Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 2 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 3 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 4 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 5 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 6 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 7 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 8 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 9 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 10 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 11 | The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities . |
| 12 | However , it seems fairly certain that the Moon is depleted in iron with respect to the Earth , not only in iron alone but also in iron-rich compounds because iron and these compounds are too dense to be sufficiently abundant to make up the iron abundance to that of the Earth . |
| 13 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 14 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 15 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 16 | Fortunately , most retailers will split packs for you if buying whole packs would be uneconomical , so it 's best either to count up the numbers you need from a scale plan of the area to be tiled , or else to use the ‘ number per square metre ’ figures given above . |
| 17 | Its Transitional Assistance Group was utterly inadequate to sort out the mess . |
| 18 | Women could also show their resentment of medical attitudes in popular anti-medical movements such as the contagious diseases agitation , the anti-vivisection league movement and the anti-compulsory vaccination struggle ; and feminists were easily able to point out the inadequacies of the myth of intrinsic female weakness . |
| 19 | Franco repeated the message of his 2 December letter when he said that he did not " see any advantage in change " and that if he were ever to delegate the leadership of the government , it would only be when he was no longer able to carry out the functions of that position as well as those of head of state . |
| 20 | Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels . |
| 21 | It is scarcely necessary to point out the inadequacy and sexism of this picture — in which women 's own collective labour as gatherers or tenders of gardens is entirely overlooked — and its inapplicability to many of the cultures in which sex-exclusive linguistic markers are found . |
| 22 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 23 | It is almost always possible to find out the answers to basic questions about pay and conditions prior to the interview . |
| 24 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 25 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Jones , I 'm honoured that you should choose me , but I do feel there are others far more suited to take on the responsibility , people who 've worked in radio far longer than I have . ’ |
| 27 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |
| 28 | Surprisingly the men were always delighted to take up the offer . |
| 29 | The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully . |
| 30 | 10.5 Where the medical adviser considers that an employee is permanently unfit to carry out the duties of their post as a result of a violent incident at work , the Director of Social Work or nominated officer will discuss the matter with the employee concerned who may be accompanied by a trade union representative or some other person of the employee 's choice . |