Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 2 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 3 | A landscape obviously planned , disciplined , tamed long , long since , and long since abandoned to the river , the seasons and the sky ; and not a human soul in sight . |
| 4 | This function has long since passed to the Cabinet . |
| 5 | Questions of a possible denial of free speech arise in particular where the ‘ expression ’ is not a reprehensible exploitation of the defendant 's notoriety but is a literary production only loosely related to the defendant 's crimes . |
| 6 | I was given , in all circles , a great deal of orange squash , then as now considered the drink most fit for children , though only loosely connected to the orange . |
| 7 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 8 | The question of quantity used is obviously intimately related to the way a given individual finances his or her habit , a perspective which will be taken up in Chapter 7 . |
| 9 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 10 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 11 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 12 | By 1844 , when Wordsworth so fiercely objected to the coming of the railway , many more people were being attracted not just for the natural attributes of the area but for all those extra attractions which were suddenly being introduced such as ‘ wrestling , horse and boat races , and pot-houses and beer-shops . ’ |
| 13 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 14 | The consequence of this is one key problem that the venture capital industry faces : not so much related to the price of loan capital , but to its availability and the conditions under which it is lent . |
| 15 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 16 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 17 | The probabilistic approach proved to be much better suited to the task . |
| 18 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 19 | Farms in DRAs tend to be far less capital intensive than those in the more advantaged areas , and though as a result , are perhaps less exposed to the problem of debt-servicing than wealthier farmers , their incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices . |
| 20 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 21 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 22 | If mistreatment and eventual size confuse matters , those catalogues and articles that lump bush and shrub roses together only add to the confusion . |
| 23 | These were minds so naturally paced to the business of authorship that writing , from their middle years , must have absorbed their waking hours , their conversations and their dreams . |
| 24 | Colin Squire , perhaps best known to the yachting world as crew on many a high class yacht , pops up in a new guise as the representative of marine artist Harry Clow . |
| 25 | Given the extremes within the party it is not surprising that there is a continuing feud between those willing to make political deals and those so utterly opposed to the system that they will make no concessions . |
| 26 | Although only just elected to the Executive Committee as Galway Area Secretary , Tom is no stranger to ‘ 93 ’ as for 6 years , from 1973 top 1979 , he was an Executive Committee member as Cork District Secretary . |
| 27 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 28 | Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back . |
| 29 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 30 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |