Example sentences of "to a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Morley 's dozen Latin works , probably early and almost all intensely penitential , the motet in England came to a not undistinguished end . |
| 2 | Her voice faded to a barely audible whisper . |
| 3 | In hibernating animals , the body temperature falls much further , to just above freezing , while heartbeat and all the other bodily functions slow down to a barely perceptible pace . |
| 4 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 5 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE , who partnered Halkopous to a tremendously impressive victory at Cheltenham on Saturday , will retain the ride on the new Champion Hurdle favourite . |
| 6 | The tea cools to a dead silver — a skin that gathers and heals |
| 7 | Where this gas had combined with the monsoon rains it had produced weak solutions of sulphuric acid and these had etched the exposed architectural surfaces to a dead white . |
| 8 | She spread butter on to a deliciously aromatic roll , and spread it with honey , adding calmly , ‘ This is your villa . |
| 9 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 10 | He may have hoped that the Christian democratic MRP would rally to a clearly articulated Gaullist constitution . |
| 11 | This was a major departure for NATO , which had been based since its foundation in 1949 on the principles of taking joint action in defence of member states only and of restricting operations to a clearly designated area covering the member states ' territories . |
| 12 | The Party , no ! ’ amounted to a widely prevailing view on the eve of the invasion of the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | In Australia the need to make the material more accessible to a widely scattered clientele has been met in part by the adoption of a centre for every state and territory , each of which holds a replicate collection of teaching materials . |
| 14 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 15 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 16 | The plot sticks to a depressingly familiar formula , as our hero avenges big brother 's murder as violently as possible , and , along the way , learns the meaning of growing up , responsibility , life , etc . |
| 17 | Before the audience learns the truth , they are subjected to a depressingly muddled , self-conscious wallow on the theme of fame , time and death which , for some obscure reason , eventually ends with George and his psychiatrist skiing down a slope . |
| 18 | That is , high productivity can lead to a misleadingly high ratio . |
| 19 | The cause of action has been upheld in ‘ urban ’ and ‘ regional ’ studies by those adhering to a broadly Weberian approach . |
| 20 | Each research group came to a broadly similar conclusion : that if there is any link between lead and IQ , it is totally masked by much more powerful social effects . |
| 21 | The union reacted bitterly to a toughly worded edict from Darlington area delivery services manager Spencer Hindmarsh to keep costs down . |
| 22 | It was he thought , another life wasted to a seemingly futile cause . |
| 23 | Indeed , Ratty 's emotional , if not his ecological , headquarters , the river Pang between Reading and Newbury , where Kenneth Grahame wrote his classic , has been subjected to a notoriously insensitive drainage scheme . |
| 24 | For several seemingly interminable seconds no one moved as the coolly brooding glance subjected her to a flagrantly masculine appraisal . |
| 25 | He left his office door opened and , for the next hour , treated her to a stunningly drab conversation about the searches on a leasehold flat in Esher . |
| 26 | Hence Japanese management holds out a promise of permanent employment to a core of selected employees whose numbers are ‘ limited to a cyclically justifiable minimum ’ ( Taira 1962 p.l68 ) . |
| 27 | For what follows , I want to suggest , first , that the study of observable , historical television genres — the largely elementary , predominantly thematic categories of television schedules — needs to be underpinned by a much more complex understanding than we presently have of the theoretical genre of ‘ television narrative fiction ’ to which they belong ; and , second , that that understanding may best be approached by placing television narrative fiction in some definite historical and theoretical relationship to a yet wider generic category : that of novelistic discourse . |
| 28 | And sir , a local plan enquiry , particularly where there is no specific allocation made , is not an appropriate forum to apply development control policies to a wholly unformulated proposal . |
| 29 | Fact is , it 's precisely the too-thorough internalization of punk 's dread of the hippy and the resulting strategy of self-limitation that has led to a wholly different kind of dire stasis . |
| 30 | It would seem to be still more inappropriate for the criminal law to deny its protection to parties ( probably a majority in this country ) who have expressly chosen to be married according to a wholly different ceremony . |