Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 2 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 3 | That he did not was largely down to an opening seven-frame blast from Parrott . |
| 4 | Porter was carrying a large floppy-covered book ; she went straight up to an African writer , N'dosi , showed him the book , held open , and offered him a biro . |
| 5 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 6 | Then the Line itself-supply trenches angling cautiously up to an elaborate hem-stitch of Allied positions , with the wire lying beyond , scruffy and irregular , a tide mark in no-man 's land . |