Example sentences of "[adv] to the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 2 | There was a great round of applause when the dance ended and , flushed with excitement , Cora-Beth responded eagerly to the pressure of Harry 's hand as he kept possession of hers . |
| 3 | The National Union also reacted fiercely to the attacks on Younger by coalitionist ministers , most of all Birkenhead 's description of him as " the cabin boy " and Lloyd George 's of " a second-class brewer " . |
| 4 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 5 | He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan . |
| 6 | The Riverside Theatre Foyer Gallery on the Coleraine Campus and the Foyer Gallery in the Faculty of Art and Design 's Belfast Campus promote regular monthly exhibitions , on view daily to the public during office hours , except weekends . |
| 7 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 8 | The list of people who have profited from crime and murder through book or film rights is growing almost daily to the consternation of victim support groups and grieving relatives . |
| 9 | We were fascinated by the lither , graceful women , effortlessly balancing judge , beautiful towers of fruit on their heads , which they took daily to the temples for blessing . |
| 10 | Maybe partners will come to feel that schools will respond better to the aims of education set out in the 1988 Education Act if they are not tied to curricula based on the traditional subjects alone . |
| 11 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 12 | Diverse elements that owe much to the jazz-rap of groups like A Tribe Called Quest rub shoulders with the jazz guitar sound pioneered by West Montgomery and Grant Green . |
| 13 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 14 | Although the struggle took place outside the formal boundaries of local politics and the council was involved only at the margins , it forced unemployment onto the agenda , much to the advantage of Labour . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 16 | Much to the alarm of narcotics agents , cultivation is spreading as farmers seek cash to protect themselves from the hardships of war . |
| 17 | Pittsburgh has a strong neighbourhood heritage and its Rand McNally citation as ‘ most livable city in the USA ’ in 1985 owed much to the feelings of intimacy residents felt towards their neighbourhood . |
| 18 | Such growth owed much to the sense of purpose and national identity gained through petitioning Parliament . |
| 19 | That cosmopolitan mouse Mickey is a roaring success , it seems , much to the chagrin of Warburgs , one of the sponsors of the Eurodisney float . |
| 20 | Still to come ; Atlanta Georgia is to host the 1996 Olympics much to the chagrin of Athens and Manchester . |
| 21 | The great Civil War battle of Marston Moor , in the vales of Yorkshire , in July 1644 , with Parliamentary troops under the command of Cromwell , Fairfax and Leven , with Lord Manchester in overall command , resulted in a great victory for Parliament , but it was not followed up by Lord Manchester , much to the chagrin of Cromwell , and the Royalists managed a considerable victory in September of that year , at Lostwithiel , thirty miles west of Plymouth . |
| 22 | Being a lapsed nob has its compensations for Bubbles when young Sloane wife Phoebe Fenton ( Francesca Brill ) refuses to leave the compound after a fortnight of sleeping with him , much to the chagrin of hubby Ian ( Gareth Forwood ) . |
| 23 | He contributed much to the life of York , and was held in high regard there . |
| 24 | She lands without a hitch — her first solo flight over — much to the relief of mum and dad . |
| 25 | The whole incident made the short cut longer than the long cut but in time we reached the approach to the camp , much to the relief of Hassan who seemed to have less and less faith in the Second Son 's navigation . |
| 26 | Sotheby 's continues its cost-cutting format of having multiple lot colour illustrations far distanced from the cataloguing , much to the irritation of buyers who were seen constantly frantically flipping back and forth . |
| 27 | Many people furthermore ( much to the irritation of utilitarians , it must be said ) will think it right and proper to give tea and cake to the healthy beggar at their own gate but think little of those starving overseas ; they are someone else 's business , it is argued . |
| 28 | This gripping drama owes much to the shades of menace hinted at in Caffrey 's Man , and the semi-hysterical flutterings of O'Mahoney 's King , who has long since toppled from his throne . |
| 29 | The strict interpretation of statute , an important feature of the sixteenth century , owed much to the invention of printing . |
| 30 | It is certainly not intended to add much to the knowledge of multimedia experts . |