Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 . |
| 2 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 3 | Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects . |
| 4 | Consolidation is a pleasurable process : " What does all this add up to ? " |
| 5 | Whether all this adds up to Mr Winchester 's ‘ inchoate oneness ’ , scheduled to mature in a generation or so , is open to doubt . |
| 6 | ‘ Your daddy was terribly brave to stand up to them alone , ’ said Cheryl , in awe . |
| 7 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 8 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 9 | The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on … |
| 10 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 11 | And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday . |
| 12 | Variously ascribed to Andrea di Lione , Pietro Testa and Mattia Preti , it is a fascinating art-historical curiosity , that in my opinion is sufficiently unusual to hang on to a while longer . |
| 13 | But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems . |
| 14 | Together these add up to good badger country . |
| 15 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 16 | ’ We have learned things about the galaxy , ’ she replied grimly , ’ and we will be greatly glad to get back to our Ardakke . |
| 17 | People who are under medical direction to lose weight or quit smoking may likewise be quite rightly unwilling to give in to their impulses . |
| 18 | A young person officially comes of age at eighteen but , when so many go on to higher education and training after leaving school , even that does not mark the end of dependence on parents or state . |
| 19 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 20 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 22 | ‘ They take so long to get back to pupils , ’ was one comment . |
| 23 | In this subcloud region there is little solar uv radiation and the temperatures are fairly high , and therefore the molecules of H 2 SO 4 revert back to H 2 O and SO 2 . |
| 24 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 25 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 26 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 27 | On the other hand , he was extremely difficult to pin down to any conclusion . |
| 28 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 29 | But it is no less necessary to face up to its weaknesses as a comprehensive interpretation of the meaning of Christian belief . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's extremely nice to come back to Liverpool , ’ she says . |