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

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1 If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal .
2 It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place .
3 Even so it may be that regarding each individual , he is less likely successfully to follow right reasons which apply to him anyway if left to himself than if he always obeys the directives of a just government including those which are morally reprehensible .
4 Another study ( Farag , 1979 ) used elastic matching with eight direction codes to establish accurate recognition , unfortunately for only ten cursively written key words .
5 The number was extremely complicated so realising that completion would take some time , he took out advertisements a year before of the first performance and announced that bookings would be accepted for the unseen act .
6 What planetary body could have been sufficiently hot internally to generate igneous magmas so recently ?
7 Such a conception need be only precise enough to achieve this result .
8 Once it had been a railway shed , indeed the tracks were still in it , later , in a period when Gilbey 's Gin had used the building as a warehouse , a balcony had been added , which was only wide enough to take one person .
9 One eats meat once a week , and only two ever ate fresh fruit .
10 It is extremely rare now to find environmental organisations out-manoeuvred by scientists , or by corporate or other interests using science as a weapon against them .
11 Phonemes are obviously sensitive enough to make fine discriminations between lexical descriptions since this is their function by definition .
12 In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground .
13 ’ Again , it is not possible here to do these justice in the space available .
14 Due to lack of space , it was obviously not possible here to provide complete transcriptions of each interview , including the interviewer 's questions .
15 Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment .
16 It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’
17 It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash .
18 Late in the nineteenth century , however , they were not strong enough to resist European troops .
19 The output from these is not strong enough to harm other animals , rarely rising about a single volt .
20 It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations .
21 And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision .
22 The statistics are not reliable enough to answer this question with any confidence , but an estimate may be made given certain assumptions .
23 The use of the voice in conjunction with the body is an important feature of training , too , for when acting you will need to be physically free enough to do several things at once .
24 The results in this section were not comprehensive enough to enable firm conclusions to be drawn .
25 But the Chronicle itself is not comprehensive enough to make such doubts irresistible ( see below ) , and skaldic poetry is sometimes a valuable supplement to our other sources , especially on the fighting of Æthelred 's reign and Cnut 's activities in Scandinavia .
26 It is not unusual now to see several St. Albans and Harpeneden Members turn up twice a week .
27 Farrs fronted Brown Street ; on the left hand side were the sliding glass doors to the showroom , just large enough to take one vehicle .
28 One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career .
29 Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas .
30 The intelligentsia were required to fill the role vacated by other classes , but , in the more advanced borderland principalities , their social significance was not large enough to advance national demands in isolation .
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