Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 2 | Between four and eight sectors will be flown , but occasionally either more or less according to season . |
| 3 | ARE non-American jazz players more or less doomed to imitation ? |
| 4 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 5 | I used to have to go to the toilet if I thought I was going to fight anyone , or just go to bed and close my eyes and think , ‘ Not long , not long , not long to go ’ , to keep myself down there . |
| 6 | Dr Peter Fleming , who has done research in Bristol , said overheating due to environmental temperature , over-insulation or both contributed to cot death . |
| 7 | On the contrary it seems to be that , as the respective numbers become closer together , or even tend to overbalance in the opposite direction , alienation is bound to progress . |
| 8 | However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament . |
| 9 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 10 | Tutors were offered little or no training , or even access to fulltime employment , not to mention a career structure . |
| 11 | As a result , the wider human habitat , far from being humanised and ennobled by man 's agricultural activities , becomes standardised to dreariness or even degraded to ugliness ’ . |
| 12 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 13 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 14 | Since West German parties and voters have deep respect for professional competence , lists may include also experts not distinguished for party , activity or well suited to constituency campaigning . |
| 15 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 16 | The columnist Westbrook Pegler must have approved that passage , for he wrote : ‘ The only sensible way to deal with them is to make membership in Communist organizations a capital offence and shoot or otherwise put to death all persons convicted of such . ’ |
| 17 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 18 | Other ideas seem to operate on the mind with great force , but they are not conscious , nor readily recalled to consciousness ; they are unconscious . |
| 19 | The injection of lava along mid-oceanic ridges , for instance , could push the adjacent plates apart and thereby contribute to plate motion ( Fig. 2.17(D) ) . |
| 20 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 21 | The institutional church , preoccupied with orthodoxy and fundamentally opposed to Marxism because it is viewed as materialistic and atheistic , is made up of bishops , priests , laity and religious movements who , though not very numerous , are powerful , partly because the laity of the group belong to the wealthier classes . |
| 22 | If he did not touch such heights again , he remained a thoroughly reliable keeper right to the end , small , neat and quiet , and rarely given to histrionics . |
| 23 | She had been very ill and suddenly taken to hospital without Darren 's knowing why . |
| 24 | The peasant economy provides a reserve of cheap labour for capitalism and so contributes to capital accumulation . |
| 25 | The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league . |
| 26 | Bahrain station was not informed of their approach and so failed to light-up , and the moon has already set , so the pilot of Horsa overshot . |
| 27 | Once such an island has become permanent , longshore drift takes place along the seaward side , and so leads to modification and complication of the initially simple form . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that such weaknesses impede proper continuity and progression and so lead to underachievement . |
| 29 | This situation would be one humdinger of a funny story to tell his city friends over a drink or two — and perhaps to boast to Corosini that he 'd wrapped her around his little finger with a few husky phrases and a glimpse of his superlative body . |
| 30 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |