Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
| 2 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 3 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 4 | For dry harvesting , machines with rotating teeth are pushed up and down the bogs to gently comb the berries from the vines . |
| 5 | When I visited the sites of three major Civil War battles ( Edgehill , Marston Moor and Naseby ) I encountered a number of obstacles that soon forced me to rethink where and how the additions to my collection would be made . |