Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 2 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 3 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 4 | Rickie , apparently still vibrating to the music , sprang up from the stateroom couch . |
| 5 | To describe this as sewing is perhaps slightly flattering to the bird , for the silken thread is never used for more than one stitch at a time . |
| 6 | A LED or laser which behaves in linear fashion is more difficult to make , and thus more expensive , than a device with a light output only roughly corresponding to the power input . |
| 7 | So now turning to the point which er I think you asked us to address . |
| 8 | On this basis the rural development projects which became fashionable among most donors in the 1970s , and which were supposed to have a direct impact on the rural poor , are only now coming to the stage where a meaningful evaluation can be conducted . |
| 9 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 10 | Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . |
| 11 | This is not only damaging to the final exam marks of the Student ( since a Student who had managed 60% in the Final Examination could fail because their End of Module Tests reduce the mark ) , but foolish , since they can take as many retakes of the End of Module Tests as they wish in order to achieve a good pass-mark . |
| 12 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 13 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 14 | A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees . |
| 15 | I 'm just going for a piss now I 'm not fucking going to the toilet . |
| 16 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 17 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 18 | TIM BURTON , currently Hollywood 's golden boy with Batman Returns , is not just sticking to the obvious — even if there 's a vast amount of money in it . |
| 19 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 20 | It felt the cold from outside still clinging to the canvas that the man wore . |
| 21 | Erm , yeah , I was gon na say , it 's not even just like listening to the radio , is it , because they 're catering for the , for the sighted , they 're not , you know , if it was on radio , they 'd say more , but I mean , it 's television , but |
| 22 | ‘ British Gas will ensure as far as reasonably practicable that the goods and services which it procures are not inherently damaging to the environment during their use or disposal . |
| 23 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm just about coming to the Ks . ’ |
| 25 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 26 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 27 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 28 | One is not simply alluding to the tradition of Padraig Pearse , one of the leaders of the Easter rising of 1916 , who paralleled national violence and bloodshed to the salvation effected by the blood offering of Christ . |
| 29 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 30 | as if he could arrest their development at that stage , and set them working like articulated models in a shop window , mechanically repeating the same gestures — Mrs Mallory always pouring out a cup of tea with a warm , motherly smile ; Mr Mallory always easing himself blissfully into his chair ; Patricia always reaching for the aspirins with womanly resignation , Clare always shyly yielding to the one good-night embrace … |