Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 2 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 3 | As time went on , Finch found himself more and more attached to bed . |
| 4 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 5 | In practice most trade bills are discounted once and then held to maturity . |
| 6 | Officials there are regularly and publicly taken to task at conservation meetings in Britain and abroad over Britain 's absence from the convention . |
| 7 | That someone as gentle and inoffensive as Sybil , with her flower paintings and her harmless little poems , should have been needlessly and savagely battered to death , made Melissa seethe with rage . |
| 8 | Some alcohol difficulties will be primarily and directly linked to alcohol use and some will be secondary , a complication but not the causal agent . |