Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 2 | If anything , they seemed rather receptive to the idea of talking about invasion of the locality by monsters from deep space . |
| 3 | The startling rise is mostly due to the privatisations of state companies , boosted with high-profile advertising and low share prices . |
| 4 | the radiation dose here goes up to 5 Sv and was mostly due to γ-rays . |
| 5 | In particular , the Home-Grown Cereals Authority reports exports of wheat 30 per cent were down on the previous harvest — mostly due to dearer prices . |
| 6 | The imbalance is mostly due to the vigour of Brazil 's export industries , its sickly demand for imports and , with respect to Argentina , an under-valued exchange rate . |
| 7 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis |
| 9 | ‘ We regularly get complaints about drugs but it is mostly due to publicity from drug raves in the rest of the UK , ’ he said . |
| 10 | A hospital in nearby Teplice reported the number of child patients had doubled , mostly due to respiratory problems . |
| 11 | The board 's scientists estimate that radon in Wales can be blamed for about 110 deaths a year , or 6pc of the 2,000 lung cancer deaths , mostly due to smoking cigarettes , and about 85 ( 1pc ) of the 8,500 deaths annually from malignancies . |
| 12 | All too often , however , we see him angry , hurt , suspicious of friends as much as enemies , rarely grateful to those who stuck their necks out on his behalf , working obsessively at powerfully emotional works while seemingly ignoring the emotions generated by the domestic chaos around him . |
| 13 | They are duly grateful to Joseph Kosuth for keeping the ball rolling while not rocking the boat . |
| 14 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 15 | It seems rather strange to me that something which is patently strategic should come so far down the list of factors even er below satisfactory access for example . |
| 16 | Moving back to the turn of the century and the pre-First World War period we seem little nearer to finding the traditional way of life based on a ‘ healthy respect for law and order ’ . |
| 17 | At this meeting the ministers asserted that their form of Church government was established by divine ordinance ; Taylor in reply told them that Presbyterians , along with Jesuits , ‘ were the greatest enemies to monarchy and most disobedient to Kings ’ , as shown by the actions of the Assembly of Scotland , and of Calvin , Knox and Buchanan . |
| 18 | Rather nearer to his employer 's family seat were the marshes of the Wealdmoors , just north of Telford and Wellington in Shropshire , which Loch set about draining with a will . |
| 19 | Assuming a social code rather nearer to the Confucian than to our own , the man who wants to go to Bali might choose to obey his parents although convinced that to stay in England is both to his own disadvantage and of no real advantage to them . |
| 20 | Hence current management has an incentive to suggest that information they have ( presumably private to them or not previously sufficiently appreciated ) suggests a rosy future under the present regime . |
| 21 | The latter , naturally , are unlikely to accept this interpretation of the results ; they have little sympathy for those who have performed badly due to their inherent lack of ability or inadequate preparation . |
| 22 | The introduction of newly-developed linings that can be pushed down into crumbling sewers to extend their life is widely touted as bringing the cost of renovating the nation 's sewers down somewhere nearer to what impoverished water authorities can afford . |
| 23 | Once again the Association is most grateful to Mr and Mrs Frank Cannon and their fellow trustees for their generosity in providing superb holidays for Association members at the Chateau de Monviel in France . |
| 24 | The Association is most grateful to the AOC Air Cadets and the Director of the Girls Venture Corps for permitting their respective Corps to provide this much appreaciated help . |
| 25 | The Association is most grateful to the Rococo Group for their work in producing an excellent book and to all those who contributed to it and supported its sales . |
| 26 | We are most grateful to those of you who prayed for us on our recent visit to Zimbabwe . |
| 27 | I am very sorry to trouble you with this and I am most grateful to you for having returned the documents so promptly . |
| 28 | Caring about others less fortunate than ourselves is important and the Christian Aid Committee is most grateful to all who give their time , talents , and money which gives this Festival of Flowers and Music such significance . |
| 29 | I am most grateful to her for allowing me to use this remarkable case study of John . |
| 30 | He continues , ‘ Of all atmospheres those inclining to the yellow and the green are the most unhappy ; and the most grateful to the feelings those of a grey somewhat inclined to purple ; but a reddish purple hue is not only unpleasant in nature , but ought to be studiously avoided in a picture . ’ |