Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blues veterans Jimmie Rodgers and Otis Rush both created their own blues magic and surprise guest Buddy Guy stunned the audience with some of his best and most fiery playing to date . |
| 2 | The legislation regarding rabbits is extremely different according to whether the rabbit is in a laboratory , is a pet , is being kept for meat or is wild . |
| 3 | " No , I suppose not , " He was only half listening to the bookseller . |
| 4 | She hurried her drink , anxious to get away and only half listening to what he was saying . |
| 5 | She went on typing , only half listening to Rob 's grumbles , until he said suddenly , ‘ Have lunch with me , Merrill ? ’ |
| 6 | Lucy was only half listening to their conversation , the main thought in her own mind being that Stella would be home today . |
| 7 | Johnston and Pattie ( 1988 ) claim that people no longer vote so much according to their class , or social , position , but rather are increasingly referrent to their spatial location . |
| 8 | We 're not so much looking to Wembley . |
| 9 | There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set . |
| 10 | As the duties were light and rapidly becoming merely nominal owing to the continued refusal of the war to start , Charles fetched Clarissa from her theatre nearly every night to take her dancing at one famous rendezvous or another . |
| 11 | Man , naturally slothful according to Malthus , only spread into more adverse climes thanks to the local scarcities of food entailed by his excess fertility ; with later settlers always eventually victorious because made doubly energetic in struggling with both rigorous conditions and previous settlers . |
| 12 | It 's so irritating having to constantly stop and put your kagoul on , and then stop 40 seconds later to take it off again . |
| 13 | The reports produced to date are internal documents , and only those referring to botany need be mentioned here . |
| 14 | Given this to be so , under the influence of the new analyses ( of poverty and of the youth labour-market ) , it was appreciated that the critical features of the youth question were not only those relating to church attendance , unorganized leisure , absence of esprit de corps and , at the extreme end of the spectrum of anxiety , juvenile delinquency . |
| 15 | Now the director — like most people in East Germany — is so busy adapting to the transition to a market economy and to the West German Deutsch Mark than none of his undertakings has been honoured . |
| 16 | The function for English preferred by the Committee , then , is one of aligning the popular imagination and culture , ( what is elsewhere called the " public mind " ( see p.46 ) ) with a sense of communal identity having sufficient " sanity " to neutralize not only " the hostility towards " the culture of capitalism " now prevalent in Bolshevist Russia " , but indeed that antagonism and contempt for literature which is said to be found among " the working classes , especially those belonging to organised labour movements " . |
| 17 | Reports in the Guardian and the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 23 claimed , however , that Saudi Arabia was eager to prevent Iraqi Shia Moslems based in Iran , especially those belonging to the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq ( SAIRI ) under Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , from gaining influence amongst Iraqis . |
| 18 | Most evolutionary propositions , especially those referring to historical derivations , are not directly testable , however precisely one may attempt to erect alternative hypotheses for testing . |
| 19 | Since remote sensing data sets ( especially those pertaining to terrestrial areas of the globe ) typically need much pre-processing to calibrate , transform and then perform an inference process and hence convert measurements of the radiation reflected or emitted by small areas of ground into useful ( e.g. land cover ) data , the processing power required is going to be formidable . |
| 20 | This will be followed up by the second phase of interviews and observation work to explore further some main ideas more closely important factors in women 's health decision-making , especially those contributing to low rates of utilisation of services such as screening . |
| 21 | These events — especially those relating to international finance — had a major impact on the approach to economic planning . |
| 22 | Many of the claims of the developing world , especially those relating to the establishment of a new international economic order , fall into the category of articulation of needs for economic development . |
| 23 | Literary sources may be even more valuable , especially those relating to people like the Romans who held pearls in exceptionally high regard . |
| 24 | Issues of consistency of approach also arise in the choice and construction of indicators , especially those relating to deprivation . |
| 25 | I had spent , and indeed continued to spend , many hours trying to persuade the blind to see , or in other words to convince rich men of the virtue of causes close to my own heart , especially those relating to the arts . |
| 26 | The other applications , especially those relating to work carried out in offices will be considered in the remaining paragraphs . ’ |
| 27 | Staff will probably move to different positions in the company and will ultimately leave for any of a number of reasons Information about such movements is particularly important in the assessment of personnel policies especially those relating to recruitment , training and deployment . |
| 28 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 29 | Senator David L. Boren , the committee 's chairman , said that the delay would give the panel time to examine the " flurry of allegations " concerning Gates , especially those relating to the Iran-contra affair . |
| 30 | Monitoring of planning applications in all the Regions of Scotland , especially those relating to roads , transport , parking etc , and putting in amendments and objections where needed ; |