Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 2 | Between four and eight sectors will be flown , but occasionally either more or less according to season . |
| 3 | ARE non-American jazz players more or less doomed to imitation ? |
| 4 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 5 | I used to have to go to the toilet if I thought I was going to fight anyone , or just go to bed and close my eyes and think , ‘ Not long , not long , not long to go ’ , to keep myself down there . |
| 6 | Dr Peter Fleming , who has done research in Bristol , said overheating due to environmental temperature , over-insulation or both contributed to cot death . |
| 7 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 8 | However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament . |
| 9 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 10 | Tutors were offered little or no training , or even access to fulltime employment , not to mention a career structure . |
| 11 | As a result , the wider human habitat , far from being humanised and ennobled by man 's agricultural activities , becomes standardised to dreariness or even degraded to ugliness ’ . |
| 12 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 13 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 14 | Since West German parties and voters have deep respect for professional competence , lists may include also experts not distinguished for party , activity or well suited to constituency campaigning . |
| 15 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 16 | The columnist Westbrook Pegler must have approved that passage , for he wrote : ‘ The only sensible way to deal with them is to make membership in Communist organizations a capital offence and shoot or otherwise put to death all persons convicted of such . ’ |
| 17 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 18 | They are able to take in chemicals and convert them into usable energy and to synthesize all the components of the cell during growth that eventually leads to cell multiplication . |
| 19 | Rentokil and Retail Cleaning is not a partnership that naturally springs to mind . |
| 20 | Neglect yourself and self-doubt begins to creep in and that swiftly turns to depression . |
| 21 | Although largely confined to salt water in Sussex , there are sufficient inland records to suggest that one or two mergansers can be found on inland waters every winter . |
| 22 | These tiny helpless little things that just come to life day by day , until they 're people . |
| 23 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 24 | Yet a civilization existed between 1880 and 1945 , reaching its greatest coherence and strength just before 1914 , which was European in its origins although already transplanted to North and South America and the British white colonies and although unevenly spread among European countries themselves . |
| 25 | You can actually address the person rather than just speaking to mister customer . |
| 26 | But I do n't know how we 'd go about that other than just writing to town councils . |
| 27 | Bret , more determined than ever to get to Earth to warn the authorities that Chen is a traitor ( he has Marc Cory 's tape ) , has to work with Steven on some rapid repairs to the space vessel when it is forced down onto the prison planet Desperus . |
| 28 | He had this quirky sense of humour that always seemed to surface whenever Lisa least expected it . |
| 29 | Inspector Brian Butcher said : ‘ It is the case that always springs to mind when children are involved ’ . |
| 30 | I must admit , that 's the one that always springs to mind bu was it Bamber ? |