Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance , and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures . |
2 | An early morning mist had cleared and a fugitive sun glinted on leaves which were only now beginning to yellow and which hung in heavy swathes , almost motionless in the still air . |
3 | Drug abuse is spreading alarmingly fast according to recent government figures . |
4 | It should be an inconvenience which ‘ materially interferes with the ordinary comfort of human existence , not merely according to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living , but according to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people ’ . |
5 | The appeal to the sense of touch in Leapor 's description entails that descriptions are organized not simply according to visual planes , but around the persons in the poem . |
6 | He has command , but he is closed to everything which is not exclusively pertaining to military order . |
7 | For many it seemed expedient and not seriously damaging to British interests to give the Soviets the benefit of many doubts — at least for the time being . |
8 | The rise of ‘ green ’ issues , indeed , was more naturally appealing to Labour or Alliance politicians , and a powerful reminder of the rich variety of resistance to Thatcherism that British society could release . |
9 | There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ? |
10 | The two men struck a deal and subsequently Trevaskis took a 50 per cent partnership in a new company to import ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fabrics and make them up locally according to agreed patterns and styles . |
11 | or go back right coming to patronizing the |
12 | Or should it seek weaker competitors or new entrants who are often more accommodating to local policy , but may lack the resources to keep up with the pace of change ? |
13 | 's major customers have always been the well known supermarket chains , but we are now also selling to regional supermarkets under 's generic brands and to cash and carry 's . |
14 | Exhibition hall reopens in a city very slowly warming to contemporary art |
15 | The bureaucracy is the means by which inequalities are enforced without too often resorting to physical coercion . |
16 | Staying awake too late chatting to poor Thérèse . |