Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 2 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 3 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 4 | Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) . |
| 5 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 6 | Garland , however , seems to go rather further than this in suggesting that , in Britain at least , the emergent prison system never really embodied a ‘ reformative ’ alternative to classicism and neoclassicism at all . |
| 7 | Different rates of use are expected of ‘ serious , and ‘ recreational ’ fiction — and within these groupings certain types of works ( e.g. Bulgarian novels in translation ) must be expected to issue less frequently than others ( e.g. novels by Graham Greene ) . |
| 8 | I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution . |
| 9 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 10 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 11 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 12 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 13 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 14 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 15 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 18 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 19 | Retail demand is quite heavy and is likely to remain so even after the novelty value of the new car has worn off . |
| 20 | At Samarkand , masons were active building a grand terminus ( which was to remain so only until the railway was carried through to Tashkent in 1898 ) . |
| 21 | The eventual pensions received by women who participated in these inter-war schemes would have reflected their low and unequal pay as well as conditions of service which typically required women to retire much earlier than men , especially in private sector employment . |
| 22 | It is more important for them to see all round so they can spot hunting animals in plenty of time to run away . |
| 23 | ‘ In the public service you must expect the clock to go somewhat slower than in any other organisation . |
| 24 | One would however have to go much further than this . |
| 25 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 26 | For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits . |
| 27 | As John Hamilton said , ‘ It was imperative to estimate extremely accurately as the materials and labour had to be quantified in the original bid . |
| 28 | Have we the capacity to remain together even though there may be real theological differences among us ? |
| 29 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 30 | It will be revealed that there is the potential for both publicly owned and publicly regulated concerns to perform less efficiently than public liability companies in the absence of external constraints . |