Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the temporary status of the seasonal labour in the service sector was by no means always obvious by reference only to their contracts of employment , neither was that of the " new temporary labour force in manufacturing . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , danger and discomfort are often severest at temperatures close to freezing point , when outer clothing , wetted by rain or melting snow , loses some of its insulating properties . |
| 3 | Are we really nice to others only to the extent that they carry the genes we do , or to the extent that our ‘ niceness ’ will definitely be reciprocated . |
| 4 | Wine supplier Bibendum 's buyer Simon Farr says : ‘ Friulian whites , particularly those from Collio close to the Yugoslav border , are wonderfully clean and restrained . |
| 5 | Although the gaps in the evidence surrounding Les nopces de village do not permit unambiguous conclusions regarding the musical forces Lully used in its performance or how they were deployed , it is at least possible to edge closer to answering questions about the scoring . |
| 6 | Counts of E coli , and a few rare isolates of other enterobacteria , were low compared with the total flora and were commonly present at levels close to the limit of detection . |
| 7 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 8 | A second Acropolis plaque , with a warrior ( fig. 95 ) is very close in style both to the Athena-plaque and to Euthymides 's red-figure , and is painted not in vase-painter 's technique but partly in outline , mainly in brown wash outlined in black , like the Therm on metopes of a century earlier ( above , p. 13 ) ; only the cloak knotted round the waist is black with incised folds . |