Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 2 | The toilets and urinals were to the left of this section — the urinals being roofless and thus open to the elements . |
| 3 | The older growth of roses becomes by-passed , deprived and finally starved to the point of die-back only slowly ; the transition is gradual , which means that some not inconsiderable part of the plant 's energy is wasted in trying to sustain growth that can no longer produce the best bloom . |
| 4 | to know story from life of friend that is authentic and clearly related to the goal of the session . |
| 5 | This in itself caused her to feel guilty and so added to the distress she already suffered . |
| 6 | The fire started in a transit van travelling east-bound and then spread to the fuel tank . |
| 7 | Trainees will probably need a lot of guidance in completing the exercise in Handout 14 both because they are doing it without the benefit of parents and in order to keep their CBs both objective and closely related to the PBs . |
| 8 | The nits are shiny and firmly attached to the hair . |
| 9 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 10 | In speech we frequently use reference words such as the demonstratives this and that or the personal pronouns , he , she , it to point to persons or objects present and therefore known to the participants . |
| 11 | ‘ And even if they really are fakes — synthetic fur — ’ she was on a roll now' — it 's made from petrochemicals and they 're non-biodegradable and therefore damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Street violence and disorder are solidly entrenched features of the social landscape ’ , argues Pearson , at any rate in capitalist societies which necessarily generate a ‘ residuum ’ , an under-class of the underprivileged and unemployed , unintegrated and potentially threatening to the established and respectable . |
| 13 | we believe that undergraduates in English would benefit from more ‘ systematic ’ and less ‘ inspirational ’ instruction and that this systematic instruction and its associated reading lists should be agreed by the teachers concerned and closely related to the needs of the Tripos course . |
| 14 | In 1566 it was still incomplete and easily fell to the French corsairs who attacked Funchal in that year . |
| 15 | The crematorium chapel was full and more listened to the service which was relayed to crowds outside . |
| 16 | Where it is shown that an estimate was unreasonable and not made to the company 's best ability , a penalty may arise . |
| 17 | Strong and sturdy and ideally suited to the tough demands of the Southern League , Joe was our first-choice left-back for four full seasons and a considerable favourite with our fans before injury gave talented Horace Colclough the chance to succeed him . |
| 18 | Slowly but surely Carter are on the move again , still pertinent and still clinging to the plot . |
| 19 | Between the peace settlement of 1814 – 15 and the death of the old monarchical and aristocratic Europe after 1914 there was some growth in the size and a more marked one in the geographical scope of diplomatic services ; but this was slow and largely confined to the major states . |
| 20 | On the 5th post-operative day Mr Reynolds became very distressed and eventually admitted to the nurse who was caring for him that his " water works " were the source of his concern . |
| 21 | The issue is whether or not there should be a strong framework and organizational commitment to instruments of public policy or whether or not there is a belief that such interventions are illegitimate and best left to the mysterious movements of market forces . |
| 22 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 23 | Looking back on these campaigns at the end of her life , she defined the law as the chief agency for enacting God 's work and for abolishing the double-standard , which menaced the young and ultimately contributed to the disintegration of the state . |
| 24 | The best example of that type of person is the liberal who professes to be anti-war and anti-violence and then goes to the boxing matches or watches the football game and screams his head off . |
| 25 | These so-called ‘ Zubatov unions ’ proved abortive and indeed contributed to the explosion of protest which was to shake the regime during 1905 . |
| 26 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 27 | However , other activities are useful , well-designed and clearly related to the textual information , and there is a recurring insistence that learners try to evaluate the processes they are using as well as setting them in action as a means to an end . |
| 28 | they 're no different from any other ICI employee — energetic , enthusiastic , ingenious and deeply committed to the future of their business and of ICI as a whole . |
| 29 | As an instance , carriage doors which were formerly framed up in the body shop and then transferred to the finishing shop for the fixing of the interior lining , afterwards being sent to the polishing shop to be french polished and finally returned to the body shop for fixing in position , were now dealt with by an altogether different method . |
| 30 | Stiff and cold in personal relations , he was pompous and excessively attached to the trappings of power . |