Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 2 | Populations of this species showed vigorous vegetative growth , and most new rosettes recruited to the population appeared as ramets ( clonal replicates ) from existing rosettes . |
| 3 | I could not help thinking , when he criticised us for not participating in European Community efforts on education , that here was the last and most remarkable convert come to the communautaire viewpoint on these matters . |
| 4 | Many of the greatest and most rewarding performances belong to the analogue stereo LP era , and these records can offer an illusion of realism to compare with almost anything achieved more recently … |
| 5 | It connotes the discovery of the world by the first and most direct way open to us , and the discovery of ourselves in our native environment . |
| 6 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 7 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 8 | It is likely that further research will reveal more examples , and so close attention needs to be paid to the earlier certain boundaries of any territories and estates in the area under study . |
| 9 | Usually they were not things she herself wanted and so two meals had to be arranged . |
| 10 | For example , shareholdings divided in the proportion of 66% and 34% were found to constitute joint control , as a 34% shareholding represented a minority blocking vote and so important decisions had to be taken with the consent of this minority shareholder . |
| 11 | The third and perhaps chief problem related to general degrees is their status , which tends to be lower in the eyes of academics , and perhaps employers , than their academic or professional counterparts . |
| 12 | This done , the Yard 's largest , most successful and only bearded detective retired to a tiny room at the Blagrave Arms . |
| 13 | The downside to registering might be that you get unsolicited mail every so often , but that practice seems to be on the decrease , and only genuine upgrades seem to be notified . |
| 14 | Very frequently the signals from large farmers and highly productive areas lead to competition for resources with those from small farmers and relatively unproductive areas . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the strength of these aluminous porcelains was only sufficient to allow the system to be used at the front of the mouth and less aesthetic materials had to be used for molar teeth . |
| 16 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 17 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 18 | As an avid reader of Hot Press and several other music mags , I recently decided that I was spending too much time reading about music and not enough time listening to the stuff . |
| 19 | In a host of minor races , younger and mildly reformist Democrats came to the fore . |
| 20 | The larger and usually long-tailed ones tend to be called pheasants ( pp. 107–109 ) , the medium-sized ones partridges or francolins ( pp. 103105 ) and the small ones quails ( p. 105 ) . |
| 21 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 22 | But they 're not the only ones , by the way , I 'm also concerned about the fact that more and more young people seem to be in this syndrome and I 've a feeling that that comes down not just to government things , but also to the problems in the family as a whole . |
| 23 | The situation changed steadily during the 1950s as more and more black men came to high office , and naturally the West Indian people could see no reason why the same should not happen on the cricket field . |
| 24 | The new and more powerful roles offered to women in the world of work may diminish their powerlessness before men and change the way working couples relate . |
| 25 | Later , when the development of ferro-alloys made new minerals necessary , tungsten , chrome , manganese and bauxite could be found in Europe , although more and more rare metals had to be imported . |
| 26 | In particular , the massive increase in car ownership from about 10 per cent in the early 1950s , to about 58 per cent of all urban households and around 70 per cent of rural households in 1982 ( Phillips and Williams , 1984 ) has let more and more rural people travel to a greater range of destinations at their own time and convenience . |
| 27 | This corresponds more to economic arithmetic than to economic analysis , and more sophisticated approaches look to evaluation by reference to the tools developed in chapter 6 on cost-benefit analysis . |
| 28 | When Heidrick and Struggles had difficulties worldwide in the early 1980s there were many defections , both of individuals starting up their own businesses ( principally in the USA ) , and also key performers defecting to other international search firms . |
| 29 | Small to medium ground-living birds , mostly with sober plumage , sexes alike , and moderately thin bills adapted to both an insect and a seed diet . |
| 30 | Rebecca West referred in 1913 to health visitors as an ‘ inadequate and slightly offensive substitute offered to the poor woman for the skilled service the rich can command ’ . |