Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's less risky than pointing to totally unknown items on a menu . |
| 2 | Adjusting to small changes is always easier than adjusting to large and the whole aim is that the school should be a nicer and more effective place for everyone . |
| 3 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 4 | Indeed , their own car would probably look like this if left to Anna ; but Peter tidied it , because of all the parishioners he gave lifts to . |
| 5 | Siliciclastic sediments in general remain almost uncemented until buried to depths of 1000 m or more , whereas carbonate sediments are commonly cemented at or near the sediment-water interface , or in subaerial environments . |
| 6 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 7 | So I 'm telling you Mr that I 'm not unemployed because according to the Government figures I am not . |
| 8 | Washes look different when applied to papers of varying surface texture . |
| 9 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 10 | He gave a ten-year prison sentence for this as opposed to two years for one of the rapes of women . |
| 11 | ( See Chapter 8 for further discussion on this as applied to religion . ) |
| 12 | Armstrong and McGee see this as contributing to the growth of countries with more industrialised centres and the decline of the smaller republics , thus intensifying regional disparities ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 ) . |
| 13 | However , this is particularly interesting when related to outcome . |
| 14 | The second question concerns the value placed on feminine as opposed to masculine terms in an opposition . |
| 15 | Approximately that now I 've it 's very y'know woolly , most people do n't bother but you should really do the scatter plot to see whether a relationship is linear as opposed to something like that which would be curvier linear . |
| 16 | The desire of politicians to control annual outcomes in this way was unrealistic when applied to a policy in which the industry 's own long-term objectives ( in this case overcoming the capacity backlog ) were in conflict . |
| 17 | The significance of the seven-hooded Cobra is most clear when related to the discipline of Kundalini Yoga and the seven levels of consciousness leading to Samadhi or ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 18 | It is clear when talking to people like Papert , Monpetit ( who heads LOGO Computer Systems in Montreal ) , or Dr Harry Goldberger , director of the medical programme , that they are not simply colleagues . |
| 19 | The second effect is the inferior performance of the CED when compared to the OALD . |
| 20 | The approach that I have called theoretical as opposed to practical must have as a major part of its aim not merely the passing on of facts and formulae but the inculcation of critical and speculative habit . |
| 21 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
| 22 | I think we 've all got used to , with some products at least , asking questions about how green it is , whether it 's recycled paper , whether it 's going to destroy the ozone layer , as well as asking questions like what price is it , but if we 're going to decide whether one jar of coffee is fair-traded as opposed to another one , what questions do we need to kn know the answers to , to decide that . |
| 23 | The total Community Charge arrears at 31 March 1993 as reported to the Council were £148m which represents over 10% of the total liabilities for the 4 years of Community Charge . |
| 24 | It is at its strongest when applied to production ; indeed , one can think of the Adornian picture of a totally administered , homogeneous , determining process as the ideal type to which the industry constantly aspires ( though , for reasons discussed above , this state is never actually reached ) . |
| 25 | These make life easier when attending to the filter . |
| 26 | Meat and Livestock Commission surveys show that stocking rates and outputs of weaned lambs are substantially lower than obtained in the lowlands , 9.1 as compared to 11.4 ewes/ha and 427 as compared to 636 kg weaned lamb/ha yet the most profitable third of the recorded flocks attained an average of 10.4 ewes/ha . |
| 27 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 28 | Answer guide : This information tends to be more up to date and detailed as compared to published accounting information . |
| 29 | To cover Phases 1 and 2 as referred to in Schedule 2 of this Agreement , shall deposit with an irrecoverable advance of BEF 1,000,000 . |
| 30 | Whereas the Natural History Museum ( the V&A 's neighbour on the other side of Exhibition Road ) attempts to justify admissions charges through an energetic advertising and marketing campaign promoting the idea of the museum visit as an entertaining-cum-educational day out for the whole family , the ‘ national Museum of Art and Design ’ must work to counteract the potential elitism implicit in its status as an institution of cultural as opposed to ‘ natural ’ history . |