Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help . |
| 2 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 3 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 4 | Oregon only provided Medicaid to those whose incomes were 58 per cent below the federal poverty line . |
| 5 | The value would therefore be displayed on the CAD screen , only if found to be out of range , leaving the designer free to design as he pleased , as long as it was within the range of acceptable values . |
| 6 | Bass players of the time were most unhappy about the situation , though ; their instrument , the double bass , was exceedingly bulky , very fragile and did not take at all well to the rigours of touring , especially if strapped to the roof of a car , as many were . |
| 7 | Although more representative of the whole unemployed population than the After Redundancy study , research on unemployment alone is insufficient to judge the specific impact of redundancy , especially on older workers — many of whom do not choose to declare themselves as unemployed , so register only while entitled to unemployment benefit — and the experience of economic insecurity following relatively secure employment . |
| 8 | Many people enter a meditative state without even realising it — perhaps while listening to music , jogging , walking in nature , gardening or sitting quietly . |
| 9 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 10 | Coleridge himself can not have failed to make the calculation that of four marriageable Fricker sisters , one was married to Robert Lovell , and another all but engaged to Southey . |
| 11 | Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab . |
| 12 | Compare the problems in Glen Nevis where in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt , to see the possible outcome . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll get you a paintbrush , ’ she muttered , all but taking to her heels in her haste to get away from those penetrating eyes . |
| 14 | The band finally reached the end of their last number and she all but leapt to her feet , switching on her brightest , falsest smile as she looked down at him . |
| 15 | To make matters worse , the Czech-Slovak clearing system has also all but ground to a halt and simple financial transactions between companies in the two the states are currently taking one to two months to complete , according to local businessmen . |
| 16 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 17 | Now that preparations had been completed for Artai 's enthronement there was very little to do , and the normal business of the court — administration , legislation , taxation — had all but come to a halt . |
| 18 | The recombinant protein was phosphorylated extremely inefficiently as compared to the c-Jun bZIP region ( the exposure time in Figure 1C is over 20-fold longer than in Figure 1B ) . |
| 19 | The discrepancy was believed to be due to the fact that a proportion of the PCBs evaporate naturally when exposed to air as part of the treatment process . |
| 20 | First , accept the reality of some risk in the placement of children in such schools and continue to work to determine just what is an acceptable minimum level of risk , especially as compared to not placing a child away from home . |
| 21 | In this context his concept of instinct , especially as applied to the sexual instincts , is useful . |
| 22 | It involved spasmodic attempts at boosting advanced teaching and research in science and other fields of " modern " study , especially as applied to industrial organization and technological development . |
| 23 | 1974 ) and of amino-acid dating , especially as applied to coasts of the USA ( Wehmiller , 1982 ) , has advanced knowledge and has allowed separation of sea level and tectonic components on rapidly uplifting coastlines . |
| 24 | Erm , for example , it appears that Freud and Bullett er , misinterpreted Wilson , especially as regards to the nature of his father . |
| 25 | Where mechanical clearance was undertaken , 200 mm of runoff and of soil were lost annually as compared to 48 mm of runoff and of soil wash where manual clearing , followed by mechanised tillage , were practised . |
| 26 | He 's put us down as posted to Belgium en route for Italy . ’ |
| 27 | It seemed an immensely important question , and not only when applied to Frankenstein . |
| 28 | Whether platelet endo-peroxides have a proaggregatory role in their own right or only when converted to thromboxane A 2 has been the subject of many studies ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | She watched , listened , learned and assessed , speaking only when spoken to in general — whilst all the while making her plans and looking to the future … |
| 30 | Speak only when spoken to . |