Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the growing disillusionment of the Spanish experience in 1937 , Nizan was led inexorably to incredulity and disbelief during the Munich crisis of September 1938 , and ultimately to bewilderment and total despair following the Nazi-Soviet pact and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 . |
| 2 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 3 | ‘ Goodnight , O , ’ and then she turned suddenly to Boy and said to him , very pointedly : |
| 4 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 5 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 6 | I think there is a case , especially , and not so much with the letters because there is a minimal amount of , of secretarial work , but with something like that I think you would really do with somebody who 's just there basically to type and |
| 7 | These Sephardic Jews did not take kindly to newcomers , especially to European or Ashkenazi Jews , unless they came with large sums of money . |
| 8 | Fortunately , he wrote , while every person , more or less , in the Western world , has access to pen and paper and can write down a word or two , few will turn as naturally to painting or music to soothe their troubled breasts . |
| 9 | Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit . |
| 10 | Train your eyes not merely to look but also to see . |
| 11 | Yeah , it is it 's near enough to town but out of it . |
| 12 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 13 | Faculty examinations are also unnecessary because they will add greatly to training and development costs . |
| 14 | The pilots and crew had , in some instances , been able to trek overland to safety but the aircraft , valued at many millions , would remain there imprisoned forever . |
| 15 | 15.3.3 all rights acquired by the Party in default hereunder to Background and results of other Parties shall cease immediately but the Party in default 's obligations under Clause 6 shall remain in full force and effect , and |
| 16 | It is highly addictive , comparably so to heroin or cocaine according to the US Surgeon General , and the health risks are long-term ones , so that starting is easier and quitting is more difficult . |
| 17 | Both , to begin , were hostile to the growing prospect of a corporate state where power belongs less to parliament or cabinet than to organised interests such as unions , multinationals , federations of employers , state monopolies and established institutions like professional bodies . |
| 18 | Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) . |
| 19 | This will apply.not only to mathematics and English , but also to areas such as science and arts , where at present progression and continuity are particularly weak . |
| 20 | There she spoke only to Matron and the lung specialist . |
| 21 | Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well . |
| 22 | The Bill gives the Secretary of State wide-ranging new powers , relating not only to capping but to the vast number of orders and regulations that he will be able to issue , and even to the grants that will be given to London 's voluntary organisations . |
| 23 | This use of language is poetic and characterized by the intention being applied not only to content but also to its specific form . |
| 24 | It seems essential that critical studies should be undertaken to examine the consequences not only to agriculture but also to visual amenity , recreation , conservation , etc , of alternative afforestation strategies . |
| 25 | To dwell upon the problem emotions of others is frowned upon as ‘ morbid curiosity ’ , likely to lead only to highlighting and prolonging them , thereby causing unnecessary pain . |
| 26 | ( The phrase ‘ suitable applicants ’ refers only to ability and motivation . ) |
| 27 | That problem , moreover , related not only to furnishing but to architecture , where the Rule of Taste was in similar disarray . |
| 28 | Allocations relate not only to borrowing but also to expenditure ( that is , loan sanction is given in line with expenditure allocations ) and are determined nationally to meet government public expenditure targets . |
| 29 | The high numbers of deer cause damage not only to farming and forestry but also to the natural environment — overgrazing , for example , has almost totally blocked regeneration in many of Scotland 's native woods . |
| 30 | In another case , though , they lose all moral value and lead only to bookkeeping and arguing . |