Example sentences of "[adv] and to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British and the French governments have already started talking , out loud and to each other , about the possible ingredients of a peace process . |
| 2 | Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the subject is covered unevenly and to insufficient depth for a final year British undergraduate . |
| 4 | This time the stalk would be on foot so that the dart could be placed accurately and to maximum effect . |
| 5 | Eyes bright with tears , she looked at Mary , and then saw Rory standing behind and to one side of them . |
| 6 | The others were spread out in a line behind and to either side of Rostov , and now he heard Arghatun telling them to bow . |
| 7 | In association with everyone else who has the chance to speak out in a democratic society there are opportunities to support the efforts of organizations like Article 19 which fights strongly and to good effect against censorship worldwide . |
| 8 | The ultimate source for much that has been discussed must certainly be Pearl , with its story of the ( failed ) escape from mortality , its heavily traditional phrasing , and its fantastically complex metrical scheme , of twelve-line cross-rhymed stanzas with alliteration , assonance , syntax-variation and ( even Tolkien did not attempt this ) stanza-linking and refrains.ii However the Pearl tradition did not last till Shakespeare and Milton and the Romantics , who are accordingly and to that extent impoverished . |
| 9 | Select a beacon ahead and to one side . |
| 10 | As the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano observes : ‘ If what is written is read seriously and to some extent changes or nourishes the consciousness of the reader , a writer has justified his or her role in the process of change : with neither arrogance nor false humility , but with the recognition of being a small part of something vast ’ . |
| 11 | Operate safely and to high health standards |