Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious result of such ‘ cuts ’ has been to affect most adversely those without any other pension provision , and has led to an increase in the numbers claiming means-tested support . |
| 2 | ‘ To see inside so many great affairs , sometimes even to help plan them , yet always in the end to be the — you say , third person ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season . |
| 4 | None of the officers had much money to spare so practically all their clothes were hand made , including their uniforms . |
| 5 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 6 | It 's important for you and the child 's parents to work together as much as possible . |
| 7 | I 'm glad young people do n't have to go to work so early these days , but for many of my generation , it was the accepted way of life , and most of them were happy in it . |
| 8 | You can decide to be imperfect , to do things in your own time , to please yourself , not to be strong and to try only as much as you like . |
| 9 | In the conditions that prevailed in mid-January this year , it is difficult to conceive just how much water was flowing through the Tay before striking south and on to Perth . |
| 10 | The research aims to establish just how such ‘ gains ’ might be generated from the commercial development of land by looking at the roles of , relationships between , public and private interests in shaping the development process . |
| 11 | This easy-to-use table will allow you to establish the units of alcohol contained in the product you are buying and therefore help you to establish just how much alcohol you are consuming . |
| 12 | Faith , my friends , is the prospect that all our relationships can be transformed , it 's openness towards a movement of grace , a path to discover just how little life is of our own making and how much of it comes from a gift which is not our own . |
| 13 | She had been surprised , in fact , to discover just how many other vessels there were out there , and would have liked to stay longer , but duty called . |
| 14 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |
| 15 | It is difficult , perhaps impossible , to establish exactly how much was spent on the two papers , Uhuru and the Nationalist , in the years between 1964 , when the Nationalist was launched , and 1972 , when it merged with the Standard to form the Daily News . |
| 16 | He would not begin to guess just how much she loved and wanted him , because he felt nothing of the sort for her . |
| 17 | Now a Greek team , headed by Professor Cesar Alexopoulos , of Athens University , has developed a technique which seems to provide just that much warning — at least for earthquakes that have hit Greece repeatedly over the past two years . |
| 18 | The side of the dusty street facing the sea was lined with houses all the way along from the pier , but it was difficult to know exactly why many of them were there . |
| 19 | At the end of a day 's trading , the retailer needs to know exactly how much money he has taken . |
| 20 | However , it is always best to make the calculations , even with small patterns , because if you want to enter many smaller designs into , say , stitch pattern areas A to K , you will still need to know exactly how much memory is being taken up and how much is left . |
| 21 | Coffin thought he would be glad to have the full postmortem results on each body to know exactly how much poison was inside each stomach . |
| 22 | They expect you to know exactly how many there are , even the exact number of barn owls in the British Isles , right down to the last check . |
| 23 | Most of the girls were clippers , specialists in stopping men on pavements and taking cash in advance in exchange for a key and an arrangement to meet indoors about half an hour later . |
| 24 | It is always difficult for a Cabinet minister to know just how much to say before a Budget statement . |
| 25 | After three years of exceptionally low rainfall , especially on the eastern side of England , it is of more than academic interest to know just how much rain has fallen on the garden . |
| 26 | Again , one needs their mind structure as well as the nasal physiology and brain organization , to know just how such an experience would feel . |
| 27 | IBM Corp 's position is not seen by Standard & Poor 's Corp as likely to deteriorate any further any time soon : the ratings agency affirmed IBM and its units ' double-A-minus senior debt and A-1-plus commercial paper ratings , affecting about $19,000m in debt . |
| 28 | I mean and lets face it you came home from school er I think we used to come home about half past four from school summertime and the first thing you come into the house and you get a great big thick slice of home made bread and jam which your mother had also made , also made . |
| 29 | Already , in expectation , the four archbishops had produced a pastoral letter in which they condemned the legalizing of divorce on the grounds of the preservation of ‘ the common good ’ and because they feared the tendency that people had to accept as right that which was legally permissible ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1985 ) . |
| 30 | He was elected President of the Congregation in 1934 , the year of Leonard 's birth , which helped to cement even further that deep family loyalty to the institution . |