Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hospital in nearby Teplice reported the number of child patients had doubled , mostly due to respiratory problems . |
| 2 | The board 's scientists estimate that radon in Wales can be blamed for about 110 deaths a year , or 6pc of the 2,000 lung cancer deaths , mostly due to smoking cigarettes , and about 85 ( 1pc ) of the 8,500 deaths annually from malignancies . |
| 3 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 4 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 5 | The £1.5million show by the CEGB also showed that Mark 1 coaches are remarkably resilient to high-speed impacts . |
| 6 | The emphasis on Edgar 's law is understandable , as Wulfstan evidently considered it the most favourable to the church and the most conducive to righteous rule . |
| 7 | Daylight is most conducive to good growth . |
| 8 | The organisational structure most conducive to high performance depends on whether the environment is stable and simple , or changing and complex . |
| 9 | We also found that , although samples from the same section gave consistently positive or negative amplification , serial sections from the same tissue block sometimes gave discordant results , presumably due to non-uniform distribution of mycobacteria within the tissue block . |
| 10 | Fragmentation of ‘ Sun-grazing ’ and ‘ Jupiter-grazing ’ comets , presumably due to tidal stresses , suggests that at least some comets may have extremely low tensile strengths of 10 3 –10 5 dyncm -2 . |
| 11 | In post-Neolithic religious ideologies , however , attitudes to nature and to animal suffering became dissociated , and nature — in the sense of wilderness — came to be seen as fundamentally antagonistic to human interests ; a source of weeds , pests , predators and the dark forces of chaos . |
| 12 | Simply by putting relatively isolated community groups together Highlander is able to convey a sense of purpose to these groups which springs from the confidence gained by the realisation that their problems are not confined to themselves , nor in most cases caused by any deficiency or fault of their own , but are rather due to outside forces of oppression which are also being used against other people in other communities . |
| 13 | The metal filling the pouring hole was usually left untrimmed after it had cooled , so that many of the figurines have a peg under their bases : even the best figures — and some of them ( see Figures 2 and 30 ) are very fine — may seem rather unfinished to modern eyes . |
| 14 | Psychotic illness itself is frequently a discontinuous event and mostly inimical to organised thought . |
| 15 | ( The latter 's carriage had had to be abandoned early on due to defective harness . ) |
| 16 | Differences in level of skill are partly but not wholly attributable to different locations on a learning curve which has some uniformity for that particular skill . |
| 17 | This goes a long way towards explaining the awkwardness felt by the foreign learner in conversation an awkwardness which does not seem wholly attributable to faulty or slow processing of grammar and vocabulary . |
| 18 | But Teutonic gravitas marks his most typical work and he is strikingly responsive to German verse . |
| 19 | There is some evidence that practical family planning first began amongst what F. B. Smith calls the ‘ self instructed classes ’ , not the upper middle classes but those most responsive to radical propaganda . |
| 20 | Crompton and Jones claim that employers use the grade structure to encourage loyalty and dedication from employees , but in reality many of the lower level management and administrative jobs are little different to clerical work . |
| 21 | Works councils have been particularly important in securing improvements in working conditions and other non-wage elements since many of these are so specific to individual workplaces that they can not be regulated by means of a general , industry-wide agreement . |
| 22 | There was ‘ in the English constitution an absence of those declarations or definitions of rights so dear to foreign constitutionalists ’ , but this was a strength rather than a weakness ; whereas ‘ general rights guaranteed by the constitution may be , and in foreign countries , constantly are , suspended ’ , the English emphasis on specific remedies protected by legislation and the courts meant that ‘ the suspension of the constitution , as far as such a thing can be conceived possible , would mean with us nothing less than a revolution ’ . |
| 23 | She would have experienced that glow of virtue which is so conducive to easy dieting . |
| 24 | Here Leonard discovered the Greek way of life — its alternating rhythms of work and leisure , both on the seasonal and the daily basis , which are so conducive to creative thought and achievement . |
| 25 | A wider range of issues associated with quantitative analysis ( not necessarily specific to sociolinguistic research ) is explored in 6.8 . |
| 26 | Cause I 'm I 'm so used to small dogs . |
| 27 | On my last visit I swam in the Grjótagjá pools — a true delight for someone so young and so unused to mixed nude dipping . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher is very much alive to new ideas , ‘ ideas that support and implement her view of the world ’ , as somebody inside her ideas market put it . |
| 29 | Almond and Verba conducted their fieldwork in 1959 , in an era of unprecedented growth and low unemployment , conditions which were perhaps conducive to consensual party politics and lack of impassioned political activism . |
| 30 | At the same time , shoppers are becoming highly receptive to new technology . |