Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 2 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 3 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 4 | A further difference is that the other language , English , is not learned naturally and probably has to be ‘ taught ’ rather than simply acquired through access . |
| 5 | It is , however , the case that any sentence other than the first in a fragment of discourse , will have the whole of its interpretation forcibly constrained by the preceding text , not just those phrases which obviously and specifically refer to the preceding text , like the aforementioned . |
| 6 | He began to write verses and at the age of seventeen , in sending a sonnet to his mother , declared his resolution that ‘ My poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God 's glory . ’ |
| 7 | How far they will be affected by the cuts in resources for higher education which are biting deeper and deeper remains to be seen . |
| 8 | Spanish Point club spokesman , Joe Flynn , said : ‘ Ken taxied for take-off around 4 o'clock and then climbed to about 200ft . |
| 9 | and he made me feel right guilty yesterday I , I had to buy a packet about three o'clock , so I did n't have any until three o'clock and then talk to the cat and I thought no it 's no good , Margaret I 'll have to hide this packet up |
| 10 | It had less and less to say to a home-owning , share-owning , bourgeoisified population , at least so it seemed . |
| 11 | Advertising is not alone in offering a fair and square deal to women , for public relations and other service industries in the communication field all offer unrivalled opportunities for women to complete on real and equal terms with men . |
| 12 | But that 's how cash was counted in those days and erm , the waybill was marked to agree with a man 's statement of what his cash added up to and then the cash next day was counted up bolt because there was Priory Heath to take care of , although that was n't a media when I first went down there , that opened later on , but there was the two got to be married together and then conveyed to the bank the next day , or , on the Monday if it was a Saturday or Sunday . |
| 13 | Or modules may be read individually and automatiaclly updated to a new version . |
| 14 | He and his colleagues were understandably concerned about the lack of evidence to support the beneficial claims of holistic medicine , but Dr Richards , who thought much evidence could be produced if funds were available , sagely remarked that ‘ absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ’ , a remark that lingered after a discussion that would have been better if longer and better left to the end of this excellent series . |
| 15 | It got to the stage where she would lock herself away and not talk to me , or else have endless arguments . |
| 16 | She could see the White Rabbit , who was hurrying away and still talking to himself . |
| 17 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 18 | Through trial and error you need to establish what times suit you best and then keep to them . |
| 19 | Women take more time , talk easily and still adhere to the strict rules of manners . |
| 20 | Above all , it is sad that so many educated people have hardened themselves against science , because if they had not , and if instead of floundering historians who have never heard of Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin , and effete scholars of English who have never heard of history , we had Renaissance men , then science might be more controllable , more easily and naturally directed to the fulfilment of human aims : an agent of democracy rather than ( as it so often has been ) of rule by military or commercial despotism . |
| 21 | But London offered a solution not available elsewhere and particularly appealing to a young man of his temperament . |
| 22 | The treponeme , once in the tissues , multiplies locally and also travels to the nearby lymph nodes , where further division and multiplication takes place . |
| 23 | The funeral home had an extensive array of coffins , from handmade ones produced locally and beautifully finished to ornate caskets shipped in from America , some had fur linings . |
| 24 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed I had also hoped that we might pick up some extra coach passengers , who , strange as it might seem , would prefer to forgo the train ride altogether and just go to the eisteddfod . |
| 26 | I drove away slowly and then came to the corner of Union and Gloucester . |
| 27 | When she looked up , Daak 's headless body was still stumbling forward , collapsing slowly and then crashing to the floor like a felled tree . |
| 28 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 29 | Moreover this policy positively invites tit-for-tat measures if or when another political party takes over , and this eventually and inevitably leads to an escalation of censorship . |
| 30 | This is a truth that Dick Lucas and the Proclamation Trust in London have effectively and consistently brought to the church in the last years . |