Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political decisions may also be taken suddenly and drastically to increase school enrolments . |
| 2 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 3 | For those universities producing the largest numbers of theses , it was considered that personal visits to their libraries for examination of the consultation records was desirable , so as also to study storage conditions , ease of access , and to discuss regulations on access , loan , and copying with the relevant library staff . |
| 4 | What is becoming increasingly clear is that the Labour party is trying to do nothing other than promote scare stories so as deliberately to frighten people who have traditionally relied on adult education courses . |
| 5 | We too need to read the Bible in our hearts , rather than simply to discover facts or satisfy our curiosity . |
| 6 | Equally , speaker A may be said to use more of variant X in situation Y than in situation Z , rather than categorically to use X in either situation . |
| 7 | This would strengthen the case of Kim Il Sung moving sooner rather than later to defeat Syngman Rhee and transform the whole of Korea into a communist state . |
| 8 | I feel that it would be much better to talk about the issues internally first , with due reference to our own training budget and other constraints , rather than just to send staff out on external management training courses . |
| 9 | The class will take place at the Dolphin Centre on Sunday March 29 between 10.30am and 12.30pm to earn cash for Darlington Day Care Centre Appeal . |
| 10 | But ‘ overtly and freely to express opinion ’ implies some opportunity and machinery for making that opinion known , and therefore implies some kind of a suffrage , some kind of a voice or vote … ( 3 ) In matters of contention between sections of public opinion it is the majority opinion that prevails . |
| 11 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 12 | Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out . |
| 13 | In the meantime voluntary organisations and community groups are urged to work together locally and regionally to coordinate information gathering and analysis through existing networks and development agencies ( e.g. CVSs , NCVO , associations , federations , church bodies or other ) . |
| 14 | Earlier in the month the human rights organization Amnesty International had warned that the prospects for a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa would be seriously threatened if the government failed to intervene effectively and impartially to stop violence and curb the excesses of the security forces . |
| 15 | However advantageous it may be either ideologically or strategically to view Nizan 's communist itinerary from a post-Stalinist perspective , the result of such perceptions is merely to obliterate the reality of Nizan 's lived experience beneath contemporary images and stereotypes . |
| 16 | A few years later Clement V , formerly archbishop of Bordeaux , granted Edward further papal tenths , and thus relieved him of the need to tax the clergy directly or even to seek subsidies from his difficult lay subjects . |
| 17 | But I felt strongly that , like Dickens again , though not to the same extent , he needed occasionally to get out into the open : which is why he made his way down to Cornwall once or twice to see Ronald Duncan . |
| 18 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 19 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 20 | Part of the problem is that , because we know we should be cutting down on the amount of sugar we eat , we 're turning more and more to diet drinks , which contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin . |
| 21 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 22 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 23 | And then I had tried harder and harder to obtain opiates and would do my damnedest to get hold of morphine , opium , diamorph and anything , y'know … . |
| 24 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 25 | Prussia 's pre-eminence was institutionalised in that the King of Prussia was ex-officio the chairman of the Bundesrat , but this was only as titular Head of State , not head of government : in all matters Bismarck was keen to stress the federal , decentralised aspects of the constitution , both to reassure the smaller states that they were not being swallowed up and also to convince Prussia that she was not losing sovereignty to the supranational authority either . |
| 26 | This has led some economists to rule out or substantially to downgrade price as a factor [ Caves , 1968 ; Posner and Steer , 1979 ] . |
| 27 | In truth , the number of individuals who have emigrated solely or mainly to save tax is small . |
| 28 | The most subtle strategy available to a teacher is that of teacher-in-role , for this device is flexible enough to have any one of the three functions ; it can take the pupils ' attention off themselves by allowing them passively or actively to use teacher 's role as a projection , or it can be non-projective and challenge the pupils to interact . |
| 29 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 30 | If we had a well-oiled party machine , we should be able to move into a higher gear every now and again to win elections . |