Example sentences of "[adv] to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |
| 2 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 3 | Dissatisfaction and despair regarding domestic crises were strong motivating factors on both occasions as young intellectuals sought solutions to personal and national problems outside of China or as Wang wrote , ‘ looked eagerly to the west for the magic which would solve the problems of their country ’ ( Wang 1928 : 60 ) . |
| 4 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 5 | There was a great round of applause when the dance ended and , flushed with excitement , Cora-Beth responded eagerly to the pressure of Harry 's hand as he kept possession of hers . |
| 6 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 7 | Brenda looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Brownie Pack . |
| 8 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 9 | The National Union also reacted fiercely to the attacks on Younger by coalitionist ministers , most of all Birkenhead 's description of him as " the cabin boy " and Lloyd George 's of " a second-class brewer " . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , these circumstances point inexorably to the difficulty of emulating the Danes . |
| 11 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 12 | Not long before there had been a lively correspondence in The Times about cheese , and somewhat to the surprise of certain devotees , Eliot had intervened in it . |
| 13 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 14 | He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan . |
| 15 | I recall Leslie Compton of Middlesex bowling and keeping wicket in the same match and , somewhat to the annoyance of the spectators , padding and unpadding at the end of each over . |
| 16 | Gathering up our two young children , we edged away upstream to the cover of some trees . |
| 17 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 18 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 19 | The Riverside Theatre Foyer Gallery on the Coleraine Campus and the Foyer Gallery in the Faculty of Art and Design 's Belfast Campus promote regular monthly exhibitions , on view daily to the public during office hours , except weekends . |
| 20 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 21 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 22 | The list of people who have profited from crime and murder through book or film rights is growing almost daily to the consternation of victim support groups and grieving relatives . |
| 23 | We were fascinated by the lither , graceful women , effortlessly balancing judge , beautiful towers of fruit on their heads , which they took daily to the temples for blessing . |
| 24 | Maybe partners will come to feel that schools will respond better to the aims of education set out in the 1988 Education Act if they are not tied to curricula based on the traditional subjects alone . |
| 25 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 26 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 27 | Respondents commented on the greater sense of ownership of the new courses , of opportunities to tailor the courses better to the needs of local candidates and employers , and of greater flexibility , particularly in assessment arrangements . |
| 28 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 29 | It ran from the end of the road , pulled by a rather weary horse which had a habit of stopping suddenly to the dismay of its passengers . |
| 30 | As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground . |