Example sentences of "to [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There seems to be a lot more to this than meets the eye , ’ said Sergeant Camb indignantly . |
| 2 | There 's more to this than meets the eye . ’ |
| 3 | Ray Jones , of McDonnell Douglas , said : ‘ There is a lot more to this than meets the eye and I would like to make extensive comment , but I can not . |
| 4 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 5 | Well , I wonder if you feel that er , there 's something more to this than meets the eye . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's obviously a great deal more to this than meets the eye . |
| 7 | And there is transparently more to this than knowing the meanings of individual units of expression ; we have to grasp the syntax . |
| 8 | The contractor responds to this and obtains the ‘ Conditions of Tender ’ , a written specification of the form in which the tender must be submitted and any special undertakings required from the contractor before he is regarded as qualified to tender . |
| 9 | The defendant agreed to this and obtained a licence but later refused to pay the charge . |
| 10 | A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life . |
| 11 | The railway engineer , therefore , provides a transition curve to ease the engine from one radius to another while adjusting the superelevation , or cant , to counter the centrifugal force . |
| 12 | Uli Edel has forged a remarkably coherent whole , cross-cutting from one story to another while retaining a precise delineation of character , picking out threads of compassion and love from a bleak tapestry of pain . |
| 13 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 14 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 15 | The difficulties which most frequently arise concern the financial problems which arise when individual barristers move from one chambers to another or leave the Bar . |
| 16 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 17 | The Chinese Wall is a self styled regulatory mechanism aimed at stemming the flow of material information from one department in a conglomerate to another and resolving the legal problems associated with conflicts of interest generally . |
| 18 | The City is difficult , you can only shift this traffic management from one place to another and do the best you can in each area , and there are cheaper ways of doing it , not erm three hundred thousand at a time . |
| 19 | So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign . |
| 20 | The purpose of learning , according to cognition theories , is to construct a number of organised detailed frames of reference held in a sufficiently flexible way to enable us to change from one to another when considering an event or problem so that the best judgment is made and a rational course of action is taken . |
| 21 | The bomb , whose ‘ clean ’ radiation could kill humans without harming buildings , was morally repulsive to many but seemed the ideal weapon to use against the Warsaw Pact 's armoury of tanks . |
| 22 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 23 | Limiting the studies included to those that use the same measure of quality of life might lend a table some face validity . |
| 24 | The former , in so far as he considers explanations at all , inclines to those that stress the purely mechanical relations between events . |
| 25 | It is fortunate that the physical features that render a site suitable for overwintering are identical to those that offer the best conditions for hatching success . |
| 26 | Unfortunately this evolutionary attraction of the causal theory is also illusory , for reasons that similar to those that established the circular nature of the Weber-Fechner and other psychophysical laws . |
| 27 | This is not confined to those that have a direct moral influence , like the monarchy and the church , but also touches other structures , like the Stock Exchange and the City , which previously drew their strength from adhering to a strict code of honour and trust . |
| 28 | Just as seeds provide a rich feast to those that have the equipment to deal with them , so do their animal equivalent , eggs . |
| 29 | The transition from exploitation to management is , however , underpinned by a change in economic attitudes , from those that are based on short-term high returns to those that recognise the need for sustainability in order to achieve long-term ongoing returns . |
| 30 | These 7 assumptions are similar to those that underpin the analysis of Markowitz presented in Chapter 4 but they also make important extensions — principally assumptions 4 and 7 . |