Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Renacena is the most widely listened to station in Portugal . |
| 2 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 3 | Well I mean all , all I know in that at the moment is that I , I 'd I would be most naturally drawn to youth , I would have thought . |
| 4 | Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters . |
| 5 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 6 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 7 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 8 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 9 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 10 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
| 11 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 12 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 13 | These sorts of childhood problems are only weakly linked to adult schizophrenia and alcoholism , and completely unrelated to manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis . |
| 14 | Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London . |
| 15 | " With his characteristic forthrightness — perhaps better adapted to engineering projects than affairs of the heart — he started his investigations " wrote his son later . |
| 16 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 17 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 18 | Some of the levels of detail that are capable of expression using the method outlined are perhaps best left to implementation . |
| 19 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 20 | She must be dreaming , but surely she had only just gone to sleep . |
| 21 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |
| 22 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 23 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |
| 26 | Net realisable value is the actual or estimated selling price ( net of trade discounts ) less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distribution . |
| 27 | ‘ I only ever go to church when I have to go to funerals , ’ said Amiss gloomily . |
| 28 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 29 | They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months . |
| 30 | So far lost to sanity were many of the Dark Elves that they readily agreed . |