Example sentences of "to [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even better , Mala was being fairly close to friendly towards me , making her very good company . |
| 2 | He supposes that , in each abdominal segment , there is a gradient of some diffusible substance , from high at the front to low at the back . |
| 3 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |
| 4 | You may swing from high to low in a moment . |
| 5 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 6 | Pre-race favourite Mick Francis , of Forres , who was runner up in the AAA 24 hour race in October , had to retired after covering 37 5 miles in five hours , leaving Paul Bream at the front . |
| 7 | ‘ No artist I have ever known has ever felt to assured of the immortality of her work — or of the salvation of her soul , ’ |
| 8 | Water condition : Medium to hard-up to 25 DH . |
| 9 | When the property is transferred to the wife alone for her own absolute use , it is necessary , therefore , to appy to the registrar to remove this restriction ( see Precedent 29 ) . |
| 10 | If the Community is built on anything other than a recognition that people and nations often disagree and argue , then it will blow apart in time , or , worse , have to maintained by ever more centralised power . |
| 11 | It should now be possible to narrow down your choice , but look at your checklist again and again — compare the numbers of rooms and their sizes ; consider the garages — gardens — parking space . |
| 12 | The user finds it difficult to narrow down his or her search . |
| 13 | Sources of adequate rock crystal for the manufacture of beads are widespread in England and Europe , but as the spheres require large crystals it may be possible to narrow down the range of sources . |
| 14 | The traditional response of moral philosophy has been to narrow down each act to its pure and innermost core , an act of pure will that , alone , is susceptible of moral assessment . |
| 15 | Newly acquired words are treated as if they contrast with ones already known , and so serve to narrow down earlier over-extensions . |
| 16 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 17 | Additional information that can be used to narrow down the range of possible solutions in a normal co-ordinate analysis can be obtained using isotopically substituted samples . |
| 18 | Are you seeking : ( a ) background factual information ? ( b ) other people 's interpretations of what you are reading ? ( c ) accepted areas for debate ( to narrow down what you think you should say , because of what other people have chosen to talk about ) ? |
| 19 | We do n't know , we are questioning his girlfriend and friends , to narrow down our enquiries . |
| 20 | However , the characteristics of police occupational culture in Easton and the question of informal rules and control will be addressed in later chapters , to allow the focus here to narrow towards an outline of the nature of routine policing and its accomplishment . |
| 21 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 22 | Yet , while the background of terrorist violence remained , and the gulf between the two communities in the North hardly seemed to narrow at all over the years , the stance of the Thatcher government was clearly one based on diplomacy and compromise . |
| 23 | The Reuss valley floor is comparatively wide and level for a considerable stretch south of Altdorf ( 447m , 1,466ft above sea level ) and only begins to narrow at Erstfeld ( 472m , 1,548ft ) , by which point the new motorway N2 has parted company with the old Gotthard road No 2 as well as the railway , having crossed to the west bank of the river . |
| 24 | With this general pattern , however , there were major and persistent differentials among social groups and among geographical regions which barely began to narrow before 1900 . |
| 25 | This is particularly so for white Creole speakers who can not , except in very rare and exceptional circumstances , have had exposure to Creole as young children : but it is also true for speakers like Stephen and Joan , whose " Patois " approaches , but only sometimes reaches , the Jamaican Creole target . |
| 26 | She then immediately switches back to Creole to " link up " with the first part of her turn . |
| 27 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 28 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |
| 29 | Opinion polls suggested that the centre parties would have been hard put to deliver many of their supporters to Labour under an electoral pact . |
| 30 | The Conservatives went into the campaign in a worse position than when they lost to Labour under Harold Wilson in 1964 , and that position , if anything , deteriorated , yet there seems to have been a last-minute surge in the Tories ’ favour . |