Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of a ready-made framework in Scotland , the firm looked elsewhere to the English Law Society 's Continuing Professional Development scheme , launched last year and aimed at not only keeping solicitors up to date with the law but to develop management and other professional skills and to enhance career development . |
| 2 | as if sensing she had finished , Lyddy came softly in and began to light lamps and draw the curtains , gently pulling Alexandra back to reality . |
| 3 | Leaders not only brought supporters up to date with the position of the cause but resolutions took the form of reiteration of basic commitments as well as referring to current developments . |
| 4 | History thus cuts man down to size by reminding him of his origins : its characteristic insight is hindsight . |
| 5 | Josh would soon cut Hank down to size . |
| 6 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 7 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |