Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally the agent should reduce bleeding sufficiently to allow the patient to undergo surgery without the need for blood transfusion and should obviate the risk of postoperative anaemia . |
| 2 | Insofar as the ‘ post ’ of postmodernism points to a lack , an emptying of a previous content , an absence of positive connotations to the present , then the term might do quite well to describe the current mood of dissatisfaction in Italian literary culture . |
| 3 | Long before an enemy could get near enough to distinguish any glint of arms , the whole company could fold their belongings and slip away into the mountains at their back . |
| 4 | Both branches would move steadily outwards to form the oceanic crust , which , as it got progressively further away from the ridge would rapidly acquire a thin veneer of deep sea sediments ( muds and clays , mixed up with myriads of tiny shells from planktonic organisms ) . |
| 5 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |
| 6 | Stavov supports Van Laue argues that the only way Russia might advance fast enough to avoid the disaster of inevitable global conflict was through a ‘ totalitarian planned economy ’ . |
| 7 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan also acknowledged that headhunters will try quite naturally to seduce good people away from such companies as his own ; but , he maintained , headhunters overall did a good job for him and he was not frightened that they might take his staff . |
| 8 | This system has inherent dangers , as forced rye-grass can grow too quickly to take up important minerals , particularly magnesium , and overdoses of some elements can lock up others in a form not available to plants . |
| 9 | In general , someone with food intolerance will respond to an elimination diet within a week , whereas someone with candidiasis may take much longer to respond to an anti- Candida diet — the response is also more gradual and less dramatic . |
| 10 | The Majority , whilst also favouring discipline for the poor , argued that voluntary workers would respond more flexibly to need than those limited by state regulations . |
| 11 | At parish level , individuals can work together either to safeguard the character of their local village , or to improve its appearance . |
| 12 | Assessment of how successful an event has been depends largely on feedback , and , if possible , the organisers should get together afterwards to hear comments and take note for future reference . |
| 13 | As we shall see in later sections , HARPY made sure , by structuring the grammar in particular ways , that a narrow portion would occur soon enough to prevent a combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 14 | Conceivably , the controls on litter and the promised crackdown on pollution will happen quickly enough to produce a political pay-off . |
| 15 | A learner who lacks confidence and competence will take much longer to implement care , and will also put the patient at risk . |
| 16 | This is the question in all markets : whether the cake as a whole will grow fast enough to keep London 's absolute volume of business growing . |
| 17 | It was a gamble , that the economy could grow fast enough to sustain the repayments . |
| 18 | The figures were released as Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor , warned that interest rates could climb even further to clamp down on rising prices . |
| 19 | My Lords , to those who er who have objected to erm a body of large numbers o o need to reduce it to sixteen er I would say that those on the er my Noble Friends on the front bench would do very well to give their attention to the possibility of reducing the number of the cabinet er to sixteen er er er I w er forebear from making er detailed suggestions |
| 20 | This type of competition may take much longer to judge as the judges will have to look at all the entries . |
| 21 | ‘ Forty-four per cent of the appointees are women — a very high figure for such posts — and their success should encourage even more to come forward for future appointments . ’ |
| 22 | If stars could shrink to as small as ten or twenty miles across to become neutron stars , one might expect that other stars could shrink even further to become black holes . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this is a problem which faces both kites er and ospreys and , and some other birds of prey , so er we always look for a few losses , but we hope that nevertheless , in a good season like this , the birds will breed well enough to produce good numbers of young . |
| 24 | But the borehole must go deep enough to reach the aquifer , even if this means drilling far below the potentiometric surface . |
| 25 | The parish council is very worried when the controversial barrier opens later this year problems in the village , already vulnerable to flooding , will increase as the water turned away from the shut gates will have nowhere else to go . |
| 26 | If everyone in the developed world made energy efficiency a priority in all parts of their lives , the carbon dioxide we add to the atmosphere could drop quickly enough to make a real difference to global warming . |
| 27 | They had listened meekly , shamed by his anger and , like children , trying to think of ways to please him ; but once he had left the billiard room he knew that the feuds would start once more to germinate . |
| 28 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |