Example sentences of "[adj] to [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not say this to just anyone , it would not be correct to do so . |
| 2 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 3 | The British were left to act on their own in Jordan , although Washington did persuade Israel to permit the British to overfly its territory . |
| 4 | Every weekend during the summer from 2 to 5pm you can call into the Centre for afternoon tea and Welsh cakes , and perhaps buy a souvenir . |
| 5 | Moreover , they are assumed to be committed to different conceptions of the good and they think that they are entitled to press their claims on one another to further their separate aims . |
| 6 | Joe dare n't argue with them as he was afraid to therefore he made sure to Pip that he was on his side by adding gravy to his plate . |
| 7 | He was a member of the embassies to France in 1325–6 , 1331 and 1336 and he used his position as envoy and representative of Edward III to further his book-collecting activities . |
| 8 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
| 9 | His popularity with the royal brothers derived , indeed , from the fact that he was a devoted servant and affable companion who was content to further their wishes . |
| 10 | His sheer presence seemed to inspire a side threatened with relegation to Division Three to only their seventh away point of the season . |
| 11 | This is an extraordinary compliment , coming from Bill , who is systematically sceptical and rude to almost everyone . |
| 12 | She thought carefully for a few moments before she said , ‘ Silas — are n't you being unreasonable and somewhat unfair to both yourself and to Doreen ? ’ |
| 13 | So we 've got tan forty degrees equals opp over adjacent which is equal to well we do n't know opp so we 'll just leave it as opp over a hundred and twenty . |
| 14 | A participant is not obliged to provide currency for SDRs beyond the point at which its holdings of SDRs in excess of its net cumulative allocation are equal to twice its net cumulative allocation . |
| 15 | So if we got two , four , O multiplied by four , equal to so what it is nine sixty |
| 16 | Indeed a great deal of ordinary everyday conversation appears to consist of one individual commenting on something which is present to both him and his listener . |
| 17 | He says that all to often it 's the same people committing the crimes , theyaalso commit more while on bail . |
| 18 | Others , either purposely or accidentally , found the war useful to further their careers . |
| 19 | Others , either purposely or accidentally , found the war useful to further their careers . |
| 20 | If you were unwilling to forward my small gift , why did you send me the gentleman 's name and address ? |
| 21 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 22 | and were very happy with their computerised telephone , and decided that what Hallery House needed next was a front of house package which would be equally helpful to both themselves and their guests , and take the hard work out of record keeping and marketing . |
| 23 | Hence he reads educational books and journals , becomes involved in various professional activities and is concerned to further his own professional development through in-service work . |
| 24 | Information and promotion I have spoken to you about and the most important thing probably for the users besides us being able to promote what they 're doing for nothing and that is grants , so we are about to write and er you will be able to hotfoot it back to your clubs if they are already registered . |
| 25 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 26 | Erm Howard was Howard wrote and told me that erm he could n't get a he did n't think he would be able to so he wrote and told them early |
| 27 | Fundamental to both its difference and its inherent superiority , it seemed , was the principle of rationality . |
| 28 | But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters . |
| 29 | Er a hundred and eighty to now we 've gone up to about three seventy horsepower with turbocharger . |
| 30 | Their ability to thrive in these conditions is due to both their resistance to pollution and their rapid rate of growth , which far exceeds that of stony corals , and can be observed even in aquaria . |