Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first phase , the question related most importantly to the organization of the party ; in the second , to the strategy for overthrowing Tsarism ; and in the third , finally , to the overthrow of world capitalism . |
| 2 | Precious substances contributed most effectively to the functioning of traditional societies by defining roles in the functioning of the hierarchy of authority . |
| 3 | He took the load from her and walked rather slowly to the car . |
| 4 | It is in the work of Edward Said that we can find the problematic of historicist forms of knowledge linked most forcibly to the question of European imperialism . |
| 5 | This approach is most obviously to the fore in Buddhism which emphasizes the necessity for getting beyond concepts by the use of words like anatta , anicca , and nirvana . |
| 6 | From Drewsteignton a steep lane drops to Fingle Bridge and from here the route heads upstream along the gorge , picking its way through woodland which grows thickly right to the water 's edge . |
| 7 | The lack of advance on our part should not be attributed to the idleness of a century , much rather to the genius of Maxwell . |
| 8 | It was all downhill to the causeway , and the turf was smooth . |
| 9 | That was why she was reacting so badly to the news that he had left Taipei . |
| 10 | ‘ Then perhaps only to the village . |
| 11 | These architects are good at dissembling the bulkiness of their buildings to planning committees , less so to the passer-by when they are actually built . |
| 12 | She had got only halfway to the door , however , when Naylor , with no let-up on his fury moved towards her . |
| 13 | Actual earnings are related only imprecisely to the productivity of the individual , given imperfect information and other real-world features of the labour market . |
| 14 | I can not agree with the view that consulting Hansard will add so greatly to the cost of litigation , that on this ground alone we should refuse to do so . |
| 15 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 16 | Thence northwards to Mina 's land , so eastward to the stream and over it at the place called Ufa 's ford , thence to the place called Lagness , thence to Laxley , and so to the place called Balsham , thence to the bridge at Ellridge , and thus northwards besides the marshy places , over this to the stream called ( Aldingbourne Rife ) and thence east to Waermund 's enclosure , thence to Wador 's barrow from that place to the fishpond , and from there to ( Ryebank Rife ) , and so the line runs to the sea … |
| 17 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 18 | Sincere thanks to all who contributed so generously to the thanksgiving anniversary . |
| 19 | The three week 's of a fly 's life appear much longer to the fly than they do to us . |
| 20 | But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade . |
| 21 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 22 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 23 | I wondered how you caught on so quickly to the trick of running water which will blot out all our conversation . |
| 24 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 25 | Perhaps more to the point , he is a corrupt man . |
| 26 | As a director myself of music films it 's great to know the Festival is contributing so imaginatively to the re-emergence of Birmingham as a major city of culture . |
| 27 | Perhaps , while consistently maintaining its unique character , Apple has at last moved the Macintosh sufficiently close to the PC that corporates are now prepared to take the ‘ toy ’ very seriously indeed . |
| 28 | We must also try to direct support much more to the specialist producers of high-quality British beef . |
| 29 | said that conditions ‘ go so directly to the substance of the contract or , in other words , are so essential to its very nature that their non-performance may fairly be considered by the other party as a substantial failure to perform the contract at all . ’ |
| 30 | RENTOKIL reacted swiftly yesterday to the Budget move which cut the value of company dividends — at a cost of £1 million . |