Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Ellie , ’ she whispered as she twisted to and fro to get a better look . |
| 2 | The trick was to portray one 's chief opponent as sectional , driven by class envy , and a danger to social and economic stability , and thereby to provoke a defensive coalition against him . |
| 3 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 4 | If it is accepted , as I argue , that a judge , when sitting in his court , is frequently required to make decisions which involve an assessment of where the public interest lies and so to make a political decision , then he can not be said to act neutrally , although he may still be the person best suited to make that particular decision . |
| 5 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 6 | This gives an opportunity for your message to gain more attention from the reader and perhaps to make a deeper impression . |
| 7 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 8 | All of these appointments could be used to help friends and thus to sustain a political interest . |
| 9 | The intrusive authorial voice itself is often used to point to the formal conventions of the novel , and thus to prevent a naive confusion of literature with life . |
| 10 | An article by Baker in the winter 1991 issue of the quarterly journal Foreign Affairs had proposed a " two-plus-four " formula for talks between North and South Korea , and the USA , the Soviet Union , China and Japan to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula and possibly to guarantee a negotiated solution . |
| 11 | In the not-too-distant past the attitude of physicians was very much to avoid even the suggestion of hypoglycaemic reactions at any time , and always to keep a little glucose in the urine , especially at bedtime . |
| 12 | As jobs become even more complicated we have to look harder and harder to find a suitable person to fill them . |
| 13 | From the 1860s the companies increasingly used standardized designs for their country stations , partly for economy and partly to promote a corporate image after a series of company amalgamations which had produced the great conglomerates which were to dominate the railway scene until the 1923 grouping . |
| 14 | On policy Antall stated : " The European Community is our most important target and we want to concentrate all our means to join as an associate member as soon as possible , and later to become a full member . " |
| 15 | His close friendship with Beatrix Potter [ q.v. ] encouraged her to publish her earliest books and later to become a generous donor of land to the National Trust . |
| 16 | Get people along get the information networked and also to maintain a political presence amongst the people who are writing to or potentially to vote for us . |
| 17 | ‘ We have achieved our two objectives — to encourage young chefs to look out for and use British ingredients in their recipes , and also to find a delicious selection of dishes to use in the British menu promotion later this year . ’ |
| 18 | Five years of therapy later , I realise what a lot of ‘ work ’ we did have to do to understand the underlying reasons for my eating disorder , and for many other things in my life , and also to have a wider understanding of eating disorders in general and what they are about . |
| 19 | Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state . |
| 20 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 21 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 22 | Yet it would be a grotesque misrepresentation to suggest that the Marshall plan consisted merely of cash handouts which enabled the recipients to fund a higher level of imports , and hence to run a higher pressure of domestic demand without serious inflationary problems . |
| 23 | Apply it to one surface then press together quickly and accurately to make a good contact . |
| 24 | He published a book of verse and some contributions to learned journals , but his efforts to obtain financial compensation , to publish an illustrated magnum opus about his Afghan years , to return to Afghanistan , and even to complete a half-finished novel all came to nothing . |
| 25 | Gather the mixture together , then divide into two and lightly rock each ball of dough backwards and forwards to make a smooth surface but do not knead it . |
| 26 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 27 | In parliament , Lennox-Boyd restated his position on 11 May 1956 : ‘ If a general election is held Her Majesty 's Government will be ready to accept a motion calling for independence within the Commonwealth passed by a reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature and then to declare a firm date for this purpose . ’ |
| 28 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 29 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 30 | It is little use allowing conditions to deteriorate for three months and then to conduct a total clean-out of the filter and a 100% water change . |