Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 2 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 3 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 4 | All other respects of the development remains unchanged , so not converting to a house , then . |
| 5 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 6 | Indeed , a system which has rules of adjudication is necessarily also committed to a rule of recognition of an elementary and imperfect sort . |
| 7 | The movement became a tradition which is only now degenerating to a faction , and it is from that tradition Dr Runcie springs . |
| 8 | We are surprised that Ito is so strongly opposed to a model that accounts for his data and ours , and that allows the cerebellar cortex of the flocculus and/or the ventral paraflocculus to be one of two sites of learning in the VOR . |
| 9 | That 's why it 's so well suited to a bedroom . |
| 10 | The larger , Q-beta RNA molecules are less well adapted to a test-tube environment but better adapted to the environment provided by E.coli cells . |
| 11 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 12 | For risk ratings , however , it is interesting that feelings of risk should be less closely related to a measure of objective risk which corrects for traffic flow than one which fails to . |
| 13 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , fifty 's gone already in backhanders to a couple of the girls at Central Records . |
| 15 | So if I just arbitrarily write to a selection in every one of the areas we 're covering . |
| 16 | The Chelt 's course has been diverted in this area and consequently , it no longer actually flows to a mill which , like the majority of the mills on the lower section of the Chelt , is of brick and slate construction . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not your schoolmaster , ‘ Lewis once crossly remarked to a pupil . |
| 18 | ‘ Even so — ’ he shot her another curious look before concentrating again on his driving ‘ — I 'm sure there were plenty of other openings in careers more obviously suited to a woman . ’ |
| 19 | Digital maps are more easily adapted to a user 's needs , especially when automated cartography is combined with spatial database management within the context of a Geographical Information System ( Chapter 7 ) . |
| 20 | Moreover , the curriculum plan and materials are still firmly linked to a class by class progression and to teacher centred learning . |
| 21 | The rope was once again attached to a tree and then to the saddle of Felipe 's horse , and Maggie lay back on the cliff-top to watch as he made another dangerous trip over the edge . |
| 22 | In the latter case addressing will probably only point to a bucket number , and in searching the bucket for a particular record using the direct technique it will no longer be an error to detect a dummy record , but part of the search . |
| 23 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 24 | Note that capillary joints use ordinary electrician 's solder ; plumber 's solder is only used for ‘ wiping ’ lead joints — a job probably best left to a plumber . |
| 25 | The site was later partially converted to a steam laundry . |
| 26 | Built in the 1860s as the last privately built palace in Prague , and later partially converted to a cafe , The Slavia 's significance came from its location . |
| 27 | In 1556 William Cecil rather primly referred to a request from Henry Cobham , ‘ pretending it an offence to sell an office ’ . |
| 28 | The annual club accounts made public today point to a loss of more than £900,000 during 1990 . |
| 29 | This term is now commonly applied to a number of items , particularly from Anatolia , which have light pastel shades . |
| 30 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |