Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Eden — and certain other key figures such as Macmillan ( now chancellor of the exchequer ) — this Egyptian coup was immediately seen as an opportunity to humiliate or better still to bring down Nasser . |
| 2 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 3 | it 's more or less just to say you 've got something |
| 4 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 5 | But before she could decide whether or not finally to deny it he stopped her in her tracks with another accusation — one that she had definitely not seen coming . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation . |
| 7 | They must be the pair who proposed to retire here one day , Meredith deduced , come to check on the property or possibly even to spend Christmas here . |
| 8 | She did not think he would like to hear from her , or possibly even to think about her . |
| 9 | It has another important use as a support for the sail , either in the decorative sense to form shapes in profile , or more commonly to give depth to the sail for aerodynamic reasons . |
| 10 | Accordingly one of the objectives of government may be to achieve stable prices , or more realistica-lly to reduce the rate at which prices are rising . |
| 11 | There seems no readiness in our government to listen and learn for argument , no capacity for trust and no ability to face the facts which include the vital issues morale and motivation , ways of running things which you simply ca n't put down to cost accountants , but which is absolutely essential to do with solidarity and caring and so on to make things actually work , and as for economics , whenever econor economy from the Germans , upwards or downwards so to speak , is in trouble the future is clearly frightening is n't it ? |
| 12 | The first is from outside concerning the State and the second from inside , in that the inhabitants can not adapt their own technologies fast or radically enough to maintain an increase in their incomes , nor can they find a solution elsewhere by migration and a secure source of income outside the region altogether . |
| 13 | Quite apart from this we can show that MCE is not performed consistently or accurately enough to provide effective codes even in this unimodal situation . |
| 14 | This sometimes means eliminating most of the original actors , and stretching down the hierarchy or even outside to discover a new chief who was not part of the original team . |
| 15 | However , it does pay to provide some care and attention when growing herbs in the mass , to ensure their greater decorativeness and well-being , or even simply to curtail the activity of the lustier wild plants . |
| 16 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 17 | There are nasty people ( a pox on their house ) who use fresh-minted language not simply or even primarily to communicate with their peers , but to repel boarders ; just as prep-school boys use cabalisms to confuse rival Football teams . |
| 18 | The scientists themselves can not be held solely or even chiefly to blame . |
| 19 | In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity . |
| 20 | No wonder Roger was scathing about the visitors , here they were , two parties of them , refusing to talk to him and vying to persuade Blackwall into some sort of agreement with them or even possibly to part with whatever rights he had . |
| 21 | NAFTA , if and when it comes , will boost the Mexican economy , but not quickly or strongly enough to stem the tide . |
| 22 | If this does appear to be happening there is a need either to warn the teachers in the unit documentation or maybe even to indicate possible dangers within the program . |
| 23 | My Lord of Buckingham come to Templecombe thinking the relics might be hidden here , or maybe just to verify with Hopkins that what he had been told was the truth . |
| 24 | Societies have an extraordinary capacity either to consider objects as having attributes which may not appear as evident to outsiders , or else altogether to ignore attributes which would have appeared to those same outsiders as being inextricably part of that object . |
| 25 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 26 | They urged the EC to extend the generalized system of preferences ( GSP ) to a range of products from the region , and thereby effectively to allow them duty-free entry to the European market . |
| 27 | By absorbing these , the subject is then in turn able to impose them upon some new domain not previously encountered , and thereby immediately to assimilate this into its particular cultural order . |
| 28 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 29 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 30 | While the middle single coil on the EG-2 is of regular design , the single coils on the EG-1 are designed especially to keep the noise down , and presumably also to emulate Gibson 's P-90 in picking up more of the vibrating string , thanks to some added width . |