Example sentences of "[adv] to the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police referred daily to the current price of gold announced by Johnson Matthey and pitched the prices they offered appropriately to the form of dealing in which they purported to be engaged . |
| 2 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 3 | However , an angry or attacking tiger lays its ears back and surely a mere flashing of the ears can not add much to the general appearance of anger and aggression mirrored in the whole body of the beast . |
| 4 | I suspect that Mrs Moore 's sense of humour contributed much to the genuine streak of misanthropy in Lewis 's nature . |
| 5 | Yet the popularity of vegetarianism owes much to the great variety of vegetables and fruits and lower costs achieved by the expanding exploitation of the Third World as a market garden . |
| 6 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 7 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 8 | Not always through royal initiative , and certainly not by a deliberate policy , Edward I 's reign witnessed some major developments much to the long-term disadvantage of the English church . |
| 9 | The reasoning owed much to the following extract of the speech of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd . |
| 10 | This corresponds broadly with the approach of the previous chapter , and owes much to the Weberian analysis of bureaucracy . |
| 11 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 12 | It was frequently used by statesmen — Palmerston , Gladstone — to provide a moral gloss to a foreign policy that actually owed little to principle and much to the pragmatic calculus of the balance of power . |
| 13 | Many of them contribute much to the musical life of those congregations whose members enjoy singing to the accompaniment of steel bands and a variety of other musical instruments , with their distinctive rhythms and harmonies . |
| 14 | There were economic motives , for the crusades owed much to the commercial enterprise of the Italian cities . |
| 15 | Liley , on Leicester 's behalf , also scored all their points , the try being a six-man effort which owed much to the common sense of Boyle and the alertness of Rory Underwood , whose final Twickenham appearance , after all , will be this Saturday when the RAF meet the Army . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there are good grounds for thinking that the ‘ pay explosion ’ owed much to the institutional structure of British industrial relations [ Phelps Brown , 1975 ] . |
| 17 | Some of these livings they were certainly granted by the influence of English churchmen and the king , eager to retain representatives at the Curia , but the majority seem to have been acquired through papal provision : the pope was remunerating his servants out of the English church 's endowments , much to the growing fury of English patrons and politicians . |
| 18 | Finally , Chapter 8 deals with the dynamics of composite systems in a manner which owes much to the pioneering work of Kron . |
| 19 | The techniques which emerged to deal with this kind of problem owed much to the pioneering work of R.A. Fisher , and others , and involved elaborations of the classic form of experimental design . |
| 20 | THE DEVELOPMENT of child guidance in Scotland owes much to the pioneering work of Anne T Paterson , who died on Sunday at her Edinburgh home . |
| 21 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 22 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 23 | John Pecham , who gave such authoritative impetus to the Church 's mission to teach the laity , was a Franciscan and his Constitutions and their effect owed much to the dynamic nature of Franciscan spirituality with its stress on the freedoms of love and poverty and the importance of knowledge of the Scriptures . |
| 24 | Thus , the marked advance of women in education and in the professions in the seventies was a notable , if belated testament to social advance , even if some of this progress owed much to the belligerent assertiveness of the feminist movement as well . |
| 25 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 26 | The decline of purity feminism in the 1920s and 1930s needs to be seen in relation to the overall decline of feminism , and especially to the unmitigated hostility of male sex reformers . |
| 27 | Since ferric iron is poorly absorbed from the small intestine , that secreted into gastric juice ( ca 0.2 mg/l ) will contribute appreciably to the daily loss of about 1 mg of endogenous iron . |
| 28 | We have just defined the general equivalent transformation , and this leads naturally to the important concept of equivalent matrices . |
| 29 | The establishment of Georgia completed the process of coastal settlement , and it was close enough to the Spanish colony of Florida to open up a new area of conflict . |
| 30 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |