Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 2 | For the orthodox , however , it is not so much an aid to devotion as a way of communicating with God . |
| 3 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 4 | Just as the causes of family failure are many and varied , so too the approach to family welfare must be on a wide front . |
| 5 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 6 | Why the hell is there never a cloth to hand when it 's wanted ? ’ |
| 7 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |
| 8 | But this about heaving and pushing and grunting and panting above her parted legs — was n't it too specific , too obviously the prelude to masturbation , too explicitly the expression of strong physical yearning for her who should , in his own prose , be protected and left unsoiled ? |