Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moor Scope battled on gamely to retake the lead from Impy Condor on the flat in the Confined and Farmer Tom was always going like a winner in the Restricted race , in which Alner and even-money favourite Baron Bob crashed at the second fence . |
| 2 | To be a professional is to exercise ( and most importantly to have the ability to exercise ) one 's professional skills and to make professional decisions , without deference to moral , religious or political beliefs and points of view . |
| 3 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 4 | ( b ) those details and examples that seem most successfully to illustrate the main points . |
| 5 | It is Christian Lacroix who seems most acutely to express the spirit of the age . |
| 6 | If you can , plan to use a tripod ; with the camcorder firmly secured , you will then be able to zoom right in to fill the screen with individual baubles and still be placed to get good normal close-ups as well as wider shots of your performers absorbed in their task . |
| 7 | Neither stars nor cloud shadows marked the darkness stretching overhead and on down to meet the equal gloom of the ocean . |
| 8 | The intent is rather merely to summarize the account of his life as given by Taskopruzade and Mecdi in order to convey the general course of his career . |
| 9 | The physiotherapist usually has several pillows available to support the patient , plus a wedge cushion , which is a foam support measuring about 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long , 2½ feet ( 76 cm ) wide , 6 inches ( 15 cm ) deep at the top , tapering down lengthwise to form the wedge shape . |
| 10 | The mixture was heated to 90°C and cooled down slowly to form the hybrids . |
| 11 | He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang , but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God . |
| 12 | They are going to give the children the idea that it is all right to change the facts to suit your way of thinking . |
| 13 | Right , no it it 's all right to stuff the elephant , but but we thought we 'd better not stop the human being as well . |
| 14 | Australia , New Zealand , Pakistan , the Philippines , Thailand , Great Britain and France came together additionally to sign the South East Asia Treaty Organisation ( SEATO ) Pact in Manila in September 1954 . |
| 15 | Ghia trim heralds a huge list of goodies , but perhaps only to turn the attention away from the lacklustre dynamics . |
| 16 | ‘ It is no longer enough merely to acknowledge the facts … and to hope that science will solve by itself the problems that it is creating . |
| 17 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 18 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 19 | For a final shot , pull back to a wider view of the scene and hold this for long enough to mark the winding-up of the sequence . |
| 20 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 21 | That evening I managed to stay awake long enough to watch the video . |
| 22 | Every year the total amount of pollutants emitted by vehicles in the UK would fill a tunnel 10 metres wide and long enough to encircle the earth . |
| 23 | The coffee at the cafe had perked him up long enough to tackle the reviews but then heat and alcohol had won and he had nodded off . |
| 24 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 25 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 26 | It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions . |
| 27 | ‘ If Charles had hung around long enough to notice the state I saw you in , he 'd have thought the worst had happened , Virginia . |
| 28 | Maclean , perhaps fortunately , did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up . |
| 29 | First , the arguments for and against are so soporifically dull that no one will ever stay interested long enough to sort the question out . |
| 30 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |