Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only twice before ever spoken to the man they called Sabbah . |
| 2 | On Ruth 's bed lay a brown-haired whimpering female child , also draped in a shawl and with dabs of make-up less hectically or successfully applied to its face . |
| 3 | ( Gledhill 1954 , p. 44 ) This demand for a wider and less myopic frame of analysis has only recently and partially begun to be met , primarily in a shift towards an interest in actual spectatorship , but also in related issues such as the experience of viewing and the role of cultural differences in film reception and production . |
| 4 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 5 | Above all , it is sad that so many educated people have hardened themselves against science , because if they had not , and if instead of floundering historians who have never heard of Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin , and effete scholars of English who have never heard of history , we had Renaissance men , then science might be more controllable , more easily and naturally directed to the fulfilment of human aims : an agent of democracy rather than ( as it so often has been ) of rule by military or commercial despotism . |
| 6 | ( There was an Act of Parliament in the reign of George I , just when this house was being built , which decreed that their measurements should not be less than 13½in by 9½in by ½in ; , and these dimensions are still more or less adhered to today . ) |
| 7 | Consumption ( C ) and savings ( S ) are both directly and linearly related to disposable income ( Y d ) . |
| 8 | They benefited both practically and emotionally compared to girls without such support , who suffered more from their lack of status and recognition as mothers . |
| 9 | It is significant , for example , that the artist 's claim to ‘ freedom ’ , to ‘ create as he wishes ’ , was much more commonly made after the institution of dominant market relations , and must be both positively and negatively related to them . |
| 10 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 11 | In other words , the visitor has been either expressly or implicitly invited to the premises . |
| 12 | However , although women are no longer as exclusively confined to the private world of the family , it does not mean that their work within the family is valued any more highly or indeed that there is less of it . |
| 13 | His exact statement was that he ‘ had been assured by UPH that no profit of any description either directly or indirectly accrued to UPH from the transaction with Telecom ’ . |
| 14 | She was able to carry out the simple reward programme which worked very well and then progressed to rewarding Luke for passing a motion in the lavatory . |