Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cold half-light the rock looked stark and forbidding ; as we cruised slowly to leeward the most appalling stench drifted down wind . |
| 2 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 3 | A series of short pitches , to avoid rope drag , zigzagged upwards to below a huge overhang , where a traverse left teetered to a safe , sunless stance overlooking the north face . |
| 4 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 5 | Finally this procedure calculates empirical corrections to be applied later to both the subject and the reference measures and these are saved in the record savedValues . |
| 6 | But in riding , quietness , and general environment , Mark 3 coaches gliding through the countryside at speed owe little to even a decade ago . |
| 7 | A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more . |
| 8 | The poorest households suffered the most , and this led temporarily to both a levelling and an aggregate move downwards in Volga peasant society . |
| 9 | Their behaviour patterns can also be extremely individual , so that two autistic children with exactly the same characteristics may react differently to exactly the same situation . |
| 10 | I opened my eyes and realised the barge had only half-turned and we were now running parallel to both the island and the shore . |
| 11 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Communist Party , driven by the furious pace of events , brought forward to tomorrow a crucial party congress to debate its future . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Communist Party , driven by the furious pace of events , brought forward to tomorrow a crucial party congress to debate its future . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the Communist Party , driven by the furious pace of events , brought forward to tomorrow a crucial party congress to debate its future . |
| 15 | A postal survey of genitourinary medicine clinics in 1988 showed that a third offered hepatitis B vaccine to clinic attenders , and a recent audit report from a London genitourinary medicine clinic estimated that vaccine was delivered successfully to only a quarter of susceptible new homosexual patients . |
| 16 | The crack is straightforward and I move right to below the overhang . |
| 17 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 18 | This experience generally contributes significantly to both the student 's personal development and to his/her understanding of the subject and its applications . |