Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 32 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 33 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 34 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 35 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 36 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 37 | History , far from constituting a privileged form of ( historical ) knowledge , is simply the myth of modern man , and merely amounts to a method of analysis . |
| 38 | At a council meeting of his barons one day he sat apart , chewing a hazel twig and apparently lost to the world . |
| 39 | After giving instructions about his place of burial , he required them to go to his study and take out three great hampers of books and burn them , ‘ Inasmuch as all the comedies , tragedies , pastorals , etc. , heroical poems , love hymns and the like are full of idolatry and especially tend to the overthrow of the Christian religion . ’ |
| 40 | Changing circumstances and financial conditions inevitably and rightly lead to the need to review your pensions portfolio . |
| 41 | Above all , it is sad that so many educated people have hardened themselves against science , because if they had not , and if instead of floundering historians who have never heard of Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin , and effete scholars of English who have never heard of history , we had Renaissance men , then science might be more controllable , more easily and naturally directed to the fulfilment of human aims : an agent of democracy rather than ( as it so often has been ) of rule by military or commercial despotism . |
| 42 | ( iv ) With a micropipette , carefully expel a drop of suspension and gently touch to the surface of the spreading solution . |
| 43 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 44 | He said that the increasing number of pressure groups in other EC countries ( which at the moment have fewer groups than the UK ) would influence both public and political opinion and thus contribute to a situation in which implementation and enforcement of EC environmental legislation would improve . |
| 45 | Planting large areas of marginal land in the tropics with trees has frequently been advanced as an ideal solution , since fast-growing young trees will act as a " sink " for carbon dioxide emissions which would otherwise rise into the atmosphere and thus contribute to the greenhouse effect . |
| 46 | Sambrook , on the other hand , sees greater efficacy in Goldsmith 's protest ; he suggests that this poet ‘ established the myth of rural catastrophe in its familiar form ’ and thus contributed to the development of English Utopianism among writers from Wollstonecraft to Ruskin who project a countryside humanized by fit housing and land reform . |
| 47 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 48 | Demands for greater ‘ freedom ’ and ‘ authenticity ’ can often be channelled into established stereotypes of rebellion and expression , and thus articulated to the framework of the dominant musical ideology , mediated by a discourse which is organized round notions of ‘ youth ’ , ‘ modernity ’ and ‘ pleasure ’ ; the result can be used across the age-range and across classes , securing the interests of cultural reproduction and of liberal tolerance . |
| 49 | My hope is that with the aid of a little psychology , I might be able ( without becoming abstruse ) to clarify what these fine ideals mean , and thus to contribute to the debate about how they might be best promoted . |
| 50 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 51 | But what if a school wished to ban Sikh girls from wearing trousers , and sought to justify its action with the argument that to create an exception from school rules for Sikhs would cause resentment from whites and thus work to the detriment of racial harmony ? |
| 52 | Slowly she began to lose her fear , and just listen to the beauty of his music . |
| 53 | Some of them will just forget the guy and just relate to the daughter . |
| 54 | Indeed I had also hoped that we might pick up some extra coach passengers , who , strange as it might seem , would prefer to forgo the train ride altogether and just go to the eisteddfod . |
| 55 | Return to pan and stir over a low heat until it thickens and just comes to the boil . |
| 56 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 57 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 58 | Of the three T vittatus is the largest and the most-readily available to the hobbyist , and best suited to the community tank . |
| 59 | He began to establish a reputation in the late 40s through radio performances , and soon came to the attention of Sam Phillips , with releases on the Chess and Sun labels , playing as a one-man band . |
| 60 | The animal immediately loses its coordination and soon comes to a standstill . |