Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 2 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 3 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 4 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 5 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 6 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |
| 7 | Net realisable value is the actual or estimated selling price ( net of trade discounts ) less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distribution . |
| 8 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 9 | Even though some single industry groups are less directly connected to banks and financial companies , they are still deeply involved in interlocking shareholding arrangements with their suppliers . |
| 10 | ‘ I only ever go to church when I have to go to funerals , ’ said Amiss gloomily . |
| 11 | They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months . |
| 12 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 13 | The full impact of last Thursday 's freak storm in Llandudno , Conwy and the surrounding areas is only now coming to light and it could be several months before some of the 500 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return . |
| 14 | Whatever the reason , repeated tests have shown that the inclusion of sufficient dietary fibre in meals prevents the excessive output of insulin which so often leads to hunger and snack-eating on diets in which the carbohydrates are processed and refined . |
| 15 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
| 16 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 17 | This delegation apparently then returned to Moscow and told the members of the future SCSE ( excluding Tizyakov and Starodubtsev ) , as well as Lukyanov and Foreign Affairs Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh , that they had found Gorbachev seriously ill . |
| 18 | Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 . |
| 19 | Beating straps are only occasionally fitted to boards and , as the name suggests , their sole use is for sailing into wind . |
| 20 | But if you 're just generally talking to people and not actually asking anything of them , |
| 21 | Let's face it , negotiation is n't just about talking to customers and suppliers . |
| 22 | Gassendi 's empiricist views on the derivation of our ideas from sense-experience , on natural philosophy and its foundation in carefully considered observation , and his stress on the explanatory value of Epicurean atomism , were already well known to Hobbes and others when they were formally introduced into England via the publication , in 1654 , of Walter Charleton 's Physiologia Epicuro-gassendo-Charltonia : a Fabrick of Science Natural upon the Hypothesis of Atoms , Founded by Epicurus , Repaired by Petrus Gassendus , Augmented by Walter Charleton . |
| 23 | And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private . |
| 24 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 25 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 26 | For example , fraud and forgery usually only come to light when an organisation discovers the offender . |
| 27 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 28 | Back to basics , certainly , though anyone who imagines the ‘ basics ’ of forward play are any longer confined to scrum and line-out is wildly off the mark . |
| 29 | According to recent analysis performed by the Forensic Laboratory in Rijswijk in the Netherlands , Goldreyer restored the canvas and then simply painted over the surface , in some areas using up to six layers of alkyd paint , more usually applied to furniture and floors . |
| 30 | Its statement reads ‘ As of May 8,1992 , ’ OSF is still unequivocally committed to OSF/1 and intends to aggressively pursue its on-going development and adoption in the marketplace . ’ |