Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 2 | When the child is able to speak , he can answer many questions which are asked gently and naturally to test how much he has learnt . |
| 3 | … including particularly , in the light of recent events , a paragraph on prison security on the general lines that prisons should be better to live in and harder to get out of . |
| 4 | Those with short-term orientations will not have the tenacity to hold on , to fight , to be pushed down and still to get up again , simply because their time orientations are too short ( 6 months to 1 year ) for the longer-term perspective ( 5 to 10 years ) . |
| 5 | bloody ages doing things like if , if mode so and so to work out whether it 's a Monday or a Tuesday or something and then trying and everything else to try and get |
| 6 | But a decade or so later , the Darlington Wagon and Engineering Company was finding there was less and less to boast about . |
| 7 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 8 | In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-founded criticism of the recent franchise round and despite the uniform excellence of the successful tenders , will my right hon. Friend nevertheless consider the possibility of providing a review system so as either to show up ways in which it could be improved in future or to demonstrate that an extremely good job has been done by the Independent Television Commission ? |
| 9 | They could see that there were problems presented in the work of Davy or Faraday ; and if they were lucky they might in a later course see the problem solved , only as ever to raise more . |
| 10 | It was as if by revealing a hint of softness to Nutty , knowing that she suspected him of acquiescing in order to save Firelight from the chop , a girlish affection betrayed , he then behaved more churlishly than ever to make up for it . |
| 11 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 12 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 13 | While little direct evidence is available on the fate of the mountain populations during this period , there is little doubt they were too weak numerically and organizationally to put up any effective resistance to either power . |
| 14 | Remedies can be given both pre-operatively and post-operatively to speed up healing and to counteract any effects of anxiety , shock and the anaesthetic . |
| 15 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
| 16 | Well Val was telling me Caroline got the kids all in a row and said something about erm you know , more or less to say well I want to leave your father she said |
| 17 | Selkirk threw him a cloak , telling the clerk to make himself as comfortable as possible and Corbett slept fitfully , waking once or twice to go up on deck to vomit his dinner into the sea amidst the jeering catcalls of the night watch . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been rather avoiding the flat except to call in once or twice to pick up mail , but I 'd a letter this morning from Rachel . |
| 19 | Now he 's got to work harder than ever to get up to speed . |
| 20 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 21 | He felt strong and wanted more and more to reach somewhere that had less evidence of the patterning of Man . |
| 22 | The top rail is joined to the uprights by dovetail housings and to cut the mortises for the laths I found that it was best to hold the rail in the vice with blocks to pack it out and then to cut down vertically . |
| 23 | She watched him along the road and then ran in the opposite direction , singing a high , careless tune , breaking off now and again to laugh rather wildly , so that several people in the street turned to stare at her , surprised . |
| 24 | I made my way slowly through the crowd of people , pausing now and again to chat briefly to people I knew . |
| 25 | She was the last person living to speak the language of the native islanders , so it was a pity that she could no longer use her tongue , except now and then to rasp out a harsh fragment of a song . |
| 26 | The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’ |
| 27 | The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on . |
| 28 | ‘ But PDAG has organised a seminar at the Copthorne Hotel today and tomorrow to discuss how to transfer their work to the quangos . |
| 29 | At last , when they had all gone home , I started woozily and happily to clear up . |
| 30 | And , of course , if the ferret is half-starved its first and understandable reaction on encountering a rabbit in a burrow is to kill immediately and then to settle down and eat it . |