Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I had to drive somewhere . ’
2 The PROFITBOSS pro-acts his way to profit rather than reacting to potential loss .
3 He cautioned museums not to embrace wholly mass media which ‘ simplify and cheapen ’ the experience of art , and declared the museum 's main purpose is not preservation , but ‘ cultivation of the human spirit ’ .
4 This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) .
5 To be sure , his companions needed to know enough about him and his goals to perform effectively , but Malleus policy on the subject of Chaos and its minions was one of censorship .
6 In one case the opinion was expressed that the foreign affairs powers of the President are extra-constitutional , resting upon the international sovereign status of the United States and the necessity for that country to be able to perform effectively in foreign relations , uninhibited by domestic legal restrictions .
7 When presented with adequate messages , even though they may contain only the minimal information necessary to locate the target , young children are capable of the necessary perceptual discrimination and message decoding to perform effectively as listeners .
8 There not offices best calculated to enable us to perform effectively .
9 Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ?
10 By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy .
11 The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense .
12 In fact the Governments " minute of appointment " in 1961 set as the Committee 's terms of reference to report on and review the pattern of full-time higher education in Britain " in the light of national needs and resources " .
13 to re to report on , er in all course work to take five percent of our
14 And I 've nothing adverse to report on either the buses or the trains .
15 And I 've nothing to report on either the trains or the buses .
16 And I 've no problems to report on either or trains .
17 Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes .
18 Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes .
19 Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically .
20 Anyway so and then of course Oh that was another thing , I said to him , No you 'll want to sit somewhere you 'll want I do n't want a desk in there , I 'm not having my desk in there .
21 Oh why is it every time I sit somewhere he 's always got to sit somewhere near me .
22 All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste .
23 He tried to breathe slowly , calming himself as he waited .
24 His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself .
25 When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together .
26 The weather , the rest of today 's likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time .
27 The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time .
28 The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time .
29 The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time .
30 And , unfortunately , the situation is likely to remain rather explosive and uncertain until the full Moon in Libra on 10 April brings to light all the information you require to force a showdown .
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