Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 2 | The prime object of the society was to secure the adoption of the continental , or Leibnizian , notation for the calculus , in preference to the Newtonian notation then used in England , and thereby to open English mathematics to the eighteenth-century continental developments . |
| 3 | Petty 's main contribution was to modify the Agitators ' and Levellers ' position on the parliamentary franchise , and thereby to make possible a compromise with the army grandees and their independent allies in Parliament on that issue . |
| 4 | Its main purpose was to give legitimacy to the nine-year-old Crown Prince and thereby to prevent other claims to the Bhutanese throne . |
| 5 | One of the advantages of this approach , or so it is claimed , is that it enables governments to pursue policies based upon consent and voluntary cooperation and thereby to avoid both the ‘ law of the jungle ’ ( monetarism ) and the ‘ jungle of the law ’ ( statutory incomes policies ) . |
| 6 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 7 | ESRC support will make it possible to test theories systematically and rigorously to answer such questions as : To what extent do differences in national cultures and tradition in Central and Eastern Europe cause different responses in post-Communist societies ? |
| 8 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 10 | Addictive use of any substance or behaviour is seen when the individual uses it in appropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions Or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood rather than simply using it for its own sake . |
| 11 | As with other addictions , compulsive gambling and risk taking are seen when the sufferer is compelled to return despite repeated and increasing negative consequences and when the processes is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood . |
| 12 | When an individual returns to making the same type of relationship again and again despite repeated and increasing negative consequences or uses it inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood . |
| 13 | Yes , any behaviour that is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions , or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood , or to which someone repeatedly returns despite negative consequences , can be a form of addictive disease . |
| 14 | Other states now plan , despite federal disapproval , to introduce SW transmission and so to broadcast longer distances . |
| 15 | Skilled teachers of drama give pupils the tools of the trade , encouraging them to become more autonomous in their handling of the dramatic medium and so to take greater responsibility for their own learning . |
| 16 | The de facto right to take wild deer would become to right to participate in an LDMT , and so to take wild deer . |
| 17 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 18 | We may be able to determine the number of atoms in a group , and so to distinguish MX 2 from MX 3 groups . |
| 19 | They allow you to imply things without saying them directly , and so to develop complex arguments in relatively short passages of writing . |
| 20 | The messengers are instructed to tell Esau of Jacob 's many possessions , and so to make clear that by ‘ favour ’ Jacob does not mean material support . |
| 21 | It is also a straightforward matter to create new words — and so to frame new concepts — by the use of prefixes , suffixes , etc , a quality sanctioned rather than frowned upon by the Sanskrit grammarians . |
| 22 | They imply that it is psychologically or biologically natural to recognize and perhaps to rank these differences . |
| 23 | Her eyes slipped across and down to glimpse any words not covered by her fingers spread over the top page : ‘ hours ’ , ‘ be with you ’ , ‘ your name ’ , ‘ love ’ , ‘ last night ’ . |
| 24 | Holograms are 3 dimensional images of scenes and events , enabling the viewer to look around from side to side , up and down to see different areas of the subject . |
| 25 | He stood alone in the corner of the yard feeling more than a little stupid as he stamped up and down to keep warm . |
| 26 | At the moment nuclear power stations ca n't be turned up and down to meet fluctuations and demand , and the fluctuation from the morning and afternoon peak demand to the middle of the night trough in demand is at least a factor of two to one , but nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down to match that . |
| 27 | It is narrow with passing places ; it winds in and out and up and down to circumvent natural obstacles , and progress is slow by main road standards . |
| 28 | One way of achieving this is for MAS to hold all copies of the Information Memoranda and only to despatch these once the intermediary has returned a confidentiality undertaking to us . |
| 29 | Since there is little potential for the development of new recreation sites in the Shing Mun Country Park , Jim suggests that a management strategy designed to make the distribution of visitors between sites more equable would be appropriate to minimise damage and especially to protect those sites which are currently undergoing excessive damage . |
| 30 | The government has been criticized for not making enough effort during the period of high copper prices to diversify Zambia 's economic base , and especially to encourage agricultural development . |