Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 2 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 3 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 4 | But where , on the one hand , the hierarchy of the chivalry is systematically catalogued , from dukes to mere gentlemen , the commonalty is differentiated only to the extent that a passing reference to ‘ the chief of theis folkes , as the substantiall marchauntes , the welthie grasiers and farmers ’ acknowledges the existence of sub-species . |
| 5 | At worst , food will be allowed develop only to the extent that it serves the needs of agriculture . |
| 6 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 7 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 8 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 9 | Tell her you know how she feels , but do n't give in to her demands , as she 'll soon latch on to the idea that throwing a tantrum gets her what she wants . |
| 10 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 11 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 12 | The turnpikes , though important in the history of roads , contributed little to the landscape that did not exist before . |
| 13 | The decline in England 's lineout fortunes , one would reiterate , owes most to the fact that , thanks to the mandatory gap , it is now so much easier to get in a jump against them . |
| 14 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton used as his studio and bedroom an airy ground-floor room with french windows opening on to a balcony that overlooked the large garden . |
| 15 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 16 | Kenny makes a similar point when arguing that we can talk of animal wants only to the extent that they are restricted to their conscious needs . |
| 17 | The recent row between Nissan and its British distributor owes much to the pressure that both have been under recently to break into the fleet market . |
| 18 | The historic importance of these routeways owes much to the fact that they connect the contrasting environments of Alpine , Mediterranean and continental Europe . |
| 19 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 20 | As he watched , the two men wandered over to the door that led through to the garden . |
| 21 | It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been . |
| 22 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 23 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 24 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 25 | It all added up to the fact that below Silas 's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others . |
| 26 | You 'll find that CompuAdd 's unmatched PC manufacturing capability , plus our strategic relationship with Microsoft adds up to an offer that 's unbeatable ! |
| 27 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 28 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 29 | Brian Tustian is one of the organic farmers who have responded enthusiastically to an arrangement that bypasses wholesalers and sells straight to the public . |
| 30 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |