Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , need not so much reflect a decline of the village as a social centre ( its past vitality has often been greatly exaggerated ) as the extension of a wider range of choice to those sections of the rural population whose ownership of a car or a motorcycle has granted them easier access to urban amenities . |
| 2 | In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis . |
| 3 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 4 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 5 | How sad that the FA should so unashamedly cheapen the wearing of an England shirt in the blatant pursuit of commercial gain , thus following the examples of teams like Arsenal and Manchester United who , on occasions , manage to achieve the appearance of circus clowns . |
| 6 | The extra cash , however , will only partly soften the impact of the introduction of the poll tax next year . |
| 7 | She made it sound very simple , as young people do ; and she had n't yet considered the implications for herself , Mr Stanforth reflected cynically , or she would not so blithely dismiss the matter of the inheritance . |
| 8 | If past experience is any guide , the present engines of administration and leadership will only sluggishly meet the pressure of the occasion . |
| 9 | We may most easily reveal the power of these influences on Dicey 's thought by posing what from a contemporary perspective seems to be a major difficulty with Dicey 's theory : how do we reconcile the twin principles of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law ? |
| 10 | She did not altogether like the sound of this . |
| 11 | Even if the courts do not wholly embrace the theory of extensive review , the way is now open for review of the evidence supporting the decision-maker 's findings . |
| 12 | If Churchill , even at the end of 1951 , did not wholly discount the possibility of a pre-emptive attack by the USSR , he was beginning to see American impulsiveness as a more likely cause of conflict . |
| 13 | Cooking , particularly boiling , reduces but does not wholly remove the firmness of food . |
| 14 | The other major weakness of the proposals is that they do not properly identify the nature of the problem . |
| 15 | Record-breaking and the alleged mania for quantification can not properly explain the appeal of sport . |
| 16 | In our view this directive does not properly tackle the cruelty of the veal crate and we voted against it . |
| 17 | The problem arises where a debtor is required by a creditor to provide security for his indebtedness ; the debtor and creditor agree that the security will be provided by some third party ; the relationship between the debtor and the third party , typically husband and wife , makes it likely that the third party 's assistance will be forthcoming ; the debtor procures the third party 's consent by some material misrepresentation or by exerting undue pressure or influence of some kind ; the third party signs the necessary security documents without any independent advice and without any explanation from the creditor of the true effect of the documents ; the third party subsequently , as a defence to the creditor 's attempt to enforce the security documents , contends that he or she was induced to sign by the debtor 's material misrepresentation , or did not properly understand the import of the documents , or that his or her consent was not a true consent having regard to influence or pressure exerted by the debtor . |
| 18 | It did not properly highlight the nature of the church or the church 's mission to the world . |
| 19 | Second , against the prevailing liberal optimism of their time , they argued that the transition to an industrialized society with a system of representative democracy could not fundamentally alter the stratification of society into a ruling elite and a mass . |
| 20 | To create new vehicles of communication in this context meant creating a system of broadcasting which could survive outside the duopoly yet one which would not fundamentally damage the ecology of the system . |
| 21 | But although humanist theory takes as its object all the elements of subjectivity which empirical psychology 's concept of the subject excludes , it does not thereby challenge the structure of this concept . |
| 22 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 23 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the introduction of the Merger Regulation does not entirely preclude the application of Articles 85 and 86 in merger situations under the doctrines developed in Continental Can and Philip Morris . |
| 25 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 26 | Apollinaire , on the other hand , although he did not entirely understand the nature of Braque 's new development and failed to realize that even though Braque was beginning to paint largely from memory , his work was still often related directly to his models , instinctively realized that Braque had accomplished something important and original . |
| 27 | He did not greatly mind the lack of light . |
| 28 | That might not greatly increase the number of youngsters who stayed on at school . |
| 29 | History shows that the long-term effect of altering the price of motorised travel does not necessarily affect the amount of money people and organisations spend on transport . |
| 30 | The fact that one of the parties is a public body does not necessarily affect the nature of the dispute or the law applicable to it . |