Example sentences of "[adv] [det] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air now passes down this to the mouth of the fish which is connected to tiny openings in the parchment cocoon . |
| 2 | No the village ones did n't come so much to the muckle suppers . |
| 3 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
| 4 | But Wagner 's art , so irresistible and so much to the fore in Nietzsche 's thinking , seemed to presuppose some value other than — or in addition to — beauty : and was this not also true of Greek art , on the basis of which the theory of beauty had been largely formed ? |
| 5 | now that is wrong because nobody should be committed so much to the hilt that they ca n't have a family |
| 6 | Finally , can I thank , on your behalf , the sterling efforts of all heads of departments and staff at Trinity Road , and all my colleagues in our Council and Committees whose efforts mean so much to the work of the Association . |
| 7 | I am only one of the many who owe so much to the man . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | True , Lupus exhorted Charles " not to subject himself so much to the influence of one man so that he did everything according to that man 's will " . |
| 10 | These areas of activity are dealt with in detail elsewhere in this report but I am very pleased in this foreword to highlight a most successful year of achievement — a year which owed so much to the inspiration given to use all by those who saved the Nation in 1940 . |
| 11 | At the same time , we shall be able to identify features of style which belong not so much to the subject , as to James 's characteristic way of handling it . |
| 12 | He forces you to work at controlling the character because he brings so much to the part . ’ |
| 13 | To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves . |
| 14 | As always , Elizabeth shows herself a thoroughly English writer in her sensitiveness to the vagaries of the weather and to minor class distinctions ; and whatever Dr Johnson may say about the unimportance of the former or contemporary prigs about the latter , they contribute so much to the variety of life and conversation in England . |
| 15 | They must have quality given to them because their varying dimensions can add so much to the design . |
| 16 | In a study of Oahu , one of the Hawaiian islands , Wentworth ( 1939 ) attributed the solution not so much to the action of the sea but more to the effect of fresh water seeping from the land at sea level . |
| 17 | With a riveter Two riveters and a holder-on , and then the boy got so much to the pound . |
| 18 | After after the boy The boy was paid so much to the pound then the rest was divided three ways by the two riveters and the the holder-on . |
| 19 | " This division was adapted not so much to the fertility or equal territorial extent of each share , as to the family connections ( affinitas ) , and the interests and commitments ( congruentia ) , of everyone involved " — that is to say , not of the kings alone , but of all twenty-four commissioners and beyond them , of their comrades , kin , friends and clients . |
| 20 | My first car , an MG TC , was the best car I 've ever owned — it left so much to the imagination ! |
| 21 | The MG TC : ‘ Left so much to the imagination , ’ says a reader |
| 22 | He gave so much to the side : speed , commitment , control and continuity ’ . |
| 23 | For a man who has contributed so much to the world of chemistry , could we do any less ? |
| 24 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 25 | I am glad that I did not miss that intervention , because it has contributed so much to the debate . |
| 26 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 27 | Rob and Sarah Morrison are two of those shadowy figures who have contributed so much to the growth of freestyle in Britain . |
| 28 | Presumably he intended it to fire up his own team , but predictably it did just that to the opposition . |
| 29 | Oh , well , she sighed , as she climbed into bed , it 's probably all to the good . |
| 30 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |