Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | AI has so far received no response to its requests to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to clarify the detainees ' situation . |
| 2 | They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote . |
| 3 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 4 | Indeed , it would certainly fall out were it not for the fact that the bird has not only glued the nest to the leaf , but the egg to the nest . |
| 5 | Where the parties have not only required a step to be taken within a specified time but have expressly provided for the consequences in case of default , this provides an indication , of greater or less strength , that time is to be of the essence , but it is not necessarily decisive . |
| 6 | These roads not only allowed the fenlands to be exploited to the full for the first time , they also changed the way of life there , to an extent never seen before or since . |
| 7 | Indeed his work not only provided an answer to that particular problem , but gave a complete theory of a whole class of related problems . |
| 8 | The loan exhibition of eighteenth-century European ceramics from the Bowes Museum will allow many who have not already made the trek to Barnard Castle a fascinating glimpse of this major collection of Continental ceramics assembled by Josephine Bowes , beginning in 1860 , with the idea in mind of creating a public collection ( opened 1892 , unfortunately after her and her husband 's death ) . |
| 9 | God had thus clearly transferred the realm to his brothers , whom the bishops now invited to take it up . |
| 10 | I have not yet received a reply to my letter dated 21st May 1992 asking for information about temporary caravan sites and caravan rallies . |
| 11 | She had not yet broken the news to her youngest daughter . |
| 12 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 13 | The senior team 's rebuilding period was over and they once again looked a force to be reckoned with . |
| 14 | US President George Bush had also personally urged the delegations to the Middle East peace talks to continue their negotiations despite the Israeli action . |
| 15 | The Japanese government , which also strongly supported a return to commercial whaling , announced that it was holding talks with Russia and South Korea with a view to setting up a similar organization for " rational exploitation " of marine mammals in the north Pacific . |
| 16 | She thought you 'd probably never had a bathroom to yourself and that you 'd appreciate something a bit special . ’ |
| 17 | We have now nearly completed the change to a new ‘ friendlier-looking ’ uniform and have established a programme of training in customer care for our custodians and warders . |
| 18 | Despite Mike Duffey 's testimonial and the success of ‘ The Locomotion ’ in Australia she had n't yet earned the right to be taken too seriously . |
| 19 | I have n't yet found a way to automatically knit the extra stitches on the jumper after the card size has been accounted for — not unless I program every time I knit the pattern . |
| 20 | I did n't see this as being primarily er a , a reflection on the day as such , although they have n't actually had the opportunity to sort of mull it over . |
| 21 | Yet men did die ; they did resist Turks and Italians by battle and by evasion ; they did collect taxes from passers-by , and almost certainly distributed the proceeds to household heads . |
| 22 | Anne felt a stab of pain , although she told herself that she was not interested in John Redmond any more , yet eagerly accepted an invitation to Sunday tea from Sarah . |
| 23 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 24 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 25 | Close though her friendship with Gary had become she had never once breathed a word to him about the new collections she saw taking shape at Mattli — and as for ‘ pillow talk ’ the notion was absurd . |
| 26 | Once again they were relatively complex to use and whilst smaller and faster still restricted the user to a few faces and sizes at any one time . |
| 27 | He had very early broached the subject to the king . |
| 28 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 29 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 30 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |