Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for a non-working partner this allowance could be partially or wholly transferable to the working partner ; i.e. there was transferability of tax allowances . |
| 2 | This is not to suggest that Radio Nigeria , as the FRCN now describes itself , either ignores or is openly or blatantly unfair to the other parties . |
| 3 | The political attitudes articulated by journalists and writers were by no means either homogeneous or uniformly hostile to the government . |
| 4 | The business of manhandling sacks has been replaced by automation , the grain being conveyed mechanically or pneumatically direct to the mill . |
| 5 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 6 | A squint means that the eyes are not straight ; one is directed inwards or outwards relative to the other . |
| 7 | WHILE the doolally correspondence continues with old India hands by the dozen becoming involved , other words meaning idiot , and more or less exclusive to the North-East , are drying up . |
| 8 | And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ? |
| 9 | From the outside , the immediate impression is one of a traditional culture , with its own way of going on , more or less impenetrable to an outsider . |
| 10 | It is fair to say that by the time of the establishment of OEEC progress in Benelux had more or less ground to a halt . |
| 11 | They moved on to Warkworth , on the coast , where Forster was now more or less elected to the post of James 's general in England , though he and his followers knew little of the art of war , being described by one observer as ‘ fox hunters armed with dress swords ’ . |
| 12 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 13 | Despite this evidence , one can not preclude the possibility that the α-glucosidase inhibitors produce their effect solely by inhibiting absorption and that the acceleration of MCTT is a secondary phenomenon , more or less irrelevant to the percent absorption . |
| 14 | I was more or less resigned to a lifetime of the tearful half-hour . |
| 15 | I was more or less resigned to the way things had turned out and just got on with life . |
| 16 | In other regions we see scattered developments , again of figures which appear more or less subsidiary to the whole design . |
| 17 | These were more or less identical to the British Military overseas ambulance train . |
| 18 | The correlation does not hold in the case of marked themes as we shall see shortly , but , generally speaking , the distinction between theme and rheme is more or less identical to the traditional grammatical distinction between subject and predicate . |
| 19 | Rex and Moore 's classification was based upon research in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham , and it is more or less time-specific to the mid-1960s and applicable to medium-to large-sized cities . |
| 20 | Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city . |
| 21 | Out in force a week or so prior to the start of the meeting , they hunted for stories like lions seeking water on a drought-ridden veldt , lingering outside the security fences and eyeing the carabinieri , who would let none through without the appropriate pass . |
| 22 | It was not settled whether the indemnity be void under s 2(1) or only subject to a reasonableness test under s 4 . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) The offer may be made on the London Stock Exchange , or elsewhere subject to the FSA ( but the advantage of using the London Stock Exchange is that its procedures are tried and tested ) . |
| 24 | A closer look , however , would probably show you that each of these people has some talent or experience that is useful either in carrying out public relations or directly relevant to the client for whom they work . |
| 25 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 26 | He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance . |
| 27 | For about twenty-five years or more prior to the Poor Law Commission designating ‘ boy labour ’ a social problem , several attempts had been made to deal with the youth question by enrolling older children and young adolescents in a socially conservative youth movement , whose main features were discipline , religion , and organized leisure . |
| 28 | Is such an event appropriate for a process timescale or more pertinent to a chronology approach ? |
| 29 | The severity of oesophagitis was classified into five categories according to Savary 's criteria : ( a ) Grade 0 : absence of oesophageal injury ; ( b ) Grade I : presence of few isolated erosions ; ( c ) Grade II : presence of multiple longitudinal or confluent erosions ; ( d ) Grade III : presence of Barrett 's oesophagus or columnar lined distal oesophagus , diagnosed by endoscopy when the squamous columnar mucosal function was seen 3 cm or more proximal to the endoscopic location of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 30 | The distal end of the lower oesophageal sphincter represents the true oesophagogastric junction or cardia and if the squamous columnar junction is located 3 cm or more proximal to the proximal limit of this sphincter , a true Barrett 's oesophagus is present , which has been our criteria . |