Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] 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 | Clearly many staff had found the self-appraisal to be a valuable exercise and it was such staff , it seems , that were most positive about the process as a whole and who were most willing to take seriously the advisers ' recommendations . |
| 3 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While it is easy to understand why the drug makers pursue the will-of-the-wisp of the ultimate painkiller ; it is less easy to understand why the Committee on Safety of Medicines licenses them with no evidence of improvement in either safety or effectiveness . |
| 8 | It is understandable that facts such as those in Bank of Montreal v. Stuart may seem to justify this stringent requirement , but less easy to understand why the facts of Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones , 128 L.T. 218 should have done so . |
| 9 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Just tell me one last thing : as everyone is so busy wiping out the memory of the last 40 odd years , do you still want to keep your military headstone with its red star ? |
| 12 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 13 | The authority is wiser and therefore better able to establish how the individual should act . |
| 14 | The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities . |
| 15 | It is extremely difficult to gauge accurately the dimensions of the shroud from these brasses , but a mean average would be twelve inches longer than the length of the body — to allow for a six-inch knot at top and bottom — and three times its width . |
| 16 | IT is perhaps difficult to understand why The Rite of Spring caused a theatrical scandal when first it was danced in Paris in 1913 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The loose political consensus in the United States which produced the AT&T break-up of 1982–4 also hoped to encourage telephone deregulation in the rest of the world ; the AT&T high command were especially eager to enter both the computer business and the world market for telephone equipment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Its Transitional Assistance Group was utterly inadequate to sort out the mess . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund , and charges which probably the lady herself would have had to pay or get paid for her , if she were resident in New York , and which the trustees will have to account for fully , can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received , lodged with the bankers of the beneficiaries . |
| 25 | I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund … can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received [ and ] lodged with the bankers of the beneficiary . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 30 | Although it is already fashionable to explain away the scale of the election successes — by such factors as the Falklands , Foot , Benn , and an inept Labour campaign in 1983 , and prosperity and the disproportional electoral system in 1987 — the results marked a further stage in the decline of the Labour party . |