Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Next , he took each hand in turn , and smeared the greasy oil between her fingers , and thence upwards to the slope of her shapely shoulders .
2 With the assistance of Dr Viv Edwards ( University of Reading ) , Dr Troyna will be synthesising the main results of these projects and assessing their contribution to current thinking on how educational systems might respond positively and most effectively to the demands of democratic multicultural societies .
3 At any rate , their bishoprics could not equal the territorial wealth , and so presumably to an extent the political influence , of some of their southern brethren .
4 At a later date , however , the fort was probably moved to lower ground and so closer to the site of the future town ; two pieces of cavalry equipment from the Bleachfield Road area plus a few Claudian coins and some slight remains of early timber-framed buildings , might be thought to support this view .
5 I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors .
6 And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY .
7 Would you really , and think carefully about this , trust all your personal information ; diary , telephone list and so on to the memory of that recalcitrant computer on your office desk ?
8 And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’
9 After the ceremony there was a reception at the bride 's home Malmesbury House , which is a most attractive house and so close to the Cathedral that guests could walk there easily .
10 The vehicle was parked on a yellow line and so close to the Market Street junction that vehicles emerging from that road had to swing out onto the wrong side of the High Street .
11 Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye .
12 It hardly seems sensible for a reporter doing his or her job properly to ignore a source so influential and so close to the seat of power .
13 Pound and Rebka exploited the contemporary discovery by Mössbauer that the linewidths of certain gamma emitters , in particular 57 Fe* , were exceptionally narrow and much closer to the resolution required to detect the gravitational red shift than for any other type of source .
14 Further work will show how a high count of intraepithelial lymphocytes relates to gamme delta intraepithelial lymphocytes counts , and whether these are merely sensitive indices of mucosal delayed type hypersensitivity expression , and all associated with production of IL2 and gamma interferon , or whether high density of intraepithelial lymphocytes , the unusual up regulation of IgM and/or gamma delta T cell numbers are independent factors , perhaps genetically determined , relevant to the induction of a state of aberrant immunity to gluten , and thus directly to the pathogenesis of coeliac disease .
15 The faculty is based mainly at the Medical School within the central area of the University and thus close to the centre of the city .
16 Relations between the two countries had been severely strained because of persistent allegations of support by the Solomons for the secessionist rebellion on the island of Bougainville which , although formally a part of Papua New Guinea , was geographically and ethnically closer to the Solomon Islands .
17 In July 1980 a dispute at the Lenin shipyards in the Baltic port of Gdansk led to the formation of an inter-strike committee and shortly afterwards to the establishment of Solidarity , the first ( and so far the last ) genuinely self-governing trade union that has ever existed in a communist-ruled country .
18 Once , when she caught Cissie with her head down , drying herself in the heat from the fire with her hair hanging over her eyes and dangerously close to the flames , her heart had turned somersaults .
19 Some , in particular France and Germany , would like to give preferential treatment to living artists ( and possibly also to the artists ' heirs ) when selling their own works .
20 But there are also maternal ailments attributable to the number of births , the ages at which women bear children and possibly also to the amount of time that elapses between births , presumably , among other things , because the reproductive pattern influences ability to meet demands that pregnancy and breastfeeding make upon the body .
21 Sexton quoted in Ranson ( 1990:115 ) argued that " it supposes that the wisdom of parents , separately and individually exercised , is more likely to achieve higher standards more quickly and more acceptably to the public than the collective wisdom of present bureaucrats , no matter how well-meaning those bureaucrats may be " .
22 But while these public performances continued to the general amusement of the audience , Joyce was dedicating himself more earnestly and more narrowly to the triumph of National Socialism in the world struggle .
23 It is to the Annales school , and more particularly to the assumptions governing their work , that I therefore turn , aiming to show how they have successfully applied the precepts of concessive holism to a wide range of subject , and in this way to suggest how the idea that holist explanations answer to a certain interest can be developed and defended .
24 These have implications for their approach to Information Management and more particularly to the management of electronic records .
25 Please pray that many viewers may be able to share in that worship and find it helpful and that some who would otherwise ‘ switch off ’ will be drawn in to the programme and more importantly to the Lord Himself .
26 A conveniently situated hotel , close to the fashionable shopping street P.C. Hoofstraat and the major museums and also close to the Leidseplein and Vondelpark .
27 These are protein molecules , which owe their specificity to their amino acid sequence , and hence ultimately to the genes .
28 I stayed where I was , shouting out orders and near enough to the postern gate if things should go wrong .
29 ‘ At the back of the neck , to the right of the fourth cervical vertebra ; the bullet passed through the trapezius of that side , grazed the body of the fourth vertebra and proceeded transversely and slightly upwards to the zygoma .
30 Drucker concluded about decision analysis that : ‘ A decision should always be made at lowest level and as close to the scene of action as possible …
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