Example sentences of "to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stronsay fish mart in the fishing time was really a busy place with the salesmen busy selling the herring to the curing stations . |
| 2 | The one he selected , instantly burst into life and the propeller whizzed round to the utter amazement of all those working in the vicinity . |
| 3 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 4 | One pair of these are the sex chromosomes — " female " chromosomes shaped rather like the letter X. The ovum contributes only one chromosome of each pair to the fertilised cell from which a child will develop . |
| 5 | I 've found with my own teaching that if a player wants to move away from a purely diatonic mode of improvising , their initial steps are dogged by their own reaction to the chromatic tones , by perceiving them as sounding ‘ wrong ’ somehow . |
| 6 | Very lonely people turn to the tranquillising help of alcohol particularly , according to psychiatrists , men who live alone . |
| 7 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 8 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 9 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 10 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 11 | The serotonin reuptake inhibitors seem to have similar efficacy to the tricyclic and related antidepressants , but the analysis of efficacy is less reliable than that of acceptability because intention to treat analyses were not widely used , different Hamilton scales were used , and reporting of standard deviation was inadequate . |
| 12 | CA European marketing manager , Mike Maunder , says ‘ we were inundated with demands on a worldwide basis to respond to the downsizing issue , and now we 're doing just that . ’ |
| 13 | It looks towards a statutory requirement that representatives of trade unions should be appointed , in that capacity , to the directing boards of companies . |
| 14 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 15 | The task of the great turn-off was undertaken by , supervisor of typing services since the company first moved to the four-storey building in March , 1971 . |
| 16 | The King takes a disliking to the cheshire cat but expects the cat to show respect towards him . |
| 17 | Spurs striker Gordon Durie returns to the slimline squad after recovering from injury , but there is no place for Manchester United 's Brian McClair . |
| 18 | The ‘ compact ’ skis of the 1970s that were such a wheeze ( as opposed to a sneeze ) in powder were up to 10% broader than the skis we use today — they had typical sidecuts at the waist of around 70mm , compared to the slimline ( 63mm to 66mm ) skis that are more common today . |
| 19 | Both were provoking a spectacular confusion of signs — ‘ quality ’ , the ‘ finer things in life ’ restored to the avant-garde hipsters who , like ABC , ‘ know what trash is ’ . |
| 20 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 21 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 22 | The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor . |
| 23 | In fading winter light that seemed wise advice and we retraced our steps to the gentler landscape of Teesdale itself . |
| 24 | It descends into Bernese Oberland territory in sweeping bends that present a close view of the Stein glacier , then along the Gadmen valley to the gentler scenery of the valley of the Aare at Innertkirchen ( near Meiringen ) . |
| 25 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 26 | I refer especially to the Sessional Order that deals with witnesses to the House . |
| 27 | According to The Impossible Investigation , a book by police Inspector Antoine Gaudino published in October 1990 , Urbatechnic had made payments allegedly worth F25,000,000 ( rather than the official figure of F100,000 ) towards Mitterrand 's presidential campaign . |
| 28 | A new point that I would make , however , in many of those arguments which relate to the impossible , or alleged availability of additional windfall sites , and land on the inner greenbelt boundary , but I think the analysis which is er carried out is a simplistic one , because it solely relates to residential land requirements , there is no erm attempt to erm bring into the equation whether there is land available for the related employment necessary for that additional residential development , whether there is land available for schools , shops , and Mr Davis 's recreation uses , and so on , and all those will very considerably increase the amount of land required to be released to support residential development , wherever it is located , and that is something which I believe has not been properly taken into account . |
| 29 | Perhaps the last word should be left to the acerbic ‘ DS ’ in the TLS : ‘ The desperation of this roster — some of the writers have yet to publish their first novels — is self-evident . |
| 30 | She also plans a sequel to the million-selling Cher Fitness : A New Attitude video next year and is working hard to fulfil one outstanding ambition — directing a Hollywood movie . |