Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 2 | Like all analogies , this one can mislead as well as help , but if we do feel that a reasonable case is being presented to us , and that the internal evidence of the research fits together coherently and comes to a result which is ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ then we may be prepared to accept this piece of research , based though it is on informal interviews . |
| 3 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of these prisoners were arrogant and felt proud to die for their cause ; others were less so and resigned to their fate . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Later , as we focused in on where the changes occurred , we were able to subdivide much further and according to more meaningful anatomical criteria . |
| 7 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |
| 8 | On the application of both defendants Wright J. set aside the order in so far as related to such disclosure on the ground that it infringed their privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 9 | In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned . |
| 10 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 11 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 12 | The procedure at the hearing is determined by the tribunal within the framework of the statutory rules which provide that the tribunal shall ‘ so far as appears to it appropriate seek to avoid formality ’ . |
| 13 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 14 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 15 | In June 1960 he went so far as to write to Ashby himself — by then Sir Eric and the Master of Clare College , Cambridge — setting out the case and asking whether he would make personal representations to the Minister to secure unilateral treatment for the Eastern District . |
| 16 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 17 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 18 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |
| 19 | C. Jun residues 1-193 are phosphorylated inefficiently even when tethered to DNA through a heterologous DNA binding domain . |
| 20 | It can come much earlier and lead to physical and mental disability . |
| 21 | Heavy clay is made up chiefly of tiny soil particles which bind together tightly and cling to the water around them , making the clay sticky and difficult to work . |
| 22 | So again that comes to a hundred point six nine . |
| 23 | You may say the Americans were wonderful with their ambulances but they did n't pay for the dairy and half the animals were dead already or had to be slaughtered . |
| 24 | She turned away now and walked to the fire , and there , looking at it , she stood with her hands joined below her waist like a penitent child and said , ‘ I spoilt my life and those of others about me , especially my husband 's . |
| 25 | When not in use they my be tidied away forward and secured to the shroud anchorages . |
| 26 | Despite a wrecked car , Wilcox actually won that race , as it was stopped shortly afterwards and awarded to him on count-back . |
| 27 | The opposite defence is to sit dead still and try to be invisible . |
| 28 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 29 | Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance . |
| 30 | However , the greater solar input at the equator than at the poles would produce greater solar choking at the equator , and this can be shown to aid equator to pole circulation in the Jovian interior , thus distributing solar energy more uniformly and leading to the small equator to pole temperature differences observed in the upper troposphere . |