Example sentences of "[noun] to [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SECRET tax concessions offered to British Aerospace to secure the sale of the Rover Group could take the ‘ hidden sweeteners ’ involved in the deal to substantially more than the £48 million already uncovered , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 2 | We already had the French and Germans with us , and we divided the remaining eighty-odd delegates between us so that on the day before the first meeting we could explain our intentions and our reasoning to as many delegates as we could find . |
| 3 | Burned out … testament to yet another night of joyriding . |
| 4 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 5 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 6 | It also housed countless bars and gin shops , as well as a number of churches , chapels , and temperance halls , the latter set up , as it were , in opposition to as many brothels . |
| 7 | In my opinion it is very doubtful whether all this disruption to so many people was justified by the experience I gained . |
| 8 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 9 | The 1954 election was held under the same franchise as before ( giving the vote to about half the adult population ) but this time the whole country was divided into 104 single-member constituencies . |
| 10 | Llanelli sealed their win thanks to outside half Colin Stephens , who wins back the Welsh No 10 shirt from Neil Jenkins . |
| 11 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 12 | Thanks to so many who provided 90 great prizes — especially Air New Zealand , Rhino Rugby Products , Nike , Programme Publications , Rugbyclass Coaching Holidays , England tea members and many more . |
| 13 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 14 | Your objective to get the value of your no 's from one pound to as much as possible . |
| 15 | The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language . |
| 16 | The most influential philosopher to think about the problem of the ownership of empty land , John Locke , served as a secretary and adviser to yet another of the courtier-backed expansion schemes of Charles II 's reign ; he was agent to Lord Ashley , who later on as Lord Shaftesbury became a famous Whig leader but in 1663 was a well-placed courtier and one of a group who got a charter for a colony south of Virginia to be called Carolina . |
| 17 | He sees no reason why those sharing a similar class situation should necessarily develop a common identity , recognize shared interests and take collective action to further those interests . |
| 18 | Given the current technical framework and the likely developments in the future , how can British broadcasting be financed in such a way as to brine the greatest enjoyment and pleasure to as many viewers and listeners as possible while at the same time fulfilling the public service obligation ? |
| 19 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 20 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 21 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 22 | Even the sight of the table , laid there before her , filled her with disgust , for it bore witness to so many foibles , so many fixed and rigid rules . |
| 23 | The remainder of the pitch gave brilliant , bold climbing up spaced but adequate pockets to yet another hanging belay . |
| 24 | Association director Dr John Beishon said : ‘ With a few honourable exceptions , banks and building societies are still providing a service of monumental incompetence to too many of their customers . |
| 25 | Association director Dr John Beishon said : ‘ With a few honourable exceptions , banks and building societies are still providing a service of monumental incompetence to too many of their customers . |
| 26 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 27 | But he made no reference to how this is contradicted by the ministerial rule book , which states : |
| 28 | … ( 6 ) In this section ‘ costs ’ means costs as between party and party , and includes the costs of applying for an order under this section ; and where a party begins to receive representation after the proceedings have been instituted , or ceases to receive representation before they are finally decided or otherwise receives representation in connection with part only of the proceedings , the reference in subsection ( 2 ) above to the costs incurred by the unassisted party in the proceedings shall be construed as a reference to so much of those costs as is attributable to that part . |
| 29 | Reference to possibly these small trials is made in Underground In Furness ( 1967 , p. 57 59 , E. G. Holland ) . |
| 30 | I despise the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ since it demotes it from a work inspiring extreme reverence to just another large painting . |