Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( PP must always speak naturally and up to time , otherwise these exercises are useless . ) |
| 2 | He needed less and less to work , his commercial and film scores earning him a steady residual income . |
| 3 | Easy the congestion with a very special binder for our pull-out-and-keep Gardeners ' Manual , and keep this invaluable reference work together and always to hand . |
| 4 | Some patients respond quickly and satisfactorily to treatment . |
| 5 | Now , TB is practically non-existent in the Western world , and something we tend to forget all about , except on the odd cultural occasion when we hear Mimi coughing herself so touchingly and melodically to death in La Bohème , or read the life of a Lakeland poet , or dwell on the saga of the Lady of the Camellias . |
| 6 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 7 | The outcome in the wider area of Church organization was that while Protestantism surrendered more and more to nationalism , Erastianism and/or fragmentation , Catholicism held these forces in check through clericalism , centralization and an enhanced uniformity . |
| 8 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 9 | The curriculum should help learners acquire and develop ( i ) knowledge and conceptual understanding , ( ii ) skills , ( iii ) personal qualities and attitudes , so that they will be able ( iv ) to take advantage of opportunities and cope with challenges in the various circumstances of their present and future lives — to enable and encourage them to contribute responsibly and constructively to society ( in its various facets ) and so that their personal lives may be enriched . |
| 10 | But those images are becoming harder and harder to stomach in a world hit by recession . |
| 11 | In his report on the Hillsborough disaster , Lord Taylor , now Lord Chief Justice , said : ‘ The presence and activities of touts have a grossly anti-social effect , leading both directly and indirectly to disorder . ’ |
| 12 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 13 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 14 | ‘ This regular , increasing , and almost unvaried diet of sensation without commitment ’ would ‘ render its consumers less capable of responding openly and responsibly to life ’ and ‘ induce an underlying sense of purposelessness ’ . |
| 15 | Hope this keeps us straight and up to date . |
| 16 | With anti-lock as standard , they respond smoothly and effectively to instruction and show no signs of fade during repeated hard stopping . |
| 17 | If one were to follow Descartes and attribute that variability to the mind , then animals who were mindless in the opinion of Descartes and Kant would react reliably and predictably to injury . |
| 18 | A sharp fall in output of steel and smaller falls in mechanical engineering goods , commercial vehicles , beer , tobacco and consumer durables offset continuing increases in chemicals and pharmaceuticals , which have responded fast and positively to devaluation . |
| 19 | Once sown or planted , herbs will grow strongly and healthily to maturity in the majority of cases without help , except while seedlings or young plants , but even so the help needed will be minimal . |
| 20 | 3 When you have almost passed Carn Llidi , fork right inland , heading uphill and immediately to right of prominent stone-walled enclosure to go up on to left-hand shoulder of Carn Llidi . |
| 21 | The acceptance of a contract which sets out detailed conditions of service , hours worked and parents met is unlikely to provide the flexibility that is required for schools to respond quickly , humanely and sympathetically to family needs . |
| 22 | We are getting closer and closer to entry by examination only . |
| 23 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 24 | ‘ Well , of course , Brian Harley is doing the firm a hell of a lot of good with that magic putter of his ; and , yes , they have booked some extra space with us from July onwards and up to Christmas . ’ |