Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able . |
| 2 | In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter . |
| 3 | It is rising so high that makes us afraid , he thought , lest we fall or are cast down . |
| 4 | In the letter , Mr Lilley says : ‘ I propose a three-pronged course of action which would focus the benefit more closely on the long-term sick , make it less generous and make it taxable . ’ |
| 5 | Her beautiful mother who missed her so much and sent her all her love . |
| 6 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 7 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 8 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 9 | As part of the registration process the Law Society must satisfy itself that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate : — |
| 10 | The Standards and Guidance Committee is satisfied that the professions listed below are so regulated as to make it appropriate for solicitors to enter into MNPs with members of those professions , and for members of those professions to be officers of recognised bodies , in accordance with Schedule 14 paragraph 2(2) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 11 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 12 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
| 13 | If they 'd had a key , they would n't have been so careless as to leave it open , would they ? ’ |
| 14 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 15 | We try to rotate all the jobs on site between the eight of us — it makes life more interesting and gives us more flexibility . |
| 16 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 17 | Which is probably better than getting them all at the same time . |
| 18 | He talks enthusiastically about ‘ getting back to some real police work ’ in ‘ the real world ’ , even though his responsibilities as Divisional Commander will be mainly administrative and give him little or no contact with the ‘ dangerous classes ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 20 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 21 | I wish I may not be too fond and make him indifferent . |
| 22 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 23 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 24 | He was very tired and found it hard to concentrate for long periods of time . |
| 25 | He was n't taking anything seriously other than treating them both as nuisances . |