Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They obtained permission from the NZRFU for most of them to drift away from Twickenham and eventually to arrive in the northern Italian town of Treviso . |
2 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
3 | The primary aim of the central bank is to work closely with the government and so to operate in the public interest . |
4 | It seemed closer but it was an illusion and there was a lot of up and down to do before the final climb to this high headland point on the south coast . |
5 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
6 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
7 | We now have the opportunity to move out of the hotel and to rent the house of a Professor of Biology , and thus to save on the high cost of the hotel . |
8 | Privatization of this sort has less to do with increased public choice by individual consumers and more to do with the cheaper provision of a standard service . |
9 | As the war neared its end , with the imminent prospect of a complete victory for Tito 's forces , all these groups had a common interest to escape and preferably to surrender to the non-Communist allies in Italy or Austria . |
10 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
11 | Under section 33 of the Act of 1986 , the governors are required to consult the local education authority annually as to whether the admissions arrangements are satisfactory and also to consult with the local education authority before determining , or varying , any of them . |
12 | It enables them to give options and also to retreat behind the literal meaning of what is said . |
13 | This method of narration allows the reader to take part in the initial experience , to share in the inquiry into its meaning from the start , and then to join in the subsequent dialogue with which Wordsworth engages ‘ the Mind out there ’ ( or the ‘ Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe ’ ) in his attempt to find a fuller explanation . |
14 | He stopped every now and then to listen to the patient lapping of the water , the light breeze in the leaves , scurries and sounds in the wood which he could not identify but which helped to reinforce the solitude he needed . |
15 | It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hide up further along the road towards Maidenhead , and then to descend upon the unfortunate post-boy . |
16 | Our first aim , therefore , is to isolate significant typical events and units of social life and activity , and then to probe for the underlying blueprint , often implicit rather than explicit , that will show how they fit together into a meaningful pattern . |
17 | I also like to work one area in great detail and then to wash over the whole thing to blur it out . |
18 | From 1 January 1993 , it is intended that all members engaging in public practice , whether retired , semi-retired or in full-time employment , will be subject to the requirement to hold a practising certificate and consequently to comply with the PII Regulations ( p 151 ) . |
19 | Of even greater importance is the fact that it seems that many of the Roman estates , the holdings belonging to villas and towns , continued into the post-Roman period and beyond to emerge as the basic administrative units of late Saxon and medieval England . |