Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 2 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 3 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 4 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 5 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 6 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 7 | Their votes will be vital if seats long since lost to the Conservatives are to be regained . |
| 8 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 9 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 10 | A landscape obviously planned , disciplined , tamed long , long since , and long since abandoned to the river , the seasons and the sky ; and not a human soul in sight . |
| 11 | This function has long since passed to the Cabinet . |
| 12 | The course is only loosely related to the Pimlico Connection scheme , but 15 students each year choose tutoring in schools as their fieldwork for the course . |
| 13 | For example , the perceived colours of objects are only loosely related to the wavelengths of light that they reflect into our eyes . |
| 14 | Questions of a possible denial of free speech arise in particular where the ‘ expression ’ is not a reprehensible exploitation of the defendant 's notoriety but is a literary production only loosely related to the defendant 's crimes . |
| 15 | I was given , in all circles , a great deal of orange squash , then as now considered the drink most fit for children , though only loosely connected to the orange . |
| 16 | The question of quantity used is obviously intimately related to the way a given individual finances his or her habit , a perspective which will be taken up in Chapter 7 . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd never keep Jupe awake long enough to listen to the arguments . |
| 18 | Kate , a poor little rich girl with her own private rink , can barely keep a partner long enough to get to the Olympics , let alone win a gold medal . |
| 19 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 20 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 21 | She is perhaps better known to the local community for her involvement with two Gaelic choirs . |
| 22 | By 1844 , when Wordsworth so fiercely objected to the coming of the railway , many more people were being attracted not just for the natural attributes of the area but for all those extra attractions which were suddenly being introduced such as ‘ wrestling , horse and boat races , and pot-houses and beer-shops . ’ |
| 23 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 24 | The consequence of this is one key problem that the venture capital industry faces : not so much related to the price of loan capital , but to its availability and the conditions under which it is lent . |
| 25 | On the basis of this schema it can be argued that the high-water mark of class/party correlation in the 1960s , registered above , was not so much related to the current policies of the political parties , as to the ‘ delayed ’ effect of the social conditions of the interwar depression years and the substantial shifts within popular ideology and political alignment during and immediately after the second world war . |
| 26 | Rather to Folly 's surprise , Lisa seemed to have things well in hand by the time she had calmed down enough to return to the Rose Bowl . |
| 27 | Although triticale will never replace wheat , it is a vitally important addition to the armoury needed to defeat famine , precisely because it is so much better adapted to the marginal lands on which so many of the poor and hungry live . |
| 28 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 29 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 30 | The probabilistic approach proved to be much better suited to the task . |