Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 2 | In the 1912 London dock strike , the Transport Workers ' Federation had been willing enough to agree to a joint board and but for Lord Devonport 's stubborn resistance this might have been achieved . |
| 3 | The student will not feel a sense of guilt if she sits down to talk to an anxious patient . |
| 4 | It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick . |
| 5 | It is not enough to change to a new paragraph at intervals just because you know that a block of text is always broken up in this way . |
| 6 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 7 | As soon as the result was announced , however , Heseltine and then Hurd conceded to Major , and despite some initial confusion as to the correct procedure it was decided not to proceed to a third ballot in which a preference system of voting would have obtained . |
| 8 | For these reasons I have considered anxiously whether , if the law should be held not to provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel , the need for adequate protection of the reputation of such an authority would be sufficiently met by other remedies . |
| 9 | After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already . |
| 10 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 11 | The power to direct that the prohibition is not to apply to a refused application enables an applicant , whose application has been refused on grounds which are remediable or because of circumstances which are liable to change , tore-apply within a shorter period . |
| 12 | Their hunch was held not to amount to a reasonable suspicion . |
| 13 | In that situation , a person may choose not to contribute to a public facility on the grounds that others will pay enough to cover its finance ( and he can have a ‘ free ride ’ ) . |
| 14 | I 'd like to start before I explain that , just to refer to a few comments that Mr made . |
| 15 | In general , someone with food intolerance will respond to an elimination diet within a week , whereas someone with candidiasis may take much longer to respond to an anti- Candida diet — the response is also more gradual and less dramatic . |
| 16 | In the towns a rich and influential group of merchants , retailers , professional men and the like led their chapels in all the important decisions such as whether or not to move to a Unitarian position . |
| 17 | Halliday and Kurzhals ( 1976 ) describe the value of specialist techniques for the child who ‘ learns the simple travel techniques of trailing in unfamiliar places , squaring off directly to go to a designated place , using the cross bar techniques when away from other children on a playground and retrieving dropped objects . |
| 18 | Ironically enough , on recovery her parents were gentler with her and began gradually to compromise to a certain extent , and now she is at a college of further education . |
| 19 | Inevitably one windows will overlap another , and many are the times I have found myself moving windows aside to get to a particular application or dialogue box . |
| 20 | They will both work hard and urgently to carry to a successful conclusion , if they can , the two processes of which they are in charge — the peace conference at The Hague and the prospects for a UN peacekeeping force . |
| 21 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 22 | Divided among themselves over how far to adhere to the traditional policies and how far to adapt to a changing foreign and domestic environment , the Bakufu 's members became incapable of decisive action . |
| 23 | The text goes on to refer to a general trust clause providing that the heir should pay the legacies and carry out the instructions in the will . |
| 24 | She says it 's peculiar nowadays to go to a single sex establishment and she 's glad that men will now be able to go to Somerville |
| 25 | Hayman knew he could n't afford to have the man around to answer to a Congressional enquiry if the shit hit the fan . |
| 26 | Reports on July 30 said that France had indicated its support for a partial easing of sanctions against Iraq after the UN sanctions committee failed on July 24 unanimously to agree to an Iraqi request to sell oil worth US$2,400 million to buy food and medicines . |
| 27 | The conversation might go on to discuss the ownership of papers , and how to come to an agreeable settlement of the outstanding fees — a typical example of a problem facing many practitioners . |
| 28 | Yet sterling 's stable performance , another slight easing of money market rates , rampant rumours of a favourable opinion poll and a firm performance among government issues all converged to tempt in the odd overseas bargain hunter , helping dealers convince themselves that the world is not about to come to an abrupt halt after all . |
| 29 | She was reminded of a remark in Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix — ‘ Such a foolish conceit , in both senses , eh ? ’ — and she wondered if she was about to succumb to a similar temptation . |
| 30 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |