Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I found amazing , to the extent of keeping me occupied combating fluoridation during the past 20 years on a more-than full-time basis , was that the sales promotion experts employed to build the fluoridation bandwagon have been able for so long to lull most scientists and politicians into accepting this method of diluting and dumping waste fluorides at public expense . |
| 2 | Some of the new investment is financed by parent companies , as is shown by the growing share of investment in subsidiaries , but the resale of less up to date equipment to subcontractors is also a common practice . |
| 3 | Although East Germany managed to staunch the flow on the eve of its 40th birthday , observers said it was still in danger of bleeding slowly to death , or of suffering convulsions brought on by repression on its streets . |
| 4 | Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes . |
| 5 | This enables the centre to include immediately items which are en route in their stock control systems , rather than waiting until much later to check-in the delivery . |
| 6 | I 'm determined from here on to take things into my own hands . ’ |
| 7 | For some people chapters one and two will be sufficient for this purpose and they may wish to pass from there directly to chapter five , missing chapters three and four which are more theoretical . |
| 8 | But after a lifetime working for God , a vicar 's cv does n't offer much to more down to earth employers . |
| 9 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 10 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
| 11 | Nigel was unsure whether he hated the indecent rubber — which was at least up to date — or the flares most of all . |
| 12 | It was visibly true that the CNAA , as one education correspondent put it , was ‘ busy about the job it was set up to do — to award degrees and to make sure that the standards of them are at least up to university level ’ . |