Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Bigger country , not one tight little prejudiced clapped out topheavy society , less breathing down one 's neck .
2 Improved diet would have reduced death rates primarily because well fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease .
3 Vermuyden had faced remarkable difficulties , not least the age-old problem of clients who want the profit at the end of the day , but who are not prepared to lay out sufficient capital to achieve it .
4 At the moment , this particular function is restricted to still images — the horsepower is not available to carry out fractal enhancement on the fly , says the company .
5 It was not necessary to break up large collective and state farms ( as was already happening in parts of Georgia and the Ukraine ) to give peasants more incentive ; they could form associations or joint-stock companies or leaseholders .
6 Speaking after a meeting with EC Finance Ministers in Luxembourg he envisaged that a smaller number of countries with low inflation ( France , West Germany , Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg ) would enter a European central banking system and that others who had not reached the same degree of economic convergence , or were not ready to give up sufficient sovereignty rights , would be invited to enter later .
7 It seems that these obligations were found more likely to stir up serious friction within families than to rally family help .
8 But the strategy of working alongside is more likely to bring about significant change in professional thinking and classroom practice , because the partners have no alternative but to confront questions of planning and organization , and hence to explore each other 's ideas .
9 Even when children care desperately for their elderly parents and have to put them in a home because of lack of personal resources , they are not always able to keep up regular contact because of moving to find employment .
10 It is also important to carry out regular water changes — do n't forget to make adjustments with additional salt .
11 The British regarded it as essential to win over Arab opinion by promising postwar independence for Syria and Lebanon ; de Gaulle regarded this as British colonialist meddling in French affairs , and when the British tried to issue a declaration promising independence in their own name as well as Free France 's , he objected that the future of French mandates was none of Britain 's business .
12 On the motorway the Safrane rides excellently and is well able to flatten out long amplitude undulation while being equally successful at suppressing smaller bumps , such as expansion joints .
13 But malaria was only regionally important and the drug too expensive to give in sufficient dosage ( McKeown and Brown 1955 , Hobhouse 1985 ) .
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