Example sentences of "to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas for the other his faulty picture may go back to badly tangled family relationships which have left him unable to see any authority as good or loving . |
| 2 | Not all Universities , and no other Institutions of Higher Education , have an incorporated graduate body but in such cases membership is open to duly recognised graduate societies or associations . |
| 3 | It could be of course , that we 're too near to them , because if you think about it , this has happened to most great pioneers in , in science , they were , for the first erm , certainly for the first century , there 's often a tremendous er , rejection . |
| 4 | The problem is , the term Lamarckism has changed its meaning in the course of this century , and now Lamarckism , if you say Lamarckism to most educated people , the first thing they normally think of , is not evolution by will , or , or progressivism , but inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 5 | The order of discussion will follow the traditional one : electrostatics first , followed by steady currents , then we shall move on to slowly varying phenomena , and reach finally the most interesting part , fast-varying phenomena , exhibiting the full beauty of Maxwell 's wonderful equations . |
| 6 | Glaciologists have argued that the two intervals of ice-sheet collapse were more probably driven by some extreme nonlinear response to slowly changing climate than by rapid climate change . |
| 7 | Every major employer in the area ensures that their workforces are trained to uniformly high standards . |
| 8 | It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection . |
| 9 | Resolution 10 which will be proposed as a Special Resolution extends for a further year at a slightly higher level the authority previously given to disapply such pre-emption rights in the case of small issues and to deal with certain aspects of rights issues . |
| 10 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 11 | The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it . |
| 12 | The purpose of this is to disapply some of the more onerous administrative procedures which would otherwise be required to be carried out . |
| 13 | The purchaser may need to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders if insufficient share capital or authority exists and consider the need to disapply any pre-emption rights . |
| 14 | The Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of holdings to economically viable size . |
| 15 | An examination of other reports based on the 1981 census , however , clearly shows that an overwhelming number of such children almost certainly belong to economically inactive , single parent families . |
| 16 | Subduction zones , where oceanic plates descend under continental ones , and obduction zones , where spreading centres are concealed beneath sedimentary cover , are of considerable interest , not least because ophiolite sequences formed in obduction zones have given rise to economically significant concentrations of metallic minerals . |
| 17 | Briefly , cells scraped from the buccal mucosa were dispersed in phosphate buffered saline ( 2 mM , pH 7.4 ) , washed thrice by centrifugation to remove contaminating salivary flora and resuspended to circa 10 cells/ml in phosphate buffered saline with D-mannose ( 1% ) . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that a Labour Minister for Women would be hard put to right all our wrongs ; none the less , it is likely that she will save a few battered women 's refuge centres from closure , open the odd nursery school , and raise the tax status of child-minders to that of company cars . |
| 19 | Because the market has lapsed , the Court of Pie-Powder , which allowed the market to right any wronged there , has also lapsed . |
| 20 | Partly , this was due to the deep-rooted belief in the importance of all forms of property being held in private hands , and partly to the potentially enormous cost of solving the housing shortage , as well as to rather vain hopes that increasing prosperity and improved public transport would enable poorer urban dwellers to move to cheaper suburban accommodation . |
| 21 | I imagine that a psychiatrist , for example , would apply the word to the behaviour of a patient according to rather technical criteria which would indeed provide an analogy with what a sanitary engineer means by good sewage effluent . |
| 22 | We know ( and children know ) that pollution is damaging ; that children in Victorian schools were subject to rather repressive regimes ; that the slave trade was a bad thing ; that being an Ancient Briton after the Romans invaded was n't nice . |
| 23 | Since contacts made through individuals with a clear institutional status — such as teachers , priests and community leaders — can often lead to rather standardized speakers , these contacts were avoided . |
| 24 | Focusing involves a speech community in establishing and adhering to rather narrow norms of linguistic behaviour , i.e. putting fairly strict limits on the range of acceptable forms . |
| 25 | The chimpanzee 's mode of life calls for an ability to adjust to rather sharp motivational changes associated with shifts in party size and composition during group gatherings . |
| 26 | Although these four authors address themselves to rather different problems , and do not appear to agree on a number of issues , their combined views on the importance of soil erosion are more or less consistent , and quite clear — its importance is exaggerated , agricultural technology initiated by both officials and farmers can respond satisfactorily , and the resources at disposal are massive and are constantly being created by technology itself . |
| 27 | Appealing to rather different sentiments , there are strong grounds for arguing that scientists should take social responsibility for the technology they develop . |
| 28 | There are many ‘ folk ’ variants of this tune which adapt it to rather different musical traditions . |
| 29 | The POU domain is clearly a dynamic DNA-binding structure allowing sequence-specific binding to rather different motifs ( see e.g. 28 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ To rather more than me . ’ |