Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 2 | There would then follow a quantity of directives relating most especially to handicrafts — knitting , crocheting , macramé — skills Fru Møller had studiously avoided , let alone perfected . |
| 3 | This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance . |
| 4 | The same applies to many other churchmen of the age , in England most obviously to Bishop Ethelwold of Winchester . |
| 5 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 6 | She knew now , consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott . |
| 7 | This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands . |
| 8 | He then settled in California , where despite occasional returns to the theatre ( notably in the first production of Bertolt Brecht 's The Life of Galileo in 1947 , which he also adapted ) he focused mainly on such films as Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ) , Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ) , Spartacus ( 1960 ) , and Advise and Consent ( 1962 ) , returning only rarely to Britain and only notably for David Lean 's Hobson 's Choice in 1954 . |
| 9 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 10 | So onward to Week 3 . |
| 11 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 12 | But perhaps only to Preston . |
| 13 | The man stayed under the cow long enough to milk three , at times saying something angrily to himself . |
| 14 | Adult males retain a pride only long enough to father one batch of young females for the pride . |
| 15 | So Much to Read , So Little to Understand |
| 16 | Lewis responded so warmly to Tolkien 's imagined world because , as he wrote to Arthur Greeves , ‘ he is , in one part of him , what we were . ’ |
| 17 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |
| 18 | It is highly addictive , comparably so to heroin or cocaine according to the US Surgeon General , and the health risks are long-term ones , so that starting is easier and quitting is more difficult . |
| 19 | Popular , so better to book you table . |
| 20 | Impartiality can be irritating to viewers as well as to governments — though much less so to viewers . |
| 21 | If you have a Caribbean or African background you may be susceptible to high blood pressure and to diabetes , but less so to heart disease . |
| 22 | It 's easy to sway the emotions by showing monkeys with their brains cut open , genetically stunted pigs or smoking beagles , less so to drag on someone suffering from a vile disease and say ‘ this person will die unless we keep on chopping up small furry creatures . ’ |
| 23 | What I found amazing , to the extent of keeping me occupied combating fluoridation during the past 20 years on a more-than full-time basis , was that the sales promotion experts employed to build the fluoridation bandwagon have been able for so long to lull most scientists and politicians into accepting this method of diluting and dumping waste fluorides at public expense . |
| 24 | The case of Caroline is instructive — gloomily so to Flaubert . |
| 25 | And nothing condemned a woman so swiftly to womanhood as grappling with a man . |
| 26 | SESSION 30 watt , 2 channel amp , loud enough to gig , footswitch , cover , as new , £80 . |
| 27 | She heard nothing of the gossip exchanged at the laundry that morning , and answered only absently to pieces of news she was given . |
| 28 | He gripped her upper arms , his fingers pressing cruelly into her tender flesh as he shoved her none too gently away to arm 's length . |
| 29 | Its core is the sense of rejection of the most private and intimate parts of themselves , because that is what women in love offer so generously to men . |
| 30 | ‘ If we were in funds , I 'd never leave so soon to Christmas unless there was a disaster somewhere . |