Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corpora were built up in each case to over 10,000 words , then domain-specific collocation dictionaries compiled using the method described earlier . |
| 2 | What had changed was the distribution of employment so that although Japanese farms are very tiny , the threefold decline in agricultural employment to about 10 per cent of the labour force means that non-agricultural sectors now provide the bulk of small-firm employment . |
| 3 | And when Cardiff had shot Duvall , he had turned in helpless horror to where Rohmer sat , hands spread wide in appeal . |
| 4 | As to which chair to which to start , a more rectangular , less curved style will be easier , and you can progress in due course to more ornate and complicated styles . |
| 5 | In practice , however , the new republic 's distinguishing feature , in marked contrast to either the Third or the Fourth Republic , was the enormous power of the president . |
| 6 | There is even expected to be a slight fall in Latin America to less than 50 millions . |
| 7 | From 1795 to 1800 he was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel [ q.v. ] , during which time in 1797 he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy , and in the beginnings of his career he was indebted in different ways to both Samuel and his other architect uncle , James [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Globalization is the overarching process , linked in different ways to both integration and fragmentation . |
| 9 | The way that the subject of mental handicap is treated by the media is of crucial significance in public attitudes to mentally handicapped people . |
| 10 | If our Institute is unwilling to do this then it should at least campaign for legislation to restrict the use of the description ‘ accountant ’ in public practice to only qualified accountants with a practising certificate . |
| 11 | I 'd be very interested to know er in terms of U turns which I 'll come back to , how he 's going to deal with the next item on the agenda er , whereby the Liberal Democrats have been consistent about their policy in general with a lot of obstruction and being caused problems and how Mr will agree in this chamber to actually close some people 's homes , old people 's homes |
| 12 | All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea . |
| 13 | However , as far as possible , I aim to keep discussion of the peculiarities of the main media to the more specialized chapters which follow , and to confine the discussion in this chapter to reasonably broad principles . |
| 14 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 15 | In some instances the term equal opportunities refers to the attainments of girls , sometimes to gender differentiation in assessment , in some instances to both boys and girls , and occasionally to ethnic minority pupils … |
| 16 | Intense competition has led in some instances to quite unrealistic pricing and often , in consequence , to an unacceptable deterioration in quality and standards . |
| 17 | The plant 's production dived , in some cases to as little as one-eighth of the normal rate . |
| 18 | A willingness members to use district plans to back up county plans and in some cases to actually fund county wants to approve them . |
| 19 | But the second degree expressed outwardly in giving up the world with a heart wholly centred on Christ , seems to correspond in some ways to both the insuperable and inseparable stages of The Form and like them gives way to a third stage when the contemplative sees into heaven and is filled with the joy Rolle expresses as song : " prayers turnes intil joyful sange , and thoghtes to melody " ( 69.284 – 5 ) . |
| 20 | in some ways to though , I mean I can understand I think people , some people |
| 21 | Conversely , use of a matching strategy based on physical features should result in extended RTs to visually similar letters . |
| 22 | Concrete contains a considerable amount of free lime which is harmful in varying degrees to both fish and plants . |
| 23 | After a record rise in the spring , the price reaching £800 ( $1,300 ) a tonne for the first time , lead prices fell in early December to around £340 ( $660 ) a tonne as stocks built up in the face of sluggish demand from battery manufacturers . |
| 24 | Well we 're involved in actual fact to quite a heavy extent . |
| 25 | Take advantage of bath-time when hands have been soaking in warm water to gently push back cuticles with an orange stick . |
| 26 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 27 | A viewpoint which is in stark contrast to so many so-called protestants who grovel at the feet of Israel and its un-Godly and alien occupants . |
| 28 | The details of the temperature variation with altitude are uncertain above about 150 km altitude , but high in the thermosphere temperatures are typically 850 K and can be as high as 1300 K. Calculations indicate that absorption of solar uv radiation would only raise temperatures in these regions to about 200 K. Clearly , extra sources of heating are required . |
| 29 | The carp-fisher , with his array of matched stepped-up rods and bait-runner reels , electronic bleepers and burpers , needle and bobbin indicators — not to mention baits that require a degree in organic chemistry to fully understand — is no different to the Koi-keeper who must have the latest colour-enhancing food , all dancing filters and show-quality fish . |
| 30 | Presumably not the minor detail that young Anne was a designing little minx who married Henry in cold blood to further her own ambitions — and then did n't even have the sense or decency to stand by her bargain . ’ |