Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail . |
| 2 | If the Christians do eventually deliver a true case of satanic child abuse — and , who knows , God forbid , they may , for satanists are real enough and a bit of copycat crime is surely due after all this publicity — it will be seen by many to validate all their arguments . |
| 3 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 4 | To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC . |
| 5 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |
| 6 | It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir . |
| 7 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 8 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |
| 9 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 10 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |
| 11 | Even Signor Grignaffini with his big stomach could only eat a certain amount at one time . |
| 12 | The good reporter did n't necessarily make a good man in the studio , I reminded myself . |
| 13 | Table 5.2 shows the necessary calculations and the fact that , if its cost of capital is 15 per cent , the rival can only earn a negative NPV of 252,497 . |
| 14 | There will be gardeners with established rose gardens who can only introduce a new plant at the expense of something else — a replacement of a loss perhaps , a substitution for something better , an extension or changed layout . |
| 15 | We can only consider a small fraction of this work here ; little consideration is given to occupational environments , for instance . |
| 16 | We shall only consider a small number of the world 's religions . |
| 17 | The old need help but they do not necessarily need a massive range of old people 's services . |
| 18 | The ferry can only carry a limited number of cars per hours . |
| 19 | They are small and can only carry a small amount of human DNA ( which substitutes for some of the viral genome , providing additional safety as well as more space ) , and only infect dividing cells . |
| 20 | But now Laura could only feel a deep well of sympathy and compassion for the older woman . |
| 21 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 22 | Trade unionists knew that they could only achieve a limited level of their ambitions through industrial means and they realized that they needed working class MPs to support them in parliament . |
| 23 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 24 | A solution involving the secession of Eritrea , he said , " would not only bring a great deal of difficulty to Ethiopia , but also to a large number of other countries in similar positions " . |
| 25 | In addition , we can only bring a small area of the view into sharp focus , whereas the compound eye sees equally clearly over its whole field of vision . |
| 26 | This table can only give a general feel of the capacity of the corpus to cover the transitions likely to arise in unseen text . |
| 27 | This chapter can only give a broad outline of BM and further reading is certainly justified at this stage . |
| 28 | The way we run our economy is the prime cause of environmental damage , now what the other parties are failing to see is that if we want to live in a truly ecological society , one that really recognises the constraints , er that the environment imposes on us , we have to have a consistent approach to every area of policy , so for example , in the Israel/Palestine conflict er debate , we have laid great stress on our , er advocating our own approach to conflict resolution , consensual approach , negotiations condemning the arms build-up which is inspired mainly by the U S , and so er whilst we have also debated some other more overtly environmental policies such as reaffirming our commitment to phase out nuclear power , we do lay great emphasis on er developing economic policies , particularly in the light of the up and coming general election and we want to obviously present a complete platform of policies to the electorate . |
| 29 | It became clear in the operation of the first category that , for example , strong social conscience or interest did not necessarily bring a concomitant skill in criminal advocacy . |
| 30 | May 1758 brought a brief letter from Miller : he had been preoccupied with business in the country and could only send a small parcel of seeds . |