Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 2 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |
| 3 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a lovely piece , not on the same level as Mozart 's , of course , but it 's certainly instructive to hear even a lesser composer 's point of view ! |
| 5 | Since Marxists have been more concerned to analyse the workings of capitalist societies than to draw up blueprints of collective organization after the state has withered away ( an exercise which in any case Marx regarded as Utopian and unscientific ) , it is not easy to piece together a communist theory of administration , in the sense of a model for society after the stage of socialism , during which the dictatorship of the proletariat systematically removed the material foundation of state repression . |
| 6 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 7 | As we have seen , it is n't easy to throw together a flying machine . |
| 8 | Initially , most contracts are likely to include only a broad specification of the service being purchased . |
| 9 | Who can say whether the ambitious executive , brimming with ideas today , will be a suitable candidate for management tomorrow — or likely to remain just a great ideas person ? ’ |
| 10 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 11 | At the outset we must state that the picture is still very unclear and that those forms of depressions which can be linked to an abnormal body clock are likely to form only a small proportion of all cases . |
| 12 | Any expenditure by the Regional Council would be from an identified Industrial Development Budget heading , and would be likely to form only a small proportion of the total project cost . |
| 13 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 14 | The second reason for regarding the section as likely to have only a limited impact is that the relevant duty , like the duty to act bona fide for the benefit of the company , is a subjective one . |
| 15 | Altering the relative breadth , depth or pattern of courses seems likely to make only a marginal difference to their reputation inside and outside the higher education system . |
| 16 | It was not possible to put together a written record of the work we did not displays at the July ‘ 81 Q.T. Day , as some sections ’ notes ( 1st & 2nd Ball groups , 2nd Club group ) were never received . |
| 17 | It held up in the water , throwing the Luton defence off balance and enabling Black to drive home a left-footed volley . |
| 18 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 19 | It is helpful to have both a rigid rule — a lm wooden or steel rule , say and a flexible steel tape for measuring pipe runs and so on . |
| 20 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 21 | Many highly evolved species protect their fry from being eaten , as the parents are more able to drive away a would-be predator . |
| 22 | An account of society in terms of practices which may ‘ complement ’ or ‘ undermine ’ each other is therefore potentially able to provide both a social theory , and a theory of history , since it gives us a way of analysing the relations between practices at a particular time and the conditions in which they change . |
| 23 | In this leaflet we have been able to detail only a small part of our activities . |
| 24 | In any real experiment one will be able to detect only a limited number of stages . |
| 25 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 26 | More importantly , the company 's development people have to be able to handle simultaneously a wide range of projects , often at different stages ( feasibility , formulation development , process scale-up ) and generally on different major compounds ; it is experience which develops both scientific competence and real commercial awareness . |
| 27 | Indeed and I think the er the point about Eurofighter is that it 's a very flexible er aircraft , it 's a multi-role aircraft , it 's a cost effective aircraft and therefore it er , as you say , may well be able to cover quite a large spectrum . |
| 28 | As the polymerase chain reaction is able to amplify even a single molecule , contamination by any previously amplified DNA would be catastrophic . |
| 29 | Bassano 's book was published in Venice , however , and Venice-where ‘ music had her very own home ’ as Francesco Sansovino claimed in his Venetia , citta nobilissima et singolare ( Venice , 1581 ) — was politically at odds with the papacy during the latter part of the century and was shortly afterwards able to defy successfully a papal interdict . |
| 30 | At this rate , I shall one day be able to put together a complete Pictures and Requiem … |