Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure . |
| 2 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |
| 3 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 4 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 5 | And the principles underlying it , despite short-term political bargaining over boundaries , were relatively simple , too : to have major services , councils had to have populations large enough to sustain an efficient delivery system ; to have strategic planning functions , still larger bodies were needed , to reflect the need to attract technically adequate staff and to interest political leaders of a sufficiently high calibre . |
| 6 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 7 | Every Hellenistic hymn to Apollo came naturally to include an allusion to the god 's triumph over the Celts . |
| 8 | A student has to be versatile enough to evade an attack by stepping , hopping or jumping to the side , while slipping into another more advantageous position in order to counter-strike . |
| 9 | Here he obviously considered the pharmaceutical value of this plant important enough to include an illustration , and he felt the economic significance of Rubia tinctorum , madder , warranted an engraving by John Sebastian Miller , from Hortus Cliffortianus . |
| 10 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 11 | ‘ Ibrox , my party wishes merely to see an end to conflict . |
| 12 | The total student population of 90 000 helps greatly to preserve an element of life and change in a city where one quarter of the population is over 66 . |
| 13 | S1 and S2 The courses in S1 and S2 are designed , not only to stimulate an interest in and an enjoyment of the subject , but also to provide the pupils with a basic ‘ tool-kit ’ , necessary for further development . |
| 14 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 15 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |
| 16 | Leading lights in the EISA bus world have come together to agree an extension to the specification called EISA with Enhanced Master Burst Addendum , which defines enhancements compatible with existing EISA products that enable the input-output performance needed for emerging high-end server applications . |
| 17 | The implication of this report , that Sellafield was killing children , was serious enough to prompt an immediate government inquiry . |
| 18 | " The language of section 142(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925 seems to me wide enough to enable an action to be brought by [ D ] against [ L ] . |
| 19 | In Malaysia , a single tiger whisker ground up in the animal 's flesh or bone is thought to be powerful enough to kill an enemy . |
| 20 | As he knows the talks process brings together the two governments and the main constitutional parties in working together to find an accommodation , and I think that is right . |
| 21 | For example , as it is very time-consuming to produce a teaching unit , one approach would be only to accept an idea if it could produce a unit that ; ( i ) can be used by a wide range of teachers whose style of teaching varies a great deal ( ii ) can be of use to a wide age-range of pupils ( iii ) can be of use to a wide ability-range of pupils ( iv ) can encourage work on concepts as well as on content ( v ) may be of use in more than one subject discipline ( vi ) is suitable for demonstration mode with a large class ( vii ) is suitable for small groups or individuals to use ( viii ) can be used to produce further teaching materials ( ix ) can be used in teacher-training . |
| 22 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 23 | ABOVE The method of dating using tree-rings ( dendrochronology ) involves taking samples from timbers of different ages , and linking them together to provide an overall dating sequence . |
| 24 | When , however , a sentence " has time " to introduce the supernumerary information contained in a non-restrictive clause , but apparently fails to introduce the information on which the definite article relies , despite the definiteness being felt important enough to deserve an intensifier , then the sentence has a dislocated feel to it and the very is left dangling ; this is the case of sentence ( 23 ) . |
| 25 | She was mature enough to accept an olive branch , even if it was being handed out tongue in cheek . |
| 26 | Jennifer Owen argues convincingly that this amounts to a very significant area of habitat , she shows clearly and simply how it may be improved , and for the dedicated wildlife gardener she says enough to encourage an attempt at recording . |
| 27 | However , by 1981 , in the context of wider cultural and social movements to the right , the proponents of the older conception of English felt strong enough to launch an attack on the new pluralism be grounded firmly in the study of the " classics of English literature . " |
| 28 | Confronted by a more formal , corporate approach to the business , Laura retreated to the outer circle only to launch an attack on the inner circle . |
| 29 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 30 | Finally , should the local researcher be fortunate enough to find an original document which has not been transcribed , and which he can not read , then professional help will be needed . |