skills in isolation is nonsense " , the proposal goes on to predict the development of an information skills course to be related directly to such courses as environmental studies and social education . |
| 27 | Although some differences appear to stem more or less directly from inequalities in wealth and power , others appear to be associated with attitudes and values which can not be related directly to such inequalities ; an example is the preference of British working-class mothers for bottle-feeding rather than breast-feeding their babies . |
| 28 | In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance . |
| 29 | The capacity to use young leaves with a high protein content may have permitted the emergence of large primates in the first place , but primates capable of remembering the sites and fruiting and leafing patterns of a wide variety of plants , could move more directly to such food , when and where available , more efficiently than those searching randomly . |
| 30 | The Cabinet came very near to such a decision . |