Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 2 | They will try to cram as many Minis as possible on to the Lake Windermere ferry and see how many consecutive journeys they can make . |
| 3 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 4 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 5 | Theodora had passed none of that on to the Archdeacon , and he had himself offered no judgement . |
| 6 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 7 | Er again on the national level , if you think there 's a , a campaign you wan na be involved in or wan na get started I 'll put that on to the area N U S who will , if it 's a credible case , will put it forward to the National Executive . |
| 8 | What my pals wanted and I put that on to the pitch . |
| 9 | A striking feature of these statistics is the high proportion of youth unemployment , due mostly to the decline in job opportunities for young people during the recession . |
| 10 | was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids . |
| 11 | The Act provides that there is no liability under this head for damage which is due wholly to the fault of the person suffering it and that contributory negligence is a partial defence . |
| 12 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 13 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 14 | Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry . |
| 15 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 16 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 17 | Erm , would the er spokesman not agree that there is a crisis in secure accommodation in Leicestershire at the moment due entirely to the stance of the Labour and Liberal parties on this authority . |
| 18 | This was ‘ due entirely to the schoolmasters who will not permit that children in their schools use any but the proper names ’ . |
| 19 | This massive loss of forest is by no means due entirely to the timber industry , there being other contributory factors such as conversion of land for urbanisation , agriculture , and increase in domestic animals associated with human populations . |
| 20 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 21 | H how would you balance that out back to the date that you 're talking about ? |
| 22 | Take that along to the hospital . ’ |
| 23 | Marilyn 's it it 's not right down to the ankles but it 's reasonable you know and it 's peach . |
| 24 | Bracken scratched her tender skin , but she was barely aware of it , her every nerve ending alive only to the man touching her with such consummate skill . |
| 25 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 26 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 27 | Well on theirs I 'm allowed to give you a discount , I bring that down to a B. The higher up you 're going . |
| 28 | Well I 'll drop that down to a C , that 'd be a hundred and fourteen . |
| 29 | Just one Peter yes , but we 'll put that down to the going I think , we 'll have to put it down to something , so we 'll put it down to the going . |
| 30 | The rest is all ironing so we take that down to the ironing basket . |