Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed .
2 The slow movement is a highly introspective affair , never afraid to dig in deep where others merely navigate surface implications .
3 Some colleagues are giving me some messages to read out it would n't be appropriate to do so today because colleagues they er forget them , so I 'm gon na do them tomorrow which will be more appropriate so please do n't think that I 've er forgotten them .
4 The track now survives and is quite easy to follow as far as Cemmaes .
5 We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing
6 But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs .
7 It would however be unwise to assume too easily that volumes will continue to grow rapidly .
8 But it was these same heads of kindreds and lords who were the major factor in ending feud and in maintaining order within local society ; and they were able to do so not as individuals but as men of power with powerful backing .
9 Rostov knew that he was going to be able to kick again long before Alexei was in contact with a surface .
10 Whatever the government , the NHS has always been seen as underfunded and that is unlikely to change so long as children and old people wait months for operations .
11 The police are n't telling us anything — I have n't been able to get as far as Marshall and the others just look mysterious and say they do n't know . ’
12 It was hard to adjust to a normal life ; to no longer fearing that the door would suddenly be opened and somebody would come to take us away ; to the thought that there might soon be more food ; and that we might be able to travel further afield than Parma or even Trieste .
13 Many of those properties were either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation , some were already allotted to service families who were due to move in shortly and others were being considered for disposal .
14 I WAS surprised to read in TODAY that Weymouth Town Charities intends to evict a 90-year-old woman from her home for having her TV and radio on too loud .
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