Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been with the police for 14 years and only recently transferred to Whickham police station near Gateshead . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters . |
| 4 | Monumental architecture in Greece was first developed in temples and long largely confined to sanctuaries ; and sculpture in the archaic period and even after is exclusively associated with religion . |
| 5 | As women mature , their outward appearance becomes more and more strongly related to character . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the other hand , comparisons with national data may be less relevant in that there may be broad geographical variations either in incidence or in case ascertainment that would make it difficult to determine whether an increase in Seascale or Allerdale and Copeland was a local effect ( and hence possibly related to Sellafield ) or whether it affected the whole of Cumbria . |
| 8 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the category of ‘ art ’ is normally and even insistently applied to works which have no other purpose but to be works of art |
| 10 | The Dwarf Lord 's son , Kazrik , was not taken captive but was shaved , and his head tattooed with a crude Orc glyph representing Gorfang , and then firmly nailed to Kazador 's own throne . |
| 11 | All the tissue samples had been fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for 24 hours at room temperature and then routinely processed to paraffin wax . |
| 12 | Both have wide experience of the middle market business , Ian Neill having also worked for Berni and Pizza Express before taking over Mecca 's restaurant division , which was acquired by Rank and then recently sold to Michael Guthrie in a £20m deal . |
| 13 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 14 | His plan was certainly crazy and almost definitely doomed to failure but it was his only option . |
| 15 | The US scientist Ronald Bracewell seems to have been the first to have suggested that sending or listening for radio signals is a haphazard business and almost certainly doomed to failure , because the task of covering the millions of ‘ likely ’ stars is well-nigh impossible . |
| 16 | The series of vernacular meditations based on the Franciscan Meditationes Vitae Christi are quite specifically organised in terms of the Canonical Hours as is the series in the thirteenth-century Mirror of St Edmund of Abingdon which was translated from the Latin in the fourteenth century and almost certainly known to Rolle . |
| 17 | Much will be gained by the individual and very little lost to society . |
| 18 | In the upland and hill areas collecting and moving sheep can take a considerable amount of time , and controlling the dog was a non-physical job and therefore well suited to wives . |