Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The play specifies long-drawn-out public torture for many animals , especially those the playwright deems most to offend against the Conventional Rules of Duty . |
| 2 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 3 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 4 | ‘ That is simply not strong enough to cope with the difficult challenges in front of us . |
| 5 | The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie . |
| 6 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 7 | He was hard enough to resist at the best times . |
| 8 | One has only to look at the economic forecasts . |
| 9 | One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment . |
| 10 | If this all sounds a bit old-fashioned and too good to be true , you have only to look at the happy faces of these children who thoroughly enjoy spending their weekends mucking out , cleaning tack and grooming , while waiting their turn to ride . |
| 11 | It was designed merely to fit within the minimal requirements of the European Convention and it hardly revolutionises the data privacy scene . |
| 12 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 13 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 14 | This is not only to do with the intellectual innovations that led to the idea of the first factual surveys through to the social psychological and , finally , to the explanatory surveys incorporating variable analysis , but also to do with what is indicated about the nature of society and social life . |
| 15 | Their lordships held that ‘ they had jurisdiction so to do in the exceptional circumstances of the case provided the conditions were specific ’ ( The Times , 24 Oct. , 1974 , p. 10 ) . |
| 16 | Here it is enough to note the invariable practice of including in a partnership agreement ( Clause 26 ) a provision which requires an outgoing partner , or his representatives , to join in a continuation election under s113 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 upon being requested so to do by the continuing partners . |
| 17 | But this is not enough to deal with the multiple expressions and experiences of subjectivity . |
| 18 | Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians . |
| 19 | in the pool there was a win in the Welsh Championships for Karen Rake of the Maxwell Club in Aylesbury … that was the good news … the bad news her time of 34.48 was n't good enough to qualify for the European Championships |
| 20 | Moss 's loyalty to British manufacturers like Cooper , Jaguar , Frazer-Nash and ERA certainly hindered his early progress as they could not provide cars good enough to compete with the European manufacturers . |
| 21 | A merger is defined to be a business combination in which , rather than one party acquiring control of another , the parties come together to share in the future risks and benefits of the combined entity . |
| 22 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 23 | It is a curious fact that the poor benighted people who were unfortunate enough to live in the rural wetlands did not seem to share the prejudices of their visitors at all . |
| 24 | Sieving of this order of simplicity is not , on its own , enough to account for the massive amounts of nonrandom order that we see in living things . |
| 25 | The goldfinches pecked neatly and precisely : The snow buntings burrowed energetically , discarding dead stalks and leaves with a quick flick of the head ; then dug deeper to get at the hidden seeds , their busy movements leaving visible impressions . |
| 26 | The very aromatic nature of the Arbanne suggests it might well be an ancient variant of the Chardonnay Blanc Musque or , possibly , the Muscadelle of Bordeaux , both of which ripen early enough to survive in the southern extremities of Champagne . |
| 27 | Nor were the levels of resources available enough to pay for the increased skills needed for the more complex requirements of local administration . |
| 28 | One has only to think of the simple arpeggios and ostinatos based on triads in Les Illuminations ( 1939 ) , or the seemingly effortless , tuneful setting of well-XXXX known poetry in the Serenade ( 1943 ) . |
| 29 | Your long spade will be sharp enough to chop through the smaller roots with little if any delay . |
| 30 | ‘ I raised my game just enough to get through the early rounds , ’ he said of his performance . |