Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 2 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 3 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 4 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 5 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 6 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 7 | ‘ I only ever go to church when I have to go to funerals , ’ said Amiss gloomily . |
| 8 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 9 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
| 10 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 11 | It appears to broaden the categories of non-consent so that , for example , fraud is not merely confined to fraud as to the nature of the act or husband impersonation , as it is at English common law . |
| 12 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 13 | Researchers do not normally look to accountants when seeking support for the imaginative leaps which have characterised the most major advances in science . |
| 14 | Unlike the NOT gate bistable , the Set and Reset inputs are not directly coupled to outputs so there is no chance of short-circuits occurring . |
| 15 | I do not now allude to preference though of course that comes first . |
| 16 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 17 | And the only way round that situation , that may not even amount to crime when they 're put in fear , it may amount to yobbos on the pavement , or people er , cycling on the pavement or just being their usual threatening loutish selves . |
| 18 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 19 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 20 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 21 | For example , fraud and forgery usually only come to light when an organisation discovers the offender . |
| 22 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 23 | If I had ever not gone to Abraham when summoned , he promised me he would tell Sarah everything , or at least his version of everything . |
| 24 | Certainly this event postdates the mammalian radiation , since species more distantly related to man than the old world monkeys do not possess multiple copies of KOX2-related sequences . |
| 25 | The firm is perhaps more strongly committed to growth than Spencer Stuart , recently taking on more new consultants and expanding into the stylish Devonshire House development opposite the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair place . |
| 26 | Toucans live in the forests of South and Central America and are more closely related to woodpeckers than to hornbills . |
| 27 | Another theory concerning the relationships of the Recent taxa suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes , implying that hagfishes are the most primitive of craniate animals ( Fig. 2B , a ) . |
| 28 | Usually , one or other fossil group is considered more closely related to gnathostomes than to any other agnathan , living or fossil . |
| 29 | These similarities , together with several other less obvious features , suggest that cephalapsids are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to lampreys . |
| 30 | The new features that have been discovered by re-examining Recent taxa alongside the many new fossil finds during the past 15 years lead to classifications that suggest that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes . |