Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the term that has caught on most widely to describe such zealots is ‘ hacker ’ and what they do , constantly , is known as ‘ hacking ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't think I came over here just to say good morning , do you ? ’ |
| 3 | I trust that this review has helped at least somewhat to lighten that load . |
| 4 | The Nazi state itself was fraught with internal contradictions , and in the last resort , the Soviet Union could be relied upon not only to oppose fascist aggression , but also to thwart the potentially treacherous politics of reactionary French and British governments . |
| 5 | It was one thing to accept the assumption that the state was the dominant actor , but quite another to agree to how best to explain that unit 's behaviour . |
| 6 | It certainly identifies a central tendency in a particular repertory ; but it goes on not only to consume that repertory in every aspect but also to gobble up all kinds of popular music . |
| 7 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 8 | The scepticism needs dealing with not only to satisfy scientific readers , but because the theory of determinism in this book has its most important empirical support in science . |
| 9 | DOWN in Nashville , its capital , the 1990s boom in American country music has gone on long enough to prompt some heady forecasts . |
| 10 | However , none of the studies have gone on long enough to make reliable predictions . |
| 11 | The increase in the number of single-parent families has been detailed in Part I. The rise has been so significant that , had it not been overshadowed by the advent of mass unemployment , much of today 's public debate about welfare reform would be centred on how best to help this group of claimants . |
| 12 | Historians are divided on how seriously to take this association idea . |