Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |
| 2 | Doctors and physiotherapists were never allowed close enough to examine him . |
| 3 | A class is thus said rather vaguely to consist of a group of persons sharing similar occupations and incomes , and as a consequence similar life-styles and beliefs . |
| 4 | But in this context the term ‘ interference ’ is commonly used more narrowly to designate those theories that try to explain latent inhibition in terms of the interaction of standard ( usually associative ) processes of learning or performance and without recourse to attentional constructs of the sort employed by the theories discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them . |