Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 2 | New York was –30 miles away and , apart from business trips , he only ever returned there to compete in some of the city 's more gruelling and arduous marathons . |
| 3 | Ludwig is also the Emperor 's bodyguard and his mere presence has so far proven enough to discourage any attempts on the Emperor 's life . |
| 4 | The team effort involved in achieving that goal has been mammoth , with sales , service , administration and management all now pulling together to ensure that our customers ' needs have been met , in spite of the tremendous upheaval involved . |
| 5 | He had long ago decided never to say a word about it to any of his patients . |
| 6 | Or had someone else found it , perhaps even come specifically to find it , and either destroyed it or taken it away ? |
| 7 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
| 8 | By treating the individual rather than the environment , doctors not only do little to prevent illness but also direct attention away from measures which could prove more effective . |
| 9 | Consequently , these refugees are not merely attracted emotionally to return to Palestine but live under the pressure of a hostile environment which will continue to encourage them to leave Lebanon . |
| 10 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 11 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 12 | At the same time , he would n't feel at all happy were she to marry someone she could not possibly love simply to make her life easier , more luxurious . |
| 13 | Er er er I 'm not even hoping namely to get any of the further progress on this difficult subject , I beg leave to withdraw the amendment . |
| 14 | They do not control the party ; they are not well organised enough to do so . |
| 15 | They do not quite meet midradically to form a fan on the proximal joints . |
| 16 | The ‘ Nepmen ’ had not yet prospered sufficiently to replace the ‘ bagmen ’ , those petty speculators of War Communism . |
| 17 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 18 | Resentment flickered within her , a tiny flame , not yet warm enough to banish the chill of fear , but steady . |
| 19 | The sky is already a clear , broad blue but it is not yet warm enough to tempt the thin mist from the fields and hedges . |
| 20 | Leakey added that elephant populations had not yet recovered sufficiently to allow trade to resume , but predicted that talks with pro-trading states would continue . |
| 21 | Thus , for eurobond firms London has offered a pool of suitably trained labour ; in recent years , low levels of personal and corporate taxation ; a reasonable tax regime for financial instruments ( e.g. ability to issue bearer eurobonds that effectively pay interest gross and absence of turnover taxes — a particular handicap for the Swiss ) ; a supply of suitable premises ; the absence , since 1979 , of exchange controls ( although initially exchange controls were seen as an advantage , since eurobonds did not interfere with onshore sterling markets ) ; prudential and monetary regulations that have not historically tended significantly to raise the cost of funds , distort or prevent competition among domestic or international intermediaries ; English law ( widely accepted as a basis for international financial business ) ; the English language ; and political stability . |
| 22 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5 , where the first few pixels are more widely spaced simply to fit everything into the diagram . |
| 23 | In 1966 fewer television programmes were being broadcast live , but equipment was still not advanced enough to avoid shooting each scene in one complete go . |
| 24 | Because so many people in the West eat such a large proportion of their daily calories in the form of refined sugary and starchy foods , it was found that , when these foods were strictly rationed , daily calorie intake usually automatically dropped sufficiently to achieve weight loss . |
| 25 | Ronni moaned and pressed against him , her own hand seeking the buttons of his shirt , undoing them quickly then sliding inside to press against the muscular warmth of his chest . |
| 26 | There was a general recognition that throughout the cooperative movement and the trades union movement they had got to become more closely welded together to safeguard their common interests . |
| 27 | The NRA says the fish have probably just moved away to find somewhere better to spawn . |
| 28 | out of four of our members er , are women , and many of them are both the paid carers , the home helps , the care assistants and so on , but also then go home to look after the young or the er elderly relatives or or disabled , and so on and and as well as seeing , wanting to see far more support in the community |
| 29 | Whereas the intellectual , ‘ mathematical ’ polyphony of the Middle Ages had , as John XXII complained , treated sacred texts as mere subjects for music , music was now often composed expressly to project words especially secular ones . |
| 30 | One doctor summed up the change : ‘ We 've actually seen them for once ; they 've been out here visiting just to make sure that we are aware of their potential services . ’ |