Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 2 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 3 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 4 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 5 | He had men in Paris , Berlin , Rome , Belfast and elsewhere to search out the merchandise needed to satisfy the voracious appetite of the Chicago store and , by 1875 , was dispatching three-million-dollars worth of goods each year across the Atlantic . |
| 6 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 7 | And just to put together a way that you can change it from a feature into a benefit , using either of those ways . |
| 8 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 9 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 10 | They are happy to suspend disbelief for the season of goodwill and lustily to bawl out the carols with beery breath and watch dewy-eyed as the little ones do their stuff . |
| 11 | The Communists ' blatant use of the RPC to influence and later to break up the ILP naturally worsened relations between the ILP leaders and the Communists . |
| 12 | In one data disk on the First World War , for instance , pupils were able to access an official report of an attack , an entry in a private diary and also to see how a newspaper reported the incident . |
| 13 | The trend towards tighter state budgets could be exploited to reduce the number of students in some over populated subjects and also to cut back the resources of non-productive researchers . |
| 14 | However , we will shortly use an economic rationality argument to rule out divergence in ( 6.9 ) and hence to rule out an infinite share price . |
| 15 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 16 | It will be helpful to consider a typical general example , and then to illustrate how a balance between these two considerations can be achieved . |
| 17 | Rose helped Maggie to write away for the forms and then to fill in the forms when they came . |
| 18 | It took just over an hour to empty Wavebreaker of her garbage and dirty linen , and then to hook up the shoreside electricity and pump diesel and fresh water into her tanks . |
| 19 | The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’ |
| 20 | She was the last person living to speak the language of the native islanders , so it was a pity that she could no longer use her tongue , except now and then to rasp out a harsh fragment of a song . |
| 21 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 22 | The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system . |
| 23 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 24 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 25 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 26 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 27 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 28 | ‘ Some may find it easier and quicker to give out a simple number rather than spend time asking about diet and so on . ’ |
| 29 | But nowadays it tries hard and gracefully to live down the ferocities of its past . |
| 30 | And occasionally to bring back a bride . |