Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 4 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 5 | The small dark eyes crinkled in their walnut bags ; the magnificent profusion of handlebar moustache , grown long ago to compensate for a balding pate , bristled with the start of a smile . |
| 6 | It was only with the American-led development from the 1900s of geriatric medicine as a new specialty , followed in the interwar years by self-help books and clubs encouraging older people to keep fit , travel , keep working , and — at least from the 1950s — stay sexually active , that informed European opinion began once more to swing towards a positive view of ageing . |
| 7 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 8 | It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist . |
| 9 | Secondly there are restraints upon the business in which the person receiving the business secrets may engage ( ie not to compete in a certain way for a particular time because of the risk of use or disclosure of business secrets ) . |
| 10 | Mujtaba should have been caught at slip by Gooch when only 17 , Munton the suffering bowler , and the skipper , now into double figures with international catching errors this year , surely about to relaunch as a mid-off . |
| 11 | Perverse unreasonable Pamela , begone from my sight and know as well how to behave in a hopeful prospect as in a distressful state . |
| 12 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 13 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 14 | Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism . |
| 15 | There was yet more to follow as a further instalment of the Rosenstein collection of memorabilia included a truly splendid photograph of an early assembly of aviation collectible ( C ) . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many of those who live on their income from savings are either widows or those who retired early , very often to look after an elderly dependant ? |