Example sentences of "[adj] to what [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minimum number of prey items in the predator assemblages is based on the highest number of any single element in the assemblage , but it is not possible without direct experimental observation to extrapolate back from this to what the predator actually ate ( Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | That 's no different to what the situation is now , it was there before , the difference is that the banker is different . |
| 3 | The title was not mine , and the word ‘ Breeds ’ in the title suggested something different to what the article purported to say . |
| 4 | ‘ It might seem obvious to say it , but the essential thing is to listen real hard to what the band is doing ! |
| 5 | The angry owner then proceeds to whack the dog , thus reinforcing the idea that if the dog comes back , he receives a whack , which is totally opposite to what the owner is trying to achieve . |
| 6 | Its more partial to what the paper calls SVR4.3 when its all integrated sometime next summer . |
| 7 | It 's the fairest way of ensuring that those affected by each route are able to what the case for and against that route is . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But , ’ says West , ‘ it lost its magic and disturbing quality — and from that time on , he began to respond much more to what the audience expected him to be — and much less to all the original feeling he had shown for it . ’ |
| 9 | Usually , however , you will be concerned with getting as close as possible to what the author of the text ( not a later editor or printer ) wanted it to be . |
| 10 | The task of the salesman is both to establish an ongoing relationship with his customer , and also to charge as close as possible to what the market will bear . |
| 11 | Anyone who in ordinary life interpreted words literally , being indifferent to what the speaker or writer meant , would be regarded as a pedant , a mischief-maker or an idiot . |
| 12 | I welcome your speech because you have a quite a good habit of optimistic outlook future which is contrary to what a lot of other chairmen are saying . |
| 13 | Contrary to what the course books say , we do distinguish between familiar and formal modes of address in English , between tu and usted . |
| 14 | Some other research suggests — quite contrary to what the theory of individual deterrence would have us believe — that offenders who suffer more severe penalties are more ( not less ) likely to re-offend ( West , 1992 : 109 ; Brody , 1976 : 14–16 ) . |
| 15 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , entirely contrary to what the Leader of the Opposition has just said , the settlement that he has won will be welcomed by the overwhelming majority of people in this country ? |
| 16 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 17 | Contrary to what the right is claiming , France 's government is not paralysed . |
| 18 | These findings suggest that , at the time of the act , helping agencies were regarded as irrelevant to what the person wanted to achieve , or unhelpful on the basis of previous experience of them . |
| 19 | We do enough succession planning in C U you know it 's magic you know , you know number two like it 's smashing number two it 's still you know , you know young children , number two has a different connotation to what it does here , but definitely if you are a number two here , it means the same to what a child thinks it is , but I |
| 20 | The symptoms are close to what a soldier feels before battle . |
| 21 | There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced . |
| 22 | Biographical details are not relevant to what the Cloud-author and Walter Hilton have to say , and about Julian we know only those circumstances which immediately impinge on her visionary experience . |
| 23 | Yet it is a piece of knowledge relevant to what the speaker is talking about and , importantly , knowledge which the speaker assumes is available , to his hearer . |
| 24 | They are relevant to what the speaker wishes to provide as an answer to the question , given the particular hearer he has . |
| 25 | For example , in the following sentence : Since the last time we met when we had that huge dinner Ive been on a diet the first two tone-units present information which is relevant to what the speaker is saying , but which is not something new and unknown to the listener . |
| 26 | So that erm although you 're entitled to what a native of that country would get , so long as you 're in the European Community , even that can vary . |