Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1856 he needed Britain too much to thwart her desires over the Black Sea Clauses of the Treaty and so he accepted them , hoping that it would still be possible eventually to bring about an entente with Russia . |
| 2 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
| 3 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 4 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 5 | Sane enough to cover up a murder ! |
| 6 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 7 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 8 | This usually requires quite a lot of practice but is invaluable once it has been mastered . |
| 9 | Where the groups are of similar social and economic level with no particular dislike for each other , the supplanting of one group by another usually involves only a minimum of friction . |
| 10 | This then becomes not a description of the object itself , but of the critical appreciation or dislike that the work gives rise to . |
| 11 | It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) . |
| 12 | You have been fortunate enough to build up a reserve of savings over the years , or you may find yourself in receipt of an inheritance . |
| 13 | It seems an appropriate enough reaction on watching someone struggle so much just to line up a ball . |
| 14 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 15 | ‘ There are n't any stones large enough to spell out a message with . |
| 16 | It flirts with the EEC and the European Free Trade Association , but membership of either still seems more a fantasy than a real option . |
| 17 | ‘ That probably explains quite a lot of it ! |
| 18 | They have telescope mirrors comparable in size to the one on the Hubble space telescope — but , one hopes , not afflicted by the Hubble mirror 's distortions — and produce images good enough to make out an object the size of a paperback book . |
| 19 | I do n't wonder whether it would be helpful just step back a bit and just look at the county council 's view as to how it should treat migration in the light of what the Secretary of State has approved on two occasions , when this issue has come up . |
| 20 | The 1970s also brought about a confrontation between two men : Trevino and Tony Jacklin . |
| 21 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 22 | The Labour party is now divided between reformers and abolitionists , the latter now numbering about a quarter of all Labour MPs . |
| 23 | All the same it is useful here to set up a paradigm of the profitability calculation against which to assess the prospects for investment planning , while accepting that there is considerable scope for variation in the actual calculations performed by particular enterprises . |
| 24 | Intruders frequently find the spare keys all neatly hanging on a keyboard : front door , back door , garage and car keys . |
| 25 | The latter grudgingly handed over a stash of notes . |
| 26 | A lone mercenary thinks he 's tough enough to take on a bunch of macho gun-toting enemy soldiers ( who are probably so 'ard they eat shredded wheat , box and all , for brekky ) . |
| 27 | It is important not to miss out a part of the invitation . |
| 28 | The teamwork was superfluous , because the pilot was dead before the second burst hit him , his plane was on fire before the third burst cut it apart , and the fourth simply knocked sideways a wreck which had only to fall to the ground . |
| 29 | It is important then to draw up a list of specific personal examples which create difficulties for the client . |
| 30 | That immediately excludes about a quarter of our youngsters on the dole , because they have never been trained . |