Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that last phrase gives us a clue as to why fundamentalism holds on so tenaciously to life . |
| 2 | The face he leaned so confidentially close to Harry 's was glimmering with triumph and self-importance . |
| 3 | Impartiality can be irritating to viewers as well as to governments — though much less so to viewers . |
| 4 | Adult males retain a pride only long enough to father one batch of young females for the pride . |
| 5 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 6 | I was feeling guilty at giving in so easily to Billingsley 's blackmail . |
| 7 | Drawing on research by Nordenstam ( 1979 ) , Rogers ( 1981 ) and Trudgill ( 1982 ) , Trudgill reaches the conclusion that the fixed route of acquisition is confined to adults , or perhaps more probably to adolescents . |
| 8 | Although magistrates are officially supposed to be broadly repre-sentative of the community that they serve , in reality they conform much more closely to Lord Devlin 's cliché about the composition of the jury in pre-reform days . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most important function of deprivation payments was to compensate practices with low lists after the introduction of the new contract , which linked income much more closely to capitation . |
| 10 | His words confirmed the opinion of the Sisters of Misericord that the two children , so clever and musical , were at risk on the boat , spiritually and perhaps physically , and that someone ought to speak much more seriously to Mrs James . |
| 11 | Later the word was applied somewhat more loosely to capital letters and others of large size , introduced in the fifth to eighth centuries . |
| 12 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 13 | AS HE HAD DONE after his return from Italy , Wolfgang settled down once more to life in Salzburg , mitigating the tedium of his official duties — albeit on improved terms — at the archbishop 's court with a clutch of compositions . |
| 14 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 15 | C'zinsit was far ahead , wheeling in wide circles which brought him every so often closer to Kiku as she now rode sedately towards the hills . |
| 16 | I was so very near to Bethlehem that night , as pleading that some other homeless folk had come , our landlady had taken away one of our single beds . |
| 17 | It 's not as far to Chester as it is to Swansea is it ? |
| 18 | The Shah was not known as a great listener — not as least to Iranians . |
| 19 | Once again it boils down to confidence , and the small test I recommend on page 14 for finding out the colours that make you feel secure , can apply just as well to style . |
| 20 | It can be applied just as readily to cases in which the associates are non-verbal responses or ( as may happen with classical conditioning ) not necessarily responses at all but representations of other stimuli . |
| 21 | I think there is a case , especially , and not so much with the letters because there is a minimal amount of , of secretarial work , but with something like that I think you would really do with somebody who 's just there basically to type and |
| 22 | Well only , er thank you Mr Chairman , just very briefly to second the , the objections to the word director . |
| 23 | If the fear of being alone causes us to cling ever more insistently to others we are , at some point , likely to be left more on our own than we would otherwise be . |
| 24 | I come home here then to Ipswich : I 'd enough of Yorkshire . |
| 25 | The Santa Cruz Operation Inc is sidling up even closer to Compaq Computer Corp , following the signing of a worldwide OEM agreement which will see Compaq putting all SCO products through its marketing channels for the first time . |
| 26 | Shares did well , up again yesterday to 555p , a whisker below their peak of 558p . |
| 27 | The book made large , generous claims for life , and for itself : its beguiling charm made people reluctant to point out that what they had read was in fact a factitious marshalling of concerns that did not stand up too well to scrutiny . |
| 28 | Rose brought this up very gently to Moran . |
| 29 | The thread eventually led him out once more to safety . |
| 30 | So coming back more specifically to Selby , and taking er Mr Curtis 's ball-park figure of of seventeen hundred , erm now already we 've we 've got approximately eight hundred and fifty committed in terms of a hundred and eighty con er completions , five hundred and sixty permissions including conversions , and a hundred and ten dwellings identified on a site at Elvington in in the Greater York study , and there 's really not a great deal more flexibility , erm , because of the greenbelt constraint . |