Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one satisfied , and looking forward eagerly to future developments , they cut up the hare and called Farquhar in . |
| 2 | Some schools looked forward eagerly to whole-school involvement in health : |
| 3 | Isolated horses can develop depression , over-excitability or an inability to relate sensibly to other horses . |
| 4 | J happen somewhere , and the spaces must relate sensibly to convenient use . |
| 5 | Generally rare in polar regions , where sea ice inhibits their settlement , they are often plentiful on subpolar shores where they may be exposed twice daily to six-hourly spells of near-freezing sea temperatures , alternating with similar spells of very much lower air temperatures . |
| 6 | Arguably , Jung 's psychology ( one which appears to link better to collective experience and social relations ) is in some respects a departure for a new sociology which is more sensitive to the relationship between the individual and society and to ‘ moral careers ’ . |
| 7 | Causton plans to alter the ends of the polymers to make them stick better to specific surfaces or make them attractive to only a particular protein . |
| 8 | Young fish adapt better to new conditions and while you may not be able to start breeding from them next week they will often produce better results in the long term . |
| 9 | The parent , too , may seek a " better " child , who is able to respond better to parental effort . |
| 10 | Thus , The Times of 17 December 1990 reported that a group of 40 of the most senior Civil Servants had met the previous weekend to discuss ‘ ways in which the government machine could respond better to national and international problems such as the threat of global climate change ’ . |
| 11 | The smaller varieties are usually the most successful , and I would particularly recommend the small outdoor varieties , as they seem to take better to pressing than the larger and lumpier types . |
| 12 | But these hot summer nights lend themselves better to cold lager and I felt more at ease with the Schonbrau Original Premium Pilsener lager , very dry and good value at £3.99 for four cans . |
| 13 | But these hot summer nights lend themselves better to cold lager and I felt more at ease with the Original Premium Pilsener lager , very dry and good value at £3.99 for four cans . |
| 14 | For the November weather which had been cold and damp changed suddenly to mild and sunny , the sky unbroken blue . |
| 15 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 16 | Jesus 's teachings owe much to established Pharisaic thought . |
| 17 | All three seem to have in mind both the riveting political events of November 1990 and the concurrent BBC adaptation of Michael Dobbs ' House of Cards , which owed much to Shakespearian tragedy . |
| 18 | In style it owed much to Ancient Rome but was not only a copy of it ; it showed Byzantine influence and also new ideas , adapting itself to its own period . |
| 19 | The latter owed much to research by Schumm and his students and is reviewed further in chapter 8 ( p. 172 ) whereas the other themes owed much to increasing knowledge of , and dependence upon , hydrology . |
| 20 | The IOC owed much to other exclusive sporting clubs like MCC . |
| 21 | First , it is content-free , so can offer much to other subject teachers . |
| 22 | Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers . |
| 23 | The cattle of Belgium owe much to Dutch and British breeds , particularly the Friesian types and the Shorthorn , which were used to improve local stock and create the national Belgian breeds , the most famous of which today must be the double-muscled Belgian Blue . |
| 24 | N we ourselves have just started to put together our first thoughts on it in advance of receiving that advice , but clearly it 's much to early to be coming to getting the conclusions as to what that g guidance will eventually contain . |
| 25 | At the same time , this belief in British national strength owed much to short-term factors . |
| 26 | Surely both vase-paintings and metopes ( which run over the middle and later decades of the century ) owe much to great wall-paintings in Corinth . |
| 27 | The room itself owed much to Ixibatabian fashion , being decorated in deep reds , terra cotta , and ochre yellow . |
| 28 | Later volumes , including Crime and Custom in Savage Society ( 1926 ) , The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia ( 1929 ) , and Coral Gardens and Their Magic ( 1935 ) also added much to anthropological theory . |
| 29 | Although the victory of Keir Hardie owed much to historical contingency and of the labour council to traditional Liberal support , the assertion of working-class identity was instrumental . |
| 30 | But strategy of this sort , while it is a useful analytic tool , does not contribute much to historical explanation . |