Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inconvenience these excavations caused was second only to that created by the dust storms . |
| 2 | Damage to the cervical spine from rheumatoid arthritis has been noted in 30% to 46% of necropsy studies and is second in frequency only to that seen in the metatarsophalangeal joints . |
| 3 | Only to those sedated by the past . |
| 4 | The amnesty applied not only to those arrested after the rebel invasion earlier in the month , but also to those accused of involvement in a coup attempt in October 1991 [ see p. 38519 ] , including former Interior Minister and Vice-President Maldoun Bada Abbas . |
| 5 | The invention can be dated with fair assurance , since some of the earliest-looking examples , by a painter who may well be the inventor , show stylisations extremely close to those found on the friezes of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi , carved little before 525 . |
| 6 | Even if a will does not give property to trustees , the property , whether real or personal , does not go directly to those for whose benefit it is given , nor does property passing on intestacy go directly to those entitled under the rules above stated . |
| 7 | This applies also to those waiting for the death of someone close . |
| 8 | Membership entitles you to free admission to all the Trust 's properties open to the public in England , Wales and Northern Ireland , and also to those owned by the National Trust for Scotland . |
| 9 | The hydrocarbon ratios for the Tertiary coals behave similarly to those determined for the Palaeozoic coals ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 10 | This applies to obligations both to those trading with the firm ( creditors , bankers and so on ) and to those within it ( partners and staff ) . |
| 11 | To obtain a measure of potential performance , Buzzell and Chussil selected ‘ look-alike ’ businesses from the PIMS data base , split them between ‘ winners ’ and ‘ losers ’ , and then assumed that the potential performance of each business in the study was mapped by a gradual increase from its initial ROI up to that achieved by the ‘ winners ’ by the end of the period . |
| 12 | It is now up to those charged with the duty of investigating alleged crimes to do so . |
| 13 | Although there was a great deal of debate about education after 1944 , much of it up to 1951 focused on the eradication of class differences , not gender differences , in an endeavour to build a more buoyant economy and develop a substantial welfare state . |
| 14 | Other important contributions to the fall in mortality up to 1900 arise from the decline in typhoid and typhus fevers ( 22 per cent of the total mortality reduction ) , scarlet fever ( 19 per cent ) , diarrhoea , dysentery , and cholera ( 8 per cent ) ( McKeown and Record 1962 ) . |
| 15 | Auditory , visual , and tactile processes can be used for the transmission of information in the form of signals , as a simple type of communication , but the communication processes discussed here will be limited to those used in the idea transfer process , and more particularly to those used in the growth and development of scientific knowledge . |
| 16 | Though Rivers gave some slight encouragement to Eliot in suggesting that even in our own society , religious changes have unforeseen and far-reaching effects parallel to those caused by the abolition of head-hunting in Melanesia , Eliot 's linking of ‘ cannibal isle ’ and that ‘ slick place ’ London goes directly against the main thrust of the book which stresses ‘ the almost immeasurable difference between Melanesian and European cultures , and the sharpness of the line which still divides them where they come in contact ’ . |