Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysts interpreted the outcome as indicative of widespread disenchantment with the economic reform programme of the Mazowiecki government , launched in January and the most far-reaching in Eastern Europe to date [ see p. 37194 ] , which had precipitated a sharp rise in unemployment and a fall in living standards . |
| 2 | I visit without warning to find a happy and productive school — obviously due in great measure to the personality and competence of the headmistress . |
| 3 | In this category we might expect to find phonological and grammatical features which are sufficiently different from British English to be salient , but which do not involve , in J.C . |
| 4 | Ifor worked in the mines , played his rugby and read poetry : dangerous work , hard sport and learning ; a masculine ideal come down unalloyed from Ancient Greece to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 5 | It is today less dismissive of other approaches to the study of social life and has found a niche as a specialized way of analysing how people make sense of , construct , and confirm their world-view and their way of life . |
| 6 | runs well it 's so easy for other groups to , to try and get you to help them out . |
| 7 | He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare . |
| 8 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 9 | In the first generation there will be some dozens of intelligent young mulattoes , much superior in average intelligence to the negroes . |
| 10 | In contrast , some contemporary clinicians who have discussed the topic have been much less enthusiastic about connecting creativity to psychosis . |
| 11 | Apple has been highly sensitive about proprietary rights to its Windowing software , but is said to be considering striking a deal with Unix System Labs over the technology . |
| 12 | Identification among the members of a crowd , or group , leads to demands for all to be equal ; given the numbers involved , it is not possible for particular individuals to be the favourite , so a reaction-formation grows up , expressed as a group demand for social justice and equality . |
| 13 | Japan 's huge trade surplus , the report said , was not due to inadequate access to its markets . |
| 14 | Inorganic pollution is not harmful to aquatic life to the same extent , unless it happens to be toxic ; thus its consequences are frequently less evident . |
| 15 | By ‘ symphonically conceived ’ I mean relying on large-scale musical argument rather than on imagery derived from what the Germans call ‘ applied music ’ , angewandte Musik ( for stage , film , circus , etc. ) and by extension , not dependent on overt reference to contemporary events . |
| 16 | It is not easy with new clients to truly understand their culture and to find a range of people for a short list who would truly fit into that organisation . |
| 17 | The enforcement of these different forms of accountability may not be easy , and voluntary organisations are not subject to direct accountability to the electorate , as are local authorities . |
| 18 | However , some forms of analysis — those carried out infrequently or for which the determinand is especially complex or poorly defined — are not amenable to conventional approaches to analytical quality control ( AQC ) . |
| 19 | Remember that it is not unusual for strong winds to be associated with high pressure , although strong winds and gales are more frequently encountered in low pressure systems . |
| 20 | Frost-hardening may affect some tissues but not others ; it is not unusual for well-established tissues to be hardened but for buds and growing shoots to be nipped by frost . |
| 21 | IT IS NOT unusual for scientific predictions to be made long before techniques are available to test them — and it is particularly satisfying when such predictions are at last fulfilled . |
| 22 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 23 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 24 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
| 25 | This means , in effect , that these gases are not effective for local application to a fire within racking . |
| 26 | For , surprisingly , it is not illegal for other conditions to be treated by medically unqualified people as long as such people do not claim to be doctors . |
| 27 | While it contains some sensitive commercial information , and is not suitable for free distribution to everyone , I know they will draw on it further in their discussions about creating the new structure . |
| 28 | Many fear the collapse of a society which is not undergirded by religious principles to which the young are trained to commit themselves . |
| 29 | The length of the synthetic sequence should be long enough for a pattern to emerge ; the length of the four sequences given above is not sufficient for reliable conclusions to be drawn . |
| 30 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |