Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] to the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 2 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 3 | The early campaigns seem to continue through to the very different style used today . |
| 4 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 5 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 6 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 7 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 8 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 9 | If a factory chimney dumps smoke on a thousand gardens nearby it may be very expensive to collect 1 from each household to bribe the factory to cut back to the socially efficient amount . |