Example sentences of "[adv] that to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet studies of police discretion also emphasize how its operation is structured , so that to a great extent its use becomes standardized , although individual whim can not be ignored entirely . |
| 2 | % postcrania /crania : postcrania include 10 elements , two each of femora , tibiae , humeri , radii and ulnae ; crania include 16 elements , two each of mandibles and maxillae and 12 molars ; the expected ratio is therefore 10:16 , so that to correct for this departure from I the actual postcranial values from the fossil samples are multiplied by 16 and the cranial values by 10 , and these corrected values are shown here . |
| 3 | ‘ Matter is poured into our universe from some other and entirely extraneous spatial dimension so that to a denizen of our universe they appear as points at which matter is continually created . |
| 4 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 5 | His largest fault , perhaps , and one natural to a good hater , was a congenital inability to accept that mortal creatures hold incompatible views and behave in ways incompatible with their views , so that to the end of his days he declined to accept any difference between holding a speculative opinion that is evil and being bad . |
| 6 | In Britain there was a significant reduction in the number of employees eligible for employment protection , so that to be within the terms of the Employment Protection Act , they had to be working for two years instead of , as previously , six months . |
| 7 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 8 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 9 | There was something pejorative about the word , so that to some atonal music meant ‘ non-music ’ , or at least something ugly and unpleasant . |
| 10 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 11 | Their bark , if bark it was , possessed a highly reflective surface , so that to move forward was to be accompanied by a multitudinous army of distortions of oneself . |
| 12 | Luke 's nearness seemed to reach into her core , sparking off those treacherous currents again , so that to even speak coherently at this moment was monumentally difficult . |
| 13 | Fortunately , the direct e.m.f. is usually very large compared with the input potential difference ( ; 0.6 V for a silicon transistor ) so that to a fair approximation . |
| 14 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 15 | Only that to the " bottom left " carries a lateral , swastika meander . |
| 16 | Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) . |
| 17 | She had said just that to Miss Fairgrieves on her first day as governess . |
| 18 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 19 | He told me once that to his mind organized religion destroyed moral and spiritual values . |
| 20 | Er sound is very difficult you know like that to your never quite sure the way it goes . |
| 21 | erm in namely that to the er , the duties put upon me |
| 22 | The most important form of such journeys , in quantitative terms , was probably that to the family summer holiday or ( for the more affluent and overfed ) to the annual cure at some spa . |
| 23 | It was obvious now that to most of these women Luke was nothing but a boss . |
| 24 | And he sees something now that to him is mind blowing ! |
| 25 | Now that to me is a grossly irresponsible statement to make and it is total rubbish . |
| 26 | tax paid and everything , and I know it 's gon na be in there I said now that to me is worth a lot I ai n't got ta worry whether there 's gon na be cheque from out on my doormat in the morning or if it 's gon na bounce when I put it in so I sa |
| 27 | Now that to me is not |
| 28 | We live so isolated an existence here that to me it seems quite odd . |