Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blues veterans Jimmie Rodgers and Otis Rush both created their own blues magic and surprise guest Buddy Guy stunned the audience with some of his best and most fiery playing to date . |
| 2 | I 've got a Congress fund which , I mean today it 's getting so dear to go to Congress erm you know , the hotels are so dear . |
| 3 | Words are so crude , so terribly primitive compared to drawing , painting , sculpture . |
| 4 | Once a worry-eater — usually a woman — learns to become more aware of herself and her emotions in the way shown in part II , she will be more able to control her reactions to stress and anxiety and less likely to turn to food for comfort . |
| 5 | The most modified milks are the whey-based formulas such as SMA Gold Cap , Aptamil , Osterfeed and Cow & Gate Premium and these are less likely to lead to allergy . |
| 6 | Push into place so adhesive clings to glass — smooth down The adhesive is very strong so do not remove the thermometer once in place |
| 7 | If minor degrees of depression or diminished wellbeing lead to significantly lower blood pressure , then it should follow that depression that is sufficiently severe to lead to hospital admission will be associated with substantially reduced blood pressure . |
| 8 | The computer ‘ forgets ’ whatever is stored in RAM when it is switched off ; which is why it is so important to save to disk any files you have created beforehand . |
| 9 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 10 | Charles 's government was as concerned about trade as its predecessor and was not restrained by any deep Protestant sympathies , so it was naturally inclined to go to war with the Netherlands , and in the 1660s this was popular . |
| 11 | I do n't think they 'd be so anxious to go to war if they did . |
| 12 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 13 | Wedding guests and others on the way to whatever feast are not so ready to listen to distress in the present tense . |
| 14 | The result would be a black hole : a region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape to infinity . |
| 15 | It can also increase your bargaining powers if the other side knows you are not afraid to go to court . |
| 16 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 17 | This way , DEC were able to maintain investment in PDP-11 software by those who were not prepared to upgrade to VAX immediately . |
| 18 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed . |
| 21 | Further , the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 are clear and they are mandatory in form , to the extent that if the justice is not of the opinion that the person is not likely to surrender to custody , or has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , the justice has to grant him bail subject to the same conditions , if any , as were originally imposed . |
| 22 | Alan 's case is not unusual according to watchdog Lautro . |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled . |
| 24 | The reasons for this are largely practical relating to Tax regulations rather than the underlying theoretical debate about the way in which by adjusting the owners salary the performance measure can be manipulated . |
| 25 | The mnemonics ensure that after a minimum of experience with the structure it is no longer necessary to refer to Figure 11.3 when transmitting or receiving . |
| 26 | To her , it was somehow disrespectful to talk to Cabinet ministers in a sweater . |
| 27 | Once you begin to understand some of the antecedent events that control your own eating behaviour you will be able to plan out a positive approach , by working out those antecedent events most likely to lead to success . |
| 28 | Direct contact is most likely to lead to infection of the skin , conjunctiva or mucous membrane . |
| 29 | Further along the line , Oakworth Station was closed and looking a little dishevelled owing to platform repairs ; a remarkable sight was the boiler of ‘ City of Wells ’ standing in splendid isolation in the sidings . |
| 30 | Bathgate 's abandoned shale quarry proved to be the site of Stan 's most remarkable find to date . |