Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 2 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 3 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 4 | A barn owl is n't strong enough to hold tight to a glove in a strong wind . |
| 5 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 6 | From either of these points there were several paths to be taken : a few orders could go directly to the Great Seal , but most had initially to go either to the Signet or to the Privy Seal , sometimes to both . |
| 7 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 8 | World War II had a disastrous effect and tonnages were never to rise again to the levels of earlier years . |