Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 2 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 3 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 4 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 5 | Indeed , a system which has rules of adjudication is necessarily also committed to a rule of recognition of an elementary and imperfect sort . |
| 6 | The movement became a tradition which is only now degenerating to a faction , and it is from that tradition Dr Runcie springs . |
| 7 | We are surprised that Ito is so strongly opposed to a model that accounts for his data and ours , and that allows the cerebellar cortex of the flocculus and/or the ventral paraflocculus to be one of two sites of learning in the VOR . |
| 8 | That 's why it 's so well suited to a bedroom . |
| 9 | The larger , Q-beta RNA molecules are less well adapted to a test-tube environment but better adapted to the environment provided by E.coli cells . |
| 10 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 11 | For risk ratings , however , it is interesting that feelings of risk should be less closely related to a measure of objective risk which corrects for traffic flow than one which fails to . |
| 12 | The transformation of the problematic does not necessarily lead to a transformation of the form of validity of knowledge . |
| 13 | Professor Chapman points out that this does not necessarily lead to a drop in standards of physical care , but stresses the apparent risk that patients may occasionally be made to feel ‘ merely an appendage to a machine ’ . |
| 14 | A Halifax spokesman stressed the £20m provision on loans to the Kentish development Burrell 's Wharf was highly prudent and would not necessarily lead to a loss of the same magnitude . |
| 15 | Restricting car access does not necessarily lead to a loss of trade . |
| 16 | To abandon ‘ news values ’ as the sole criteria of the media would not necessarily lead to a dereliction of duty . |
| 17 | Sympathy with the conditions of the poor did not necessarily lead to a desire for reform by the state but for further voluntary action . |
| 18 | He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana . |
| 19 | The ability of mother and child to form a bond with each other is not necessarily restricted to a blood relationship ; it is an urge , a power , a need that may & d other channels through which to operate , so that during our lives we may create more bonds of a similar nature , finding new ‘ mothers ’ or ‘ children ’ to attach ourselves to . |
| 20 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 21 | I 'm not so addicted to a television as to need that , oh far from it . |
| 22 | However if the glucose is maintained high , in other words if the stimulus is sustained , what we see is a succession of depolarizing spikes , and the reason we see it is because this elevation of free calcium , not only leads to a insulin secretion , it also leads to the opening of calcium activated K channels which tend to hyperpolarize the membrane . |
| 23 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 24 | The engine produces an uneven cacophony of rattles , misfires and exhaust bark which , together with the odd puff of oil smoke from the crankcase breather , do not exactly say to a pilot , ‘ You can trust me , chief ’ , nor instil any confidence in the outcome of the next few minutes . |
| 25 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
| 26 | The hive-up will not usually amount to a distribution ( see s209(4) , ( 5 ) , ( 7 ) TA 1988 ) . |
| 27 | This will very rarely be the case in a management buy-out and it should be noted that s18(2) TCGA 1992 will not usually apply to a management buy-out of a business to impute a non-arm's-length transaction . |
| 28 | The inclusion of royal law within a law-code which is otherwise not directly ascribed to a king is more obviously apparent in another Merovingian law-book , associated with the east Frankish kingdom , the Lex Ribvaria , where the verb iubere , " to order " , is occasionally used . |
| 29 | These are often but not always added to a segment of the Latin name of the element ( see table 4.9 ) . |
| 30 | From the point of view of natural creation , however , dare we suggest that a not altogether unfeeling God introduced the sound as a warning to its prey , so that in the natural economy , mosquitoes did not have an unfair advantage and that all warm-blooded creatures in mosquito-infested areas were not permanently condemned to a life of itching and scratching ! |