Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Animals with much simpler ears and brains than us can reduce the problem further by only responding to very narrow frequency bands . |
| 2 | Opposite the hotel was a refugee camp with children who were constantly trying to part unwary tourists from their money . |
| 3 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 4 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 5 | This is not owing to purely commercial considerations . |
| 6 | A development currently under trial in Germany is ‘ short-axis ’ logging , in which the pad-mounted sensors are oriented to travel on the short-axis , thus responding to relatively undamaged formation characteristics . |
| 7 | HRH The Prince of Wales encapsulated this aspiration at the Action for Wales Conference in Cardiff in 1991 — ‘ I believe the need for thorough and thoughtful environment education is , perhaps , greater than ever because increased environmental awareness and concern are only slowly leading to more environmental action . |
| 8 | There is a great deal of support in the EC for such a discriminatory tax , eventually rising to as much as $10 a barrel . |
| 9 | But most of the population forecasts from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys suggests probably going to about fifty eight million by the early twenty-first century or the turn of the century , but the structure will be different . |
| 10 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 11 | Today we have many old students who have not taken undergraduate or post-graduate degrees , but rather have qualified with Diplomas or Certificates , often relating to very specialised areas of expertise . |
| 12 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |
| 13 | Dr Helen ApSimon of Imperial College estimates that British ammonia emissions have increased by 50 per cent since 1950 , mainly owing to more intensive livestock production and use of agricultural fertilisers . |
| 14 | This is a series of square cloth-covered books , now amounting to about twenty volumes , in which every detail of every Lagerfeld day is collected in the form of polaroids , clippings , notes , little drawings . |
| 15 | Rocks are classified chemically according to how much silica ( silicon dioxide ) they contain ; rocks with a lot of silica are known as acid . |
| 16 | tell I were n't going to about half past six , seven . |
| 17 | There are also parts here belonging to about thirty other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 18 | There are also parts here belonging to about 30 other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 19 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |
| 20 | A further complication , sometimes leading to rather severe methodological problems , is introduced in some divergent dialect communities by radical differences in phonological structure between the supra-local and the local prestige norm(s) . |
| 21 | ( The Royal Navy and Air Force would nevertheless continue to maintain their presence — then amounting to around 900 personnel — on the peninsula . ) |
| 22 | Who are we talking about , no not Angus , the man is Wesley Snipe , currently trying to out cool co-star Sean Connery in the hit movie Rising Sun . |