Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus the Vision Mixer and the Director must time exactly when to begin running the leader in such a way that , as the scene on the studio floor finishes , the picture can be cut smoothly to the scene on film . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Conceivably , the controls on litter and the promised crackdown on pollution will happen quickly enough to produce a political pay-off . |
| 10 | A learner who lacks confidence and competence will take much longer to implement care , and will also put the patient at risk . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The modern woman should know just how to disarm suspicion with a floppy silk collar , how to imply kindliness with a tasteful floral print , or intimidate with a well-placed lapel . |
| 13 | It was a gamble , that the economy could grow fast enough to sustain the repayments . |
| 14 | Alternatively , this student could go straight on to take an occupational SVQs at level I. |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | This type of competition may take much longer to judge as the judges will have to look at all the entries . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | But the borehole must go deep enough to reach the aquifer , even if this means drilling far below the potentiometric surface . |
| 19 | An intelligent human would know enough not to go , um , where it was n't wanted , ’ said Nisodemus sourly . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |