Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Renacena is the most widely listened to station in Portugal . |
| 2 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 3 | Well I mean all , all I know in that at the moment is that I , I 'd I would be most naturally drawn to youth , I would have thought . |
| 4 | Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters . |
| 5 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 6 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 7 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 8 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough-born , though long since moved to Billingham , he began refereeing in 1944 aboard HMS Nelson . |
| 10 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 11 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
| 12 | His former general , Lord George Murray , after a final reproachful letter to the Prince , had long since fled to Holland to end his days in exile , and most of Charles 's other leading supporters had by now either escaped abroad or been rounded up . |
| 13 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 14 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 15 | These sorts of childhood problems are only weakly linked to adult schizophrenia and alcoholism , and completely unrelated to manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis . |
| 16 | The parallel approaches of petrology ( or thin-section petrography ) and chemical analysis , which have been so successfully applied to ceramics . |
| 17 | Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London . |
| 18 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 19 | " With his characteristic forthrightness — perhaps better adapted to engineering projects than affairs of the heart — he started his investigations " wrote his son later . |
| 20 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 21 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 22 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 23 | Some of the levels of detail that are capable of expression using the method outlined are perhaps best left to implementation . |
| 24 | Monumental architecture in Greece was first developed in temples and long largely confined to sanctuaries ; and sculpture in the archaic period and even after is exclusively associated with religion . |
| 25 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 26 | Only just moved to York , so I have n't erm kind of got affiliation with anything . |
| 27 | She 's only just moved to Berlin so I do n't know much about her — these provincials … |
| 28 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 29 | On an associated matter , I have only just written to Mrs Sharp formally requesting permission to borrow the large Slezer view of Edinburgh from the North currently hanging in the Edinburgh Room . |
| 30 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |