Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rentaf Rentafone or whoever do it , and erm eventually got to spoke to so get to speak to somebody . |
| 2 | Flight intermediate between duck and gamebird , with quivering and whistling wing quills ; less given to crouching and running than other bustards . |
| 3 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 4 | The Standard Five master Sammy Edwards was a quite volatile character much given to boxing his pupils ' ears — not only a painful but also dangerous practice . |
| 5 | They 're not , it 's true , much given to murdering old men and children ; they do n't force Cardinals to ride facing the tails of donkeys through the streets . |
| 6 | The students at Cuddesdon still found him very odd , and very unpractical , and very absent-minded , and much given to muttering to himself . |
| 7 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 8 | They 're not much given to advertising such things . |
| 9 | Like Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) , the novel is a fiercely funny tragedy : a paradox anticipated by Little Dorrit , however , which Waugh 's luckless hero is left endlessly reading aloud to his captor , and a paradox utterly characteristic of a nation much given to finding laughter in despair . |
| 10 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 11 | He was much given to quoting that wonderful phrase to describe the endless battle between man and nature : ‘ the mild continuous epic of the soil ’ . |
| 12 | He was tall and elegant , with a good head of hair , and was much given to pacing about . |
| 13 | The two divers , Chief Petty Officer Carrington and Petty Officer Grant , were curiously alike , both aged about thirty , of medium height and compact build : both were much given to smiling , a cheerfulness that in no way detracted from their almost daunting aura of competence . |
| 14 | Despite , or perhaps because of , this late arrival social anthropologists are much given to tracing their intellectual pedigree to as remote and as illustrious ancestors as they can uncover . |
| 15 | Even before his accident , he 's much given to lighting his pipe , slumping in a chair and arguing that it 's no use pushing against fate . |
| 16 | ‘ Responsibility means accepting on assignment , being personally committed to seeing it through to success and , if necessary , being prepared to accept the consequences of failure . |
| 17 | Allied to , but different from , acknowledging the need securing commitment is a matter of ensuring that everyone connected with the operation is personally committed to maintaining standards . |
| 18 | Yes , Clinton told the world 's press , he was personally committed to maintaining the ‘ special relationship ’ , and he was pleased to accept the advice of Major as the elder statesman . |
| 19 | There were boundaries as to how far he would go , but in his own way Branson was as much committed to creating a spectacle as McLaren and Reid , if for very different reasons . |
| 20 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |
| 21 | The Government remain entirely committed to bringing terrorism to an end through the vigorous and impartial actions of the police and the Army . |
| 22 | With enormous gains in the white-collar suburbs , Labour became the party of bureaucrats , administrators and a progressive intelligentsia , all predisposed to seeing a greater share of public control over an increasing range of national affairs . |
| 23 | Her duties were n't merely confined to waitressing however ; like all the girls at The Haven she did whatever was required of her from changing bed linen to washing dishes . |
| 24 | Project 2000 is putting extra pressure on community nursing staff , but practitioners are still highly committed to having students in the community , according to interim research findings . |
| 25 | Moreover , leading politicians , so committed to maintaining full employment , became deluded into thinking that the achievement of this target was direct proof of the maximisation of economic efficiency and social welfare . |
| 26 | There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves . |
| 27 | Following US Federal Communications Commission approval for the San Diego company 's new dual standard digital and analogue cellular phone , analysts are betting that Qualcomm Inc 's Code Division Multiple Access standard will win the battle with Time Division Multiple Access , Reuter reports from New York , despite the fact that the latter , which provides less capacity , is being used by McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp ; Bell Atlantic Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and US West Inc have all committed to using building Code Division Multiple Access networks ; the European Groupe Speciale Mobile system uses a version of Time Division Multiple Access that is incompatible with the American one . |
| 28 | I leave with him the thought , especially as Labour is apparently committed to adding another £9 a week to national insurance contributions for 3 million or more people , that if such a policy had been pursued , contributions for an employee on average earnings and his employer would now be about £9 a week more than they are . |
| 29 | Making parents aware of the virtues of the school , the buildings , the playing fields , the swimming pool etc is n't necessarily related to providing quality education . |
| 30 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |