Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual attributions of guilt point to left or right often according to the ideological standpoint of the scholar — and , it must be stressed , the vision of history which this implies . |
| 2 | I you mentioned going to college or or rather not going to college . |
| 3 | Now nobody would believe me or perhaps even speak to me . |
| 4 | Or perhaps still according to some plan established days before . |
| 5 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 6 | In fact , the two meetings we observed were concerned with a number of issues more or less closely related to the concerns of the project . |
| 7 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 8 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 9 | Once ejaculation and orgasm have been achieved by the man his penis will more or less rapidly return to its former size . |
| 10 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 11 | The creation of truth has , from time to time been manifest in religious thinking , but it has been either not recognised as such , or deliberately not admitted to be such . |
| 12 | In the south they were either pagan or more probably belonged to that archaic South Arabian form of Judaism which is still held by the Falashas . |
| 13 | As such it is neater than the confusion presented by a reality which can be seen as not belonging to the self ; or as perhaps belonging to the self ; or as , if belonging to the self , equally incapable of assimilation by it or separation from it . |
| 14 | Confusion arose because Roding described a whelk under the name of Nucella lapillus which is not the same species as ( or even closely related to ) Buccinum lap ii/us L. Several people have accordingly considered the name Nucella Roding to be inapplicable to the common dog-whelk , either as a genus or sub-genus , and they place the animal in Thais Roding . |
| 15 | It will always be the case that sets of standard terms and conditions contain a number of miscellaneous conditions , falling either within the popular designation of " boilerplate " , or else specifically tailored to the type of transaction that the standard set of terms is designed to cover . |
| 16 | Unblemished freaks , still in showroom condition ( or else expensively restored to it ) have been known to sell for even more . |
| 17 | Or why not travel to Ascot or Newmarket for one of the big races of the year ? |
| 18 | However , despite the ingenuity of Shklovsky 's efforts , it became clear that the differential principle behind poetry could not be very extensively or very effectively applied to prose , and the functional opposition had to be constructed on rather different lines . |
| 19 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 20 | That I think is something that perhaps also needs to be borne in mind , when we are undertaking er this particular study . |
| 21 | But most of the mealtime was spent with her either backing away from his leading philandering comments , or racking her brain to think of some comments or questions of her own — other than those that so easily sprang to mind , but which all centred around his employer . |
| 22 | This is the story that so nearly came to be cancelled . |
| 23 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
| 24 | Although only just elected to the Executive Committee as Galway Area Secretary , Tom is no stranger to ‘ 93 ’ as for 6 years , from 1973 top 1979 , he was an Executive Committee member as Cork District Secretary . |
| 25 | Leith could imagine that would be the case , and , even though she knew the answer to a question that just then came to her , for clarification 's sake , she asked it just the same . |
| 26 | Secondly , the techniques , although not widely developed to date , may culminate in the creation of more productive plant and animal crops that could help alleviate food scarcity problems in developing countries by increasing the viability of traditionally based agroecosystems , thus obviating the need for the cultivation of new lands . |
| 27 | Although not closely related to other river dolphins , the tucuxi is included here because it shares a similar habitat . |
| 28 | Although not formally linked to other current multilateral negotiations , the signing of an Open Skies treaty was widely regarded as an important means of facilitating agreement on verification questions at the Vienna CFE negotiations . |
| 29 | Although not explicitly referred to in this statement , issues such as the size of a united Germany 's armed forces and its relationship to NATO were expected to be discussed under this umbrella , dubbed the " two-plus-four " formula ( that is , the two Germanies plus the four allies ) . |
| 30 | Other types of mental handicap may be caused by genetic disorders , although not specifically related to chromosomes . |