Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive . |
| 2 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |
| 3 | One morning when Harriet had gone early to Penzance not only to shop but also to have her hair done , Liza came downstairs in her dressing-gown to find her daughter and Edna having , unusually for them , an altercation . |
| 4 | Sink them just far enough to dimple but not fracture the paper surface |
| 5 | 4 The learner is secure enough to accept or even welcome correction from the resource person . |
| 6 | A defence of this kind , a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm , requires the full definition to be put to the jury . |
| 7 | Two days passed before the man was strong enough to talk and then the Captain asked him to tell his story . |
| 8 | This was at Gloucester Road , or near it , and though the tall buildings are very close to the line here , they are not close enough for anyone inside to reach or even touch a passing train . |
| 9 | In a seminar limited to 40 participants , not everyone 's favourites can be included ; however , Harold Pinter , whom Mr Torode surprisingly regards as Ms Weldon 's ally , was invited , not only to participate but also to chair a session . |
| 10 | How easy it would be to surrender now , she thought , not only to sleep but also to the demands of these men . |
| 11 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 12 | No person presently doing business with the Vendor nor any customer or supplier who is in the habit of purchasing from or selling to the Vendor ( as the case may be ) in relation to the Business will within twelve calendar months from Completion cease so to do or otherwise substantially reduce its purchase from or supplies to the Business . |
| 13 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 14 | He was a dangerous male who was ruthless enough to humiliate and even degrade her if necessary . |
| 15 | Next , the facade of the Sprinkleroom , the function of whose spouts and nozzles ( and numbered seats and wardrobe tickets , and signs in six or seven languages ) was merely to reassure and not , alas , to cleanse ; and the garden path beyond . |
| 16 | An illustrative case may be found in the work and practical impact of William Morris , who sought not only to recognize but also to ameliorate the social and aesthetic impact of the machine , partly under the influence of socialist ideas . |
| 17 | If it is written by a perceptive and caring author , a story or novel will enable the reader not only to understand but also to empathize with people who are different , or in different circumstances and situations from themselves . |
| 18 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 19 | Clearly Sole , at 27 , is young enough to double or even treble his total of 20 caps . |
| 20 | If you think that you have suffered as a result of sex or race discrimination , the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality are in a position not only to advise but also , if appropriate , to give financial backing if there is no viable alternative to mounting a legal challenge to your employer 's behaviour . |
| 21 | Do the wages of these two great manufacturing centres indicate , along with the evidence from northern and Midland coalfields , that in the dynamic " industrialising " regions , nominal wages were buoyant enough to maintain or even improve real earnings from mid century through to the 1780s despite the burden of rising prices ? |
| 22 | It is a mystery only to man and not to God . |
| 23 | Rich had conquered his own temper enough to take and not to spoil this rare second shot at school . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage . |
| 25 | ‘ Cells need signals not only to proliferate but also to survive . ’ |
| 26 | If you find yourself with a file that 's big enough to manipulate but too big to turn into an ASCII file , cos it does use a lot of |
| 27 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 28 | This would be easy enough to notice but not so easy to interpret . |
| 29 | But Mr Major , ever the pragmatist , moved swiftly to limit and even repair any damage done to the relationship . |
| 30 | Yesterday , Mr Baron said that strict justice demanded that ‘ the European Parliament can not go on being regarded as a marginal institution , able only to speak but not to take decisions ’ . |