Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 2 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 3 | It 's easy to sway the emotions by showing monkeys with their brains cut open , genetically stunted pigs or smoking beagles , less so to drag on someone suffering from a vile disease and say ‘ this person will die unless we keep on chopping up small furry creatures . ’ |
| 4 | She heard nothing of the gossip exchanged at the laundry that morning , and answered only absently to pieces of news she was given . |
| 5 | Trent ( Triento in northern Italy ) was within the imperial territory , but sufficiently close to Rome for the papacy to influence events . |
| 6 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |
| 7 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 8 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 9 | And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland . |
| 10 | RIGA ( Reuter ) — Latvia 's mass Popular Front movement yesterday approved an ambitious plan for independent statehood in the biggest challenge so far to Moscow from the restive Baltic republics . |
| 11 | she 's old enough now to sort of have thought it out really , is n't she ? |
| 12 | So I 've basically got ta take one of those suit holders in tomorrow to school for my costume . |
| 13 | It would deal with wasteful prescribing and wide variations in performance to be found between one hospital and another , which could not be put down simply to lack of resources , he said . |
| 14 | The two machines , one for Britain and one for France , were handed over and it was to be Bertrand 's responsibility to transport one to Paris and so on to London in the French diplomatic bag . |
| 15 | Moved up or down accordingly to positivity/negativity of the adjective ’ . |
| 16 | Much closer to home for me , we listened to the hon. Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who represents and lives in the Blackbird Leys part of Oxford . |
| 17 | BR indeed continued to change the country 's very geography , Gatwick suddenly becoming much closer to London with its Express every fifteen minutes , places like Peterborough and Swindon now almost as accessible as suburbs only fifteen miles away from Piccadilly . |
| 18 | A second station , built in 1855 for the long defunct Stamford and Essendine Railway , was even more elaborately Tudor and indeed much closer to Burghley in its detailing . |
| 19 | The database is open only to members of APIL . |
| 20 | This is open only to residents on the campsite or for people eating there . |
| 21 | These offers are open only to readers in the UK until 23 November 1992 . |
| 22 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 23 | It was a beginning , but 1815 was reached with not much to acclaim in day-school provision for working-class children and with no national policy as yet in prospect . |
| 24 | Like the Race Relations Act 1976 it applies not only to discrimination in relation to admissions , but also to the benefits , facilities and services offered by the school and the arrangements for discipline , including exclusion from school . |
| 25 | The new policy applies not only to purse-seining in the Eastern Tropical Pacific , but also to all tuna caught anywhere with gill-nets , whether drift-nets or set-nets . |
| 26 | This research will illuminate those trends , and contribute not only to debates about changing pattern of voting behaviour but also likely political futures . |
| 27 | The lesson was not heeded , and when a second call came Charlemagne decided not only to march into Lombardy , but to stay there . |
| 28 | The research should contribute not only to knowledge about the degree and type of control over this area of professional practice but also provide information on aspects of general medical services which have given cause for complaint . |
| 29 | This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve . |
| 30 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |