Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Eden — and certain other key figures such as Macmillan ( now chancellor of the exchequer ) — this Egyptian coup was immediately seen as an opportunity to humiliate or better still to bring down Nasser . |
| 2 | Taking her cue from him , Fabia realised then that perhaps barely to step over his threshold and then at once to launch into the dozens of questions she must ask him was perhaps , in this gracious room , rather graceless . |
| 3 | Some of the more wealthy groups , or those with better pensions , have greater means than ever before to choose where to live during their retirement ( Warnes 1982 ) . |
| 4 | there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries . |
| 5 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 6 | Hence local government employs teachers , social workers , housing managers , architects , engineers and so on to carry out their professional duties . |
| 7 | Therefore they would analyse the relationships between the heart , lungs , brain and so on to understand how they operated and appreciate their importance . |
| 8 | To avoid the impression that he was leaving in a fit of pique ( and perhaps also to think through his decision more fully ) , he delayed the public announcement almost three weeks while he took a vacation in the South of France . |
| 9 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 10 | His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward . |
| 11 | Well she 's erm j erm She 's made a right judgement about erm to help people and not just to sit there watching telly or something . |
| 12 | He had a great appreciation of their visual appeal and he started the whole revolution of using photographs on their own merit and not merely to fill up space . ’ |
| 13 | It 's OK if you 're playing the same lines over and over again to thicken up the sound but if you 're playing different lines within the song as overdubs I often use different guitars to achieve different effects . ’ |
| 14 | How could father be any blurred shape on a photograph , too faded and far away to remember properly ? |
| 15 | Experience of life , and genuine discussion with people of other views , can enable us to add to , and revise , and even occasionally to give up , aspects of the stance which we have adopted so far . |
| 16 | He believes he should always save clients far more than his fee by avoiding unnecessary work which could cost thousands now and even more to remedy later . |
| 17 | But the channel was wide enough and deep enough to allow quite large vessels to come very close to the castle-stacks , certainly well within range of their cannon and mangonels . |
| 18 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 19 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 20 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |
| 21 | There was very little waiting around , and then only to build up suspense . |
| 22 | The norms concerning this are complicated and sometimes hard to work out . |
| 23 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 24 | Second , there are issues about the choice of which home to enter , the locality of the home and how long to stay once care is entered . |
| 25 | It is flexible enough to bend around the channel in the woodwork , and hard enough to push back the steel Yale bolt . |
| 26 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 27 | The object now is to analyse the implications of the current structure of economic class relations for these objectives , and therefore also to render more precise the objectives . |
| 28 | There are community therapists , but not enough to go around . |
| 29 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 30 | She 'd got a pathetic little bit in the Post Office — she helped us all out from time to time — but not enough to set up anywhere . |