Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deceased loved one would have been left for all to come and see , and grieve over , and most importantly to say goodbye to . |
| 2 | According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that . |
| 3 | Yet it is not enough merely to draw attention to the growth of what Marx called the ‘ light cavalry ’ of capitalism , without also observing a significant distinction within the developed countries ; or more precisely between the Old and New Worlds . |
| 4 | Whether he was intelligent enough not to pay heed to it was another matter . |
| 5 | But Community Care can reveal how she so easily fell prey to her son and lost almost everything . |
| 6 | Publicly at least , Hogan — now an octogenarian — only once gave tongue to that exultant ‘ I 've got it ! ’ claim . |
| 7 | She has the bulkiness of a mother figure , plaited Afro braids and , at first , a cautious smile that only gradually gives way to full-hearted laughter . |
| 8 | Mr Shepherd 's comments are also directed at Charity workers who he feels would be better off sending help to Croatia which is currently not under siege . |
| 9 | SAVE was now the owner of a building we had not so far gained access to . |
| 10 | The problem is that the European convention only really gives expression to traditional liberal and democratic freedoms bearing on such things as freedom of association , speech , belief , the press , and so on . |
| 11 | This , though , is only a ‘ paper ’ transaction , Dungeness B is so far behind schedule that it is only now providing energy to the grid . |
| 12 | There must therefore have been a certain piquancy for him in now extending hospitality to the fallen monarch . |
| 13 | The next issue will hit your desks in October ( 1993 I hope ) so please put pen to paper , fingers to keyboard ( but not tipp-ex to screen I beg you ) , and get your scribblings in to the publishing team by early September ( exact date will be given soon ) . |
| 14 | Admission prices are to be increased by 10pc next season , even though the Tyneside club only narrowly escaped relegation to the Third Division in the worst season in their 100-year history . |
| 15 | Durkheim ( 1893 ) , in his discussion of the ‘ abnormal forms ’ of the division of labour , long ago drew attention to what he regarded as a condition of ‘ anomie ’ in the sphere of production , characterized by the absence of a body of rules governing the relations between different social functions — above all between labour and capital — and saw as both probable and desirable a growing normative regulation of industrial relations . |
| 16 | EMPLOYEES at Burstwick got together recently to bid farewell to two of their long serving colleagues . |
| 17 | This is of particularly lively concern in those Eastern European countries where the churches have only recently gained access to the mass media . |
| 18 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 19 | But the mass media do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system . |
| 20 | The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors . |
| 21 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 22 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 23 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 24 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 25 | Eugenists not only opposed charity to the poor , but also favoured child allowances to the better-off to encourage the breeding of superior specimens . |
| 26 | As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King . |
| 27 | This analysis of the dominant building styles of our society suggests that a set of representations derived from the interests and perspectives of a particular group in society not only denies access to this aspect of culture to alternative perspectives , but at the same time causes these representations to appear to be the image of those who have been excluded . |
| 28 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 29 | In point of time , however , one can find the specific civilian proposition from the US Ambassador in Paris a week earlier , on 11 December , not only to extend aid to Vietnam from the President 's special $75 m. fund but also recommending direct ‘ Marshall plan ’ financing for Indo-China : which the French had tentatively asked for at the beginning of 1949 . |
| 30 | The scene can be " replayed " in ways suggested by the spectators , as if the spectators not only have access to the rewind button of a video recorder , but can also change what is enacted before them . |