Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority423 asserted that Article 28 ( a ) as an entirety must be given its ordinary and natural meaning , and the word ‘ elected ’ could not be read in isolation so as automatically to imply a choice . |
| 2 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 3 | Whether you are leaving on a more or less amicable basis , perhaps just a luckless victim of business recession or a change in management style following a takeover , or in an atmosphere of mutual recrimination , it is usually possible sooner or later to strike a deal with the company which satisfies both sides . |
| 4 | It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth . |
| 5 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |
| 6 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 7 | Where blood was shed , the secular courts of the land came more and more to take an interest . |
| 8 | He worked without an easel and with the minimum of fuss , placing his canvas on a chair and painting quietly , ‘ interrupting only now and then to take a gulp of alcohol from a bottle . |
| 9 | Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows , pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on . |
| 10 | Ifor came up now and then to keep an eye on him . |
| 11 | The RDLS ( Reynell and Huntley 1985 , 2nd revision ) provides separate measures of language comprehension and language production which may be used independently or together to provide a comparison of a child 's relative strengths and weaknesses in the two areas . |
| 12 | When a system of individual assessment is implemented , teachers seek regularly and conscientiously to perceive a child 's success ( be this in reading , in mathematics , or in the slow mastery of a concept in history or science ) against the understanding that child showed yesterday , last week or last year . |
| 13 | and erm , he 's got in the , in the fabric one he 's got double doors and all the rolls of carpet and erm , he 's got a table in there and obviously to make a cup of tea , got a couple of beds in there cos he 's sold them and it 's like a big warehouse and erm all around there there 's a big concreted area , you know , and er all these units and that 's where we , we reckon it is . |
| 14 | To make assurance doubly sure-and also to begin a move in the direction of greater picturability — let us now see how Schrödinger would have obtained the same result . |
| 15 | She lifted her fist again but only to push an insect away . |
| 16 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 17 | Therefore it makes sense both aesthetically and financially to adopt an installation and maintenance service . |