Example sentences of "[adj] to [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's not about being aggressive it 's not about being aggressive or submissive it 's about being clear to true to yourself being aware of what you want from any given situation . |
| 2 | Details evolve as the tones are worked from light to dark in the visual watercolour fashion . |
| 3 | You may swing from high to low in a moment . |
| 4 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 5 | Quenya itself is similar to Finnish in linguistic ‘ style ’ ; names like Ilúvatar and Ulmo recall the Ilmatar and Ilmo of the Kalevala ; the Valar are the powers who have agreed to be ‘ bounded in the world ’ , and vala in Finnish means ‘ bond ’ ; many more connections can be made . |
| 6 | That trend matches the trend in television projections of party unity , which were more favourable to Labour at the start and end of the campaign , but more favourable to the Conservatives in the middle , especially so in the third week . |
| 7 | Within a matter of moments , the computer will indicate which of the three shade-groups you suit , from Warm to Cool to Neutral , and you can choose your products from the corresponding colour sections on display . |
| 8 | Then there are a number of predictions made in Marxist literature , such as the transition from socialism to communism , which it is impossible to subject to any meaningful test , and which are not even developed analytically . |
| 9 | The oral shield is small rhombic to triangular in shape . |
| 10 | It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt . |
| 11 | He won the Kim Muir at the Cheltenham Festival , having previously finished seven lengths second to Roll-A-Joint at Chepstow , with Little Polveir behind , over three and threequarter miles . |
| 12 | Lijphart 's ( 1968b ) typology of democratic systems classified liberal democratic systems along two dimensions — the extent of their social heterogeneity , ranging at one end of the continuum from homogeneous to fragmented at the other ; and the extent to which elite behaviour is collaborative or competitive . |
| 13 | Yes , I creative accountancy obviously is a word that it 's easy to bandy about . |
| 14 | Suddenly , Rildia Bee heard the piece being played exquisitely in the next room , and beheld her own tiny to perched on the bench playing an instrument he had never before touched , and playing it already with transcendent genius . |
| 15 | Jamie sat in silence for a while as I went from screenful to screenful of wheeling , whining craft . |
| 16 | to it 's barely credible hard to hard to , can you get out of that ? |
| 17 | If flying across country is not practical and you are local soaring , it is better to practise moving from cloud to cloud or thermal to thermal without taking the climbs to any great height . |
| 18 | In the harsh climate in which we live it is perhaps too much to hope that editors , no doubt feeling themselves lucky to employed at all , will rise up against their own management to resist this dictate . |
| 19 | SPHINX was much more likely to successful in this than RM1 , since SPHINX computed its scores from a specific , limited , task domain . |
| 20 | A persistent downpour at the track rapidly reduced the going from good to firm to soft , a change which could threaten the participation of Royal Ballerina . |
| 21 | The only reason that Henry Cecil , Spritsail 's trainer , could give for that poor Ascot run was that the ground there was loose , but the official going was good to firm at Ascot , the same as yesterday 's . |
| 22 | With conditions on the National course good to firm with firm patches , some leading lights are sure to be inconvenienced . |
| 23 | Ground conditions — good and good to firm in places — are unchanged at Cheltenham , where watering has resumed . |
| 24 | If I was forced to bet on it , I would say it will be good or good to soft on the day . ’ |
| 25 | John Dunlop 's filly will not be inconvenienced by the ground as she won her maiden on good to soft at Salisbury . |
| 26 | John Dunlop 's filly will not be inconvenienced by the ground as she won her maiden on good to soft at Salisbury . |
| 27 | The latest going bulletin from Kempton favours Bradbury Star , with the going now changed to good to soft from soft . |
| 28 | First race there twelve fifty the going at the moment is good but they have had a quarter of an inch of rain overnight so of course I suppose there 's every chance it could go to good to soft by this afternoon . |
| 29 | They range from excellent to good to bad to worse . |
| 30 | It 's a sight all to familiar in garages up and down the country . |