Example sentences of "to [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 2 | The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it . |
| 3 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 4 | This would restrict you to rather few banks these days . |
| 5 | The filming , which resulted in an eight-minute segment took three days from 8am to 7pm each day and standing in fire gear in the freezing , draughty shell of a building is not Hollywood . |
| 6 | We serve light lunches , including dishes suitable for vegetarians , from noon to 2pm each day . |
| 7 | His best season so far came when he rode 28 winners , and with 22 to his credit already this term , he is on course to better that total . |
| 8 | They are interesting things to erect since one rushes round doing things to apparently little effect and then suddenly it 's all there . |
| 9 | A table-top sale will be held in the village hall from 10am to 1pm this Saturday . |
| 10 | One critic said that no man , perhaps , ever wrote so learnedly or so much , to so little purpose . |
| 11 | Whom should we therefore ban from public places for causing all the depression leading to so many suicides ? |
| 12 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 13 | Today 's chefs have very properly outlawed that preliminary blanching which spelled ruin to so many vegetables — of course there are still those such as celeriac and turnips which may need it — and one of their most fiercely held tenets concerns the brief cooking of fish , in particular of the fragile scallop . |
| 14 | This is due to so many processors running applications at the same time and the numerical methods used for rounding off figures . |
| 15 | Even the sight of the table , laid there before her , filled her with disgust , for it bore witness to so many foibles , so many fixed and rigid rules . |
| 16 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 17 | To me , as to so many others , David was a friend on whom I could rely . |
| 18 | I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it 's so rarely done . |
| 19 | Why should biblical scholarship , which is pertinent to so many lives , be thus immune to evolution and development ? |
| 20 | Rangers ' early season form has been less than inspiring but manager Walter Smith has put most of the team 's problems down to so many personnel changes caused by a succession of injuries . |
| 21 | This is no elaborate , townie 's re-creation , overburdened with fancy aesthetics , but a living , breathing original — a mixture of plants for use and beauty , like those that appealed to so many artists around the turn of the century . |
| 22 | Birds can be an inspiration , as they have been to so many artists and poets . |
| 23 | The words partial knitting do sound very technical to new knitters but if you are familiar with hand knitting you will discover that partial knitting is what hand knitters term ‘ knit to so many stitches , turn and knit back ’ , although , of course , doing it by machine takes a fraction of the time . |
| 24 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 25 | Having talked to so many sages , he was able to instruct Aristotle . |
| 26 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 27 | But I 've talked , as you know , to so many women , and sex seems to be a wholly other experience . |
| 28 | Janine Antoni gave a performance ( which took place on the opening night and can be viewed on video ) in which she immersed her hair in that inky mess familiar to so many women as hair-dye and proceeded to use her loaded as a floor mop , covering the surface of the gallery floor with the stuff . |
| 29 | Kine Weekly suggested that Vidor 's realistic and delightful presentation of ‘ the intimate domestic side of suburban married life ’ revealed ‘ his extraordinary knowledge of humanity ’ and this was the quality that appealed to so many critics . |
| 30 | This variety is another reason why Orcs and Goblins appeal to so many players , as the number of different troops types enables you to tailor an army to your own style of play or to a particular opponent . |