Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Renacena is the most widely listened to station in Portugal . |
| 2 | The easy-come , easy-go attitude most obviously applies to Nic Dalton , still introverted but a bit more cheerful this morning . |
| 3 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 4 | Well I mean all , all I know in that at the moment is that I , I 'd I would be most naturally drawn to youth , I would have thought . |
| 5 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 6 | Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters . |
| 7 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 8 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 9 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 10 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough-born , though long since moved to Billingham , he began refereeing in 1944 aboard HMS Nelson . |
| 12 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 13 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
| 14 | His former general , Lord George Murray , after a final reproachful letter to the Prince , had long since fled to Holland to end his days in exile , and most of Charles 's other leading supporters had by now either escaped abroad or been rounded up . |
| 15 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 16 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 17 | Zinc ( 13 µM ) in gastric juice has not been measured previously , but most zinc is only weakly bound to albumin in plasma and this probably explains why the zinc concentrations in gastric juice are higher relative to copper . |
| 18 | These sorts of childhood problems are only weakly linked to adult schizophrenia and alcoholism , and completely unrelated to manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis . |
| 19 | The parallel approaches of petrology ( or thin-section petrography ) and chemical analysis , which have been so successfully applied to ceramics . |
| 20 | Were he not so useful and entertaining on his main subject , Boswell might easily call all his facts into question by such a blatant lie , so blatantly told to curry Establishment favour in London . |
| 21 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 22 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 23 | He was , it seems , interested in the prolongation of life ; but the picture of the sheer gloom of human existence expressed in " De Contemptu " — which apparently so appealed to contemporaries — does little to enthral the modern reader . |
| 24 | " With his characteristic forthrightness — perhaps better adapted to engineering projects than affairs of the heart — he started his investigations " wrote his son later . |
| 25 | Both the American and British missile programmes owed much to German wartime work on their V-1s and V-2s , which did so much damage to London , Antwerp and Paris during the closing stages of the Second World War . |
| 26 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 27 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 28 | The ribbon could be fed into a casting machine in another part of the building , where it cast single characters , producing a quality of type much better suited to bookwork than was a Linotype slug . |
| 29 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 30 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |