Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | God had thus clearly transferred the realm to his brothers , whom the bishops now invited to take it up . |
| 7 | She had not yet broken the news to her youngest daughter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | US President George Bush had also personally urged the delegations to the Middle East peace talks to continue their negotiations despite the Israeli action . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had very early broached the subject to the king . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |