Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 2 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 3 | Later , as we focused in on where the changes occurred , we were able to subdivide much further and according to more meaningful anatomical criteria . |
| 4 | In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned . |
| 5 | ‘ Coming down here and talking to people is better than just looking at boards in a Jobcentre , ’ he said . |
| 6 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 7 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 8 | However , the greater solar input at the equator than at the poles would produce greater solar choking at the equator , and this can be shown to aid equator to pole circulation in the Jovian interior , thus distributing solar energy more uniformly and leading to the small equator to pole temperature differences observed in the upper troposphere . |
| 9 | On the rare occasions when people criticize you ( see Criticism on page 44 ) and offer you explicit feedback about your behaviour , accept it gratefully rather than springing to your own defence . |
| 10 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
| 11 | I said , ‘ I am getting off here and walking to the Astoria , where I will drink one hundred grams of port wine . |
| 12 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 13 | To spend her days reading and writing and finding out more and talking to people , and to spend no time at all trying to outwit awful people like Mother Clare . |
| 14 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 15 | Every roof has an individual character — so you can be sure of an investment that ; s lovely to look at as well as adding to the value of your building . |
| 16 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 17 | Because it is so plain and built entirely of concrete , the car-park effect is instantaneous , yet once get clear of the large struts that support the roof , and this becomes a compelling structure , more stadium than church even now but reassuring to the puritanical visitor after the orgy of nineteenth-century frippery elsewhere in the Cité . |
| 18 | ‘ We have tried to strike a balance between replacing what was there originally while looking to the future , ’ said curate , Fr Anthony O'Connor . |
| 19 | In this new , commercial market a major sales point is the energy saving that is possible with central control of heating and lighting , either manually or according to a timed program . |