Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He freely admits to being a sucker for the equipment and gadgetry of the hobby , and specialises in quickly testing items to destruction — sometimes even deliberately . |
| 2 | As well as the traditional Christmas and New Year festivities , the Wine Festival , Flower Festival , Apple Festival and Carnival all now embrace activities to interest visitors . |
| 3 | The next issue will hit your desks in October ( 1993 I hope ) so please put pen to paper , fingers to keyboard ( but not tipp-ex to screen I beg you ) , and get your scribblings in to the publishing team by early September ( exact date will be given soon ) . |
| 4 | The forward- facing electors without our campaign exp expertise , back-up and money will not dissolve any deeply held if only recently announced objections to union association , for we all know what 's likely to happen at the party conference in October if the brakes are not applied now . |
| 5 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 6 | The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors . |
| 7 | It is not enough to remove barriers to success . |
| 8 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 9 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 10 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 11 | Once this happens , the medium is said to not only reduce ammonia/nitrite to nitrate , but go one step further and , by means of the anaerobic bugs , convert nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . |
| 12 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 13 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 14 | Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |
| 16 | Koshland also found that the depolarisation and ACh acted in similar but parallel ways ; habituation to , say , ACh stimulation did not also produce habituation to depolarisation . |
| 17 | Elections are not just about electing representatives to Parliament . |
| 18 | Another disadvantage of yield to maturity is that investors do not typically hold bonds to maturity . |
| 19 | ‘ We did not even offer protection to goalkeeper Stephen Pears , who was being watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 20 | TopLog International has not yet put pen to paper with Univel Inc to support Unixware , as reported last week ( Ux No 399 ) . |
| 21 | Central units did not commonly tailor courses to library requirements , although this is not necessarily a disadvantage . |
| 22 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 23 | Sometimes I would purposely not pay attention to detail or to nothing . ’ |
| 24 | In short , the probability is that women will more often gain access to heroin through a male , frequently via a ‘ romantic relationship ’ , than any other social route . |
| 25 | Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink . |
| 26 | Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas . |
| 27 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 28 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 29 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 30 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |