Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must all sound rather tame to today 's children , but it was a happy time ; a time of predictable routine , which gave us a sense of security . |
| 2 | Its preparing a white paper like UI 's ‘ Desktop Unix and NT : A Functional Comparison ’ that will presumably seek to bloody its potential rival . |
| 3 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 4 | We have merely aruged that such an existent necessarily belongs to only one such class , i.e. that it necessarily takes only one out of each pair of contradictory predicates . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , these encouraging results have not been substantiated in prospective studies of special forms of treatment , although it is worth noting that no proper , prospective controlled study in which patients have been randomly assigned to either a treatment or a no-treatment group has been carried out . |
| 6 | In this 1200 women were randomly assigned to either cardiotocography alone or cardiotocography plus waveform analysis ; the operative delivery rate for ‘ fetal distress ’ was double in the group assigned to cardiotocography alone . |
| 7 | After the basal evaluation ( T ) , patients were randomly assigned to either group A or B. Group A comprised 10 children ( two boys and eight girls with a mean age of 4.0 ( 2.4 ) years ) and group B comprised 10 subjects ( six boys and four girls with a mean age of 4.7 ( 2.7 ) years ) . |
| 8 | These were based on different understandings of racism which apparently led to radically divergent programmes of educational reform . |
| 9 | only goes to about five inches |
| 10 | JOHN DUNS Scotus , long referred to as ‘ Blessed ’ , has at last officially been given that exalted position by the Roman Catholic Church , almost 700 years after his death . |
| 11 | When negotiations with BR are complete and the Plc can be launched , it is basically intended to hopefully purchase land and trackwork etc . |
| 12 | ( There was an Act of Parliament in the reign of George I , just when this house was being built , which decreed that their measurements should not be less than 13½in by 9½in by ½in ; , and these dimensions are still more or less adhered to today . ) |
| 13 | We papered the walls white and put up a border : with curtains and a lampshade to match , it only came to around £50 . |
| 14 | It can be read millions of times over , but only written to once — when it is first assembled at the birth of the cell in which it resides . |
| 15 | On its sales last year , the Value Added Tax alone came to over £400,000 . |
| 16 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
| 17 | A further problem is that although we should be glad that speed control measures are encouraged more strongly than they were in 1977 , they are only applied to very small developments . |
| 18 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 19 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
| 20 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 21 | However , as most of you are only used to leisurely paddling for an hour or two in low drag vessels , please consider your decision carefully ; rafting is physically and mentally demanding and pushes mind and body to the limit . |
| 22 | Get rid of weed seedlings before they become young plants , and thin the herb seedlings when they are large enough to handle to about 6 rum ( t/4 in ) spacing , and when they have filled this , to their final spacing . |
| 23 | You must be so used to always seeing people under stress … |
| 24 | Er er I d I do n't think that we as a panel are necessarily going to ever and and and it may not be our role in fact to do so , to come to a judgement on it , but I would have thought as a matter of common sense , and common agreement , that there should be some er way in which the various parties would come together on the basic demographic statistics and would certainly accept that certain basic projections should be used i in looking forward . |
| 25 | By the end of the day he had not only helped to further that cause ; by showing outstanding courage and skill in arms in the thick of the fighting he had shown how the knight could use situations of war to win personal renown for himself . |
| 26 | The conflict was merely postponed to either later again in the meeting or the next one . |
| 27 | What he describes is a series of patrilineal descent groups , each person necessarily belonging to one because he has a father ; and necessarily belonging to only one because he has only one father . |
| 28 | They are particularly concerned about the bobcat which is already under intense pressure — about 100 000 are now trapped annually compared to just a few thousand two decades ago . |
| 29 | I was on level four , I' [ d rescued hostages , destroyed the nuclear reactor , and was all set to finally put an end to the madman . |
| 30 | ( The maxim of manner , for example , does not obviously apply to primarily interactional conversation . ) |