Example sentences of "to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been different from her brother and from his friends who used to visit , make themselves at home in my clean room , on the clean bed , delighted to find a video and a cassette recorder and cassettes , who ate my nice food and listened to loud music and swallowed the drink they brought with them . |
| 2 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 3 | ‘ Crossman tended to presume that all those he came across , at work or socially , liked nothing better than to have their intellectual sacred cows challenged , their arguments questioned and their assumptions subjected to loud investigation . ’ |
| 4 | To loud applause , he said the message to Mr Heath from the grass-roots should be : ‘ We all respect your vision and your achievements , but please remember that the overwhelming majority of Conservatives totally reject the idea of European union and a federal Europe . ’ |
| 5 | To loud Conservative cheers , he demanded a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of monetary union , adding that it should not be a study confined to European central bank governors . |
| 6 | Just because I am a woman they belittle me , ’ she said to loud cheers . |
| 7 | To loud Conservative cheers , he demanded a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of monetary union , adding that it should not be a study confined to European central bank governors . |
| 8 | ‘ We know from past experience where the other route takes us , ’ he said to loud applause . |
| 9 | Thus the early engineers were constrained by the lack of ‘ signal to noise ratio ’ and ‘ sensitivity ’ to confine themselves to loud subject matter which could take place about one inch from the mouthpiece . |
| 10 | Ringing sounds in ears , vertigo , sensitivity to loud noise , sounds seeming very distant . |
| 11 | There are various causes of damage to the inner ear — for example , exposure to loud noise . |
| 12 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 13 | It was Sidney who introduced Charlie to loud , cigar-chomping music hall impresario Fred Karno ( John Thaw ) . |
| 14 | For the first time she gave vent to loud screams , which became her usual method of attracting attention from that time : ‘ this manner of crying endured many years after this time , for aught any man might do , and therefore , suffered she much despite and much reproof ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ David Keys from The Independent in London sent me his articles , ’ said Marin , surprised that the national press and institutions concerned with the preservation of the cultural heritage had shown no knowledge of or interest in the silver , whose sale had been announced by Sotheby 's to loud fanfares the month before . |
| 16 | ‘ Too well paid , ’ called Sergeant Lothar to loud laughter from the gathering crowd . |
| 17 | Despite their gift as mental giants , the Sensorites are physically quite innocuous — small , corpulent and soft-spoken , they have extreme aversions to loud noise and darkness . |
| 18 | To loud applause Karlinsky shook hands with the President before ascending the steps where he put his face against the blue and white silk curtain with the gold braid which hung before the doors of the Ark . |
| 19 | My husband and I both suffer from migraines and we have identical symptoms : sickness , blurred vision , sensitivity to loud noises and a banging headache . |
| 20 | To loud applause she declared : ‘ The IRA did not kill Johnathan Ball in my name . |
| 21 | At the cry of ‘ stewards ’ , forty leathery men of uncertain age , who , as agents , had devoted their lives to the Party , frogmarched the YCs out of the hall to loud applause . |
| 22 | to loud music and a drench of tears , |
| 23 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 24 | Not to loud |
| 25 | Some potato varieties are more susceptible to enzymic browning than others . |
| 26 | But at a time when the swing is to full-time 4 × 4 , they have added a central viscous coupling so that in 4 × 4 , on road or off , the power goes to the wheels with the most grip without transmission wind-up and all that entails , which can be locked for extra traction off-road . |
| 27 | The time factor was a problem both to full-time and part-time farmers but for entirely different reasons . |
| 28 | Orkney perhaps provided the best example of the use of off-farm income as a step from part-time to full-time farming . |
| 29 | The real attraction of the pension was its insurance value and the option it gave to retire completely or to turn to full-time farming on retirement . |
| 30 | On the part-time farms 18% of the wives had off-farm jobs , varying from 18 hours per week to full-time employment . |