Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can you be so utterly selfish as to uproot the child from her home and school at this stage , when nothing has been finally decided by the court ? |
| 2 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 3 | The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ . |
| 4 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 5 | As has been pointed out " the purpose of many opposition amendments is not to make the Bill more generally acceptable but to make the Government less generally acceptable . " |
| 6 | You will also find that to generate the right question is usually more difficult than to find the right answer . |
| 7 | The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks . |
| 8 | Burial and fossilization changes are often so extensive as to obscure the primary modifications which must be identified in order to understand the mechanisms of accumulation of the bones . |
| 9 | A local priest was even so bold as to call the system ‘ a home-brew democracy … . |
| 10 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 11 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 12 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 13 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |