Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers themselves will need to know enough about language to use this knowledge confidently . |
| 2 | Only with difficulty does this Pan-American champion yuppie regain his imagination and conquer his fear of flying . |
| 3 | Or , if they have the skills , they simply ca n't be bothered to train hard enough in order to maximise that potential . |
| 4 | If he had consulted a Green candidate , he would have been told that even the other parties ' policies are not tough enough in theory let alone practice . |
| 5 | A table of prime numbers , selected so that they are not too near to a factor of ten , and close enough in value to allow any packing density to be selected within half of a percent , is given in Appendix 4 . |
| 6 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 7 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 8 | While in his view Truth need not assume shape or form at any time , yet when it is made to do so in order to meet specific human needs it is called Iśvara or God and assumes a personal connotation . |
| 9 | Geoffrey Howe 's plan was to increase taxes on petrol , alcohol and cigarettes ; to raise national insurance contributions ; and , worst of all , not to increase personal tax allowances , so in effect increasing personal taxation . |
| 10 | How religiously , if only in order to obviate neighbourly interference , the Darcian woman would observe contraceptive precautions ! |
| 11 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 12 | Only in Champagne has this grape proved so successful . |
| 13 | Only in time did this portrait of an angst-ridden , emotionally harried man prove tellingly accurate . |
| 14 | Value engineering , as described in Chapter 7 , is a structured method of considering the functions and costs of a product together in order to provide overall improvement in value , providing benefits for both user and manufacturer . |
| 15 | The project will consist of four seminars at which researchers working in different disciplines in both countries will meet together in order to develop this analysis . |
| 16 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 17 | As it is , having escaped this poisoned chalice and been given a good excuse to get rid of a woefully implausible leader , it is still very much in business to fight another day . |
| 18 | The salary paid to the collector by the county for his efforts to extract the cess from the taxpayers , moreover , was sufficient to stimulate competition for the post , and the attraction was enough on occasion to cause severe embarrassment to county politicians , who feared that support for one candidate would lead to the permanent alienation of his rivals and their friends . |
| 19 | This policy announcement , which was designed to curb heavy state spending in the health sector , had been made possible by the strong growth of medical aid schemes in all communities [ see above for plan to desegregate some state hospitals ] . |
| 20 | A more serious investigation was carried out on blue babies who required surgery soon after birth to correct congenital heart defects . |
| 21 | TO PROPHESY the rebirth of local railways sounds like pious hopefulness ; to declare that the process is already under way invites outright scorn . |
| 22 | She expected to find Lori 's head swimming into focus , close to her own , like a pale balloon and looked away in order to avoid that confrontation . |
| 23 | Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions . |
| 24 | Secondly , some change may be organised from above in order to encourage agricultural productivity and curb social injustice . |
| 25 | They charged for services or raised charges already in place to minimise real service cuts . |
| 26 | During the siege Stamford had rung its church bells backwards in order to summon Royalist support and in response Cromwell threatened to raze the entire town . |
| 27 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 28 | At Llandudno Junction , Control contacted the Motive Power who sauntered over towards the station , just in time to see Baglan Hall head for Llandudno . |
| 29 | She walked into the kitchen just in time to see Benny punch Garry in the face . |
| 30 | Amid a buzz of excitement I heard that it was ‘ one of old Maurice 's hits ’ , and I pushed my way through the crowd just in time to see another ball sail up into the sky towards the Castle . |