Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political decisions may also be taken suddenly and drastically to increase school enrolments . |
| 2 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 3 | The class will take place at the Dolphin Centre on Sunday March 29 between 10.30am and 12.30pm to earn cash for Darlington Day Care Centre Appeal . |
| 4 | But ‘ overtly and freely to express opinion ’ implies some opportunity and machinery for making that opinion known , and therefore implies some kind of a suffrage , some kind of a voice or vote … ( 3 ) In matters of contention between sections of public opinion it is the majority opinion that prevails . |
| 5 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 6 | Which is very light so to compensate for this a ply line is used this is a rubber line which is quite thick and the rod is flicked backwards and forwards to let line out . |
| 7 | In the meantime voluntary organisations and community groups are urged to work together locally and regionally to coordinate information gathering and analysis through existing networks and development agencies ( e.g. CVSs , NCVO , associations , federations , church bodies or other ) . |
| 8 | Earlier in the month the human rights organization Amnesty International had warned that the prospects for a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa would be seriously threatened if the government failed to intervene effectively and impartially to stop violence and curb the excesses of the security forces . |
| 9 | However advantageous it may be either ideologically or strategically to view Nizan 's communist itinerary from a post-Stalinist perspective , the result of such perceptions is merely to obliterate the reality of Nizan 's lived experience beneath contemporary images and stereotypes . |
| 10 | A few years later Clement V , formerly archbishop of Bordeaux , granted Edward further papal tenths , and thus relieved him of the need to tax the clergy directly or even to seek subsidies from his difficult lay subjects . |
| 11 | But I felt strongly that , like Dickens again , though not to the same extent , he needed occasionally to get out into the open : which is why he made his way down to Cornwall once or twice to see Ronald Duncan . |
| 12 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 13 | Part of the problem is that , because we know we should be cutting down on the amount of sugar we eat , we 're turning more and more to diet drinks , which contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin . |
| 14 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 15 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 16 | And then I had tried harder and harder to obtain opiates and would do my damnedest to get hold of morphine , opium , diamorph and anything , y'know … . |
| 17 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 18 | They must know their product thoroughly and how to promote sales by word of mouth , telephone or correspondence . |
| 19 | In truth , the number of individuals who have emigrated solely or mainly to save tax is small . |
| 20 | The most subtle strategy available to a teacher is that of teacher-in-role , for this device is flexible enough to have any one of the three functions ; it can take the pupils ' attention off themselves by allowing them passively or actively to use teacher 's role as a projection , or it can be non-projective and challenge the pupils to interact . |
| 21 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 22 | If we had a well-oiled party machine , we should be able to move into a higher gear every now and again to win elections . |
| 23 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 24 | He was prepared to sit there listening , just putting in a remark now and then to keep things moving . |
| 25 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 26 | There was a continuing output of serious social investigation which had as its aim the accurate delineation of social problems and implicitly or explicitly to indicate solutions . |
| 27 | He asked them to come up today or tomorrow to start work on the er pipe work again . |
| 28 | The person decides consciously or not to devote time and energy to a particular activity . |
| 29 | The right fashionable scarf , belt , necklace , etc. can be used simply and quickly to update outfits and add variety to simple clothes . |
| 30 | Their views should be sought regularly and systematically to inform decisions about what services should be provided . |