Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do this to the extent of saying as Agatha Christie ( who abandoned Hercule Poirot 's charmingly bumbling Captain Hastings quite early ) does in One , Two , Buckle my Shoe ; " For the first time Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the right way up . " |
| 2 | Difficult decisions will need to be made to ensure that commissioned research is sufficiently responsive to the needs of purchasing authorities but at the same time of sufficient scientific rigour to attract good quality academic researchers . |
| 3 | The CPP , which was happy to go along with the election , seems averse to the idea of losing it . |
| 4 | One problem of working in limited specialty areas is that existing clients might be averse to the idea of employing the same search firm as their rivals ; so Merton , approached by another major retailer with an assignment , cleared the matter with Tesco first . |
| 5 | I had no wish to marry anyone now that I could n't marry Nour , but I was particularly averse to the idea of marrying my mother . |
| 6 | First I make the mistake of falling in love with this man who probably wo n't remember what I look like the minute I leave this place , even though he 's not averse to the idea of making love to me while we 're under the same roof . |
| 7 | Left Book Club groups were capable of immense effort on occasion , but they could not reach as wide an audience as the Local Parties and were unsuited to the work of winning over Labour opinion by consistent effort . |
| 8 | Genetic recombination is analogous to the process of producing one functional motor car by combining the engine from one broken-down car with the gearbox from another . |
| 9 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 10 | Similar to the idea of producing remedies from disease processes which can then be used to treat the effects of that disease is the idea of potentizing individual substances to counteract allergies and sensitivities to them . |
| 11 | Similar to the process of forming maternal bonds , is that of forging sexual bonds . |
| 12 | Lexical access in automatic speech processing is central to the process of transforming a description of a physical event into a description which is composed of units of meaning . |
| 13 | We argue therefore , now as in our sixth report , that among the critical requirements in an INSET programme are the following : the diversity of teachers ' needs must be acknowledged and addressed ; teachers themselves must be central to the process of defining their needs ; and to meet diverse needs there must be diverse INSET programmes : not just as to their content and level , but also in their style and venue . |
| 14 | We argued that the critical requirements in an INSET programme are that the very diverse needs of different teachers be recognized and addressed , that teachers themselves be central to the process of defining their needs , and that diverse needs be met by diverse provision , in respect of not just content and level but also style and venue . |
| 15 | The lack of detail in recalls made it impossible to adequately divide information into central and peripheral , however , in the sense that most information given was related to events on the road , the information which was recalled should probably be categorized as largely central to the task of driving . |
| 16 | This is in no way contradictory to the principle of allowing a site to speak to us , but illumines a different aspect of our experience . |
| 17 | Along with the building and waterfront trades , garbage collection is a stronghold of the organised-crime syndicates whose nefarious activities add so much to the cost of doing business in New York . |
| 18 | Cheerful idleness was a thing of the past — and so was a readiness for whole hearted participation in activities unrelated to the business of getting grades . |
| 19 | The early efforts are low-budget romps , akin to the kind of shambling college-project material that 's usually the preserve of British indie outfits , but things become slicker as the band mature , as evidenced by ‘ Sunless Saturday ’ — a cinematic masterstroke that finds Spike Lee adding claustrophobic visuals to a song that embodies the oppressive squalor of Fishbone 's native Los Angeles . |
| 20 | As the law requiring £40 landowners to take up knighthood was seldom observed , the sumptuary acts conceded that it was reasonable for the many men who did not choose to do so to adopt the dress appropriate to the standard of living they must certainly have enjoyed . |
| 21 | Crucial to the success of selling carpets is the manner in which they are displayed in retail carpet shops . |
| 22 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 23 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 24 | People have become ever more hostile to the idea of living near a rubbish dump . |
| 25 | Maddock reports that most firms are hostile to the idea of moving people between civil and military sectors : ‘ There already exists a large culture gap and it is getting even wider . ’ |
| 26 | It was confused , slow to change — a factor amplified by the fact that there was no party conference between October 1937 and May 1939 — and deliberately hostile to the idea of working with other anti-fascist groups . |
| 27 | That is subordinate to the business of routing out the cancer where it occurs . |
| 28 | Paradoxical to the process of delineating a chronology of events in her children 's development , the notion of continuity is fundamental to Mann 's photography . |
| 29 | Lucky to the extent of meeting a friend who had had the foresight to order a bottle of champagne for the interval . |
| 30 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |