Example sentences of "to [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Jordanhill , his career trajectory took a different path to most when he decided to join the Colonial Education Service in what was then Northern Rhodesia , now Zambia . |
| 2 | In truth it drags along far to slowly and is never quite interesting or gripping enough in the right places despite the considerable efforts of the players . |
| 3 | 4 ) What back-up in terms of advice and maintenance is available e.g. if the microcomputer breaks down , can it be attended to locally or will there be a delay ? |
| 4 | They had also survived what was referred to locally as the ‘ Old Economic Policy ’ , or War Communism , which was universally disliked , even by the poorest . |
| 5 | disturbances of conventional word order , literal and metaphorical senses interwoven , periphrasis , ellipsis , leading notions alluded to rather than declared , abstractions personified , persons becoming abstractions , widely different words becoming synonyms , synonyms being given widely different meanings … |
| 6 | The Armenians were lucky , for they were the only people this century to flee to rather than from Lebanon for comfort and protection . |
| 7 | Intense , novel and variable stimuli are attended to rather than others , whilst regularly repeated stimuli seem to become ignored . |
| 8 | There may also be other costs if , for example , the qualification message adds to rather than reduces uncertainty or if the market misinterprets the message . |
| 9 | She observes , for example , that gender may affect language use in a given situation not just as a property of the speaker but also as a characteristic of the addressee ; the determining factor might be who is being spoken to rather than who is speaking . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 11 | Can the combination of both inward and outward investment be made complementary to rather than a substitute for domestic investment ? |
| 12 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 13 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
| 14 | VSAM uses a modified form of B-tree , so that the number of keys and pointers is the same , and index entries are greater than or equal to the keys pointed to rather than taking some intermediate value . |
| 15 | If his mind was too restless to maintain any hold on the spiritual , then did n't he have something far more immediate to face up to rather than to be wallowing in daily bouts of nostalgia ? |
| 16 | If an indicator of social deprivation is a substitute for mortality , then this means discarding the best available direct proxy for morbidity , which is after all what much of the NHS seeks to respond to rather than some ill defined concept of social deprivation . |
| 17 | A possible difficulty might be thought to arise when a proposition is obliquely referred to rather than explicitly stated . |
| 18 | Of course , if government spending were financed by an increase in the money supply , the curve would also shift to the right to and the interest rate increase might be avoided as the economy would move from to rather than from to . |
| 19 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 20 | All this suggests that the allowance system was a response to rather than a cause of the relief burden . |
| 21 | Because the county has to make a decision on the road closure so therefore it should go to rather than . |
| 22 | Most of the top sailors start here , so be careful who you position yourself next to since if they are fast they will soon take your wind . |
| 23 | This letter and such terms being referred to herein as ‘ this Agreement ’ . |
| 24 | if worst comes to worst and they do n't accept that |
| 25 | Lord Rees-Mogg , past chairman of the council , argued there was a case for putting the watershed back to 10pm or later , as in France and Germany . |
| 26 | ‘ wilfully and indecently ’ Means wilful as opposed to accidently or mistakenly and against normal standards of decency . |
| 27 | Criminals and other trouble-makers are referred to widely as ‘ gougers ’ : ‘ there are basically two types of people . |
| 28 | You get on and fly to somewhere that takes your fancy , the airline being quite willing to take the odd traveller with his rucsac . |
| 29 | Can your TARDIS take me to somewhere that has a fastline ? ’ |
| 30 | I 'll put these away , and I 'll have to somewhere that wo n't be a problem . |