Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 2 | The task therefore observes the principal of human sense which Donaldson ( 1978 ) has so clearly brought to our attention . |
| 3 | Peking has so far agreed to only a quarter of legislators being directly elected by 1997 , and has condemned supporters of a full democracy . |
| 4 | Although Mr Major has said he wants the debate over Scotland 's future to be extended , he has so far refused to be drawn on the need for a referendum . |
| 5 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 6 | ‘ Although none of them , ’ he added , ‘ has so far proved to be a handicap . |
| 7 | ‘ I know , ’ Flavia went on , ‘ that people do n't like a divorce in their family , but when you think that his has so long ceased to be a real marriage You have n't seen them together , Michel and … |
| 8 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 9 | This function has long since passed to the Cabinet . |
| 10 | This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned . |
| 11 | Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher . |
| 12 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 13 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |
| 14 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 15 | It exists largely as a product of the institutions of higher education ( Sarsby 1984 : 132 ) and has only recently begun to surface in policy and practice . |
| 16 | It results from the attempt to provide relief from psychiatric illnesses and has only recently begun to be recognised . |
| 17 | The fund of music from Imperial Spain has only recently begun to be investigated with anything approaching seriousness , and the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas by Columbus has provided an additional focus to unearthing further treasures . |
| 18 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 19 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
| 20 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |
| 21 | But , like so many of his stablemates , he struggled to find his form in the early part of this term and has only recently returned to his best . |
| 22 | The Royal Family has thus judiciously assented to this and so has participated in the creation of its own image ; in the process , it has ensured that the monarchy , as an institution and as a symbol , retains a cultural past , present , and ( crucially ) future . |
| 23 | During the debate , a member who thinks that the original motion could be improved is at liberty to move an amendment , provided that he has not previously spoken to the motion . |
| 24 | Whichever way we look at these figures , whether we believe they represent a real increase in the rate of sexual violence or not , the decreasing conviction rate indicates that the state has not effectively responded to demands that sex crimes be treated more seriously . |
| 25 | We see that he has not simply yielded to the stronger of two pulls , as would be the case if , for example , he never overcame a fear of being uprooted which he judges cowardly , and ever after said to himself ‘ I ought to have gone ’ . |
| 26 | So far , many of the improvements they brought about have survived , and the fragmented bus industry has not yet led to a breakdown of the integrated ticketing that marked such a step forward in British practice . |
| 27 | The fact that this has not yet led to a fundamental delegitimisation of the state 's role has led some Marxists to develop a more sophisticated awareness of the divergent forces operating upon the growth of government . |
| 28 | That political will does not exist because public opinion has not yet begun to be aware of the scale of possible changes that governments will ask their publics to accept . |
| 29 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 30 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |