Example sentences of "[adv] to be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency of a work to deprave or corrupt its readers was henceforth to be judged in the light of its total impact , rather than by the arousing potential of " purple passages " . |
| 2 | How jarring it seemed then that , at the consecration , reference had necessarily to be made to the man Jesus of Nazareth : he had to take centre stage . |
| 3 | The usually veiled criticism contained in the report material , and the open comment coming to light in denunciations and court prosecutions , have necessarily to be regarded as the tip of the iceberg . |
| 4 | They should be taught to recognise that the attitudes and behaviour of a character or narrator are not necessarily to be identified with the attitudes or beliefs of the author . |
| 5 | ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews . |
| 6 | The North-Eastern Railway set aside 200 guineas annually to be divided among the 60 best-kept stations , divided into four groups . |
| 7 | The Great Western Railway set aside , £250 annually to be divided among the winners of twelve sections , with a first prize of £5 in each section . |
| 8 | Personal support , guidance and encouragement for the musical director are rightly to be expected from the clergy , parish leaders and congregation . |
| 9 | The PCD secretariat then carries the investigation forward with the provision that , if the matter proves to be significant enough to be referred to the Investigation Committee , the ARC will be informed so that it can consider the case further . |
| 10 | By the time the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked ninety-five days later , there would be a total of two killings , two assaults , thirty-five bombings , the taking of one hostage , and seventy-one other ‘ disruptions ’ involving such things as sabotage of railroads , gunfire directed against people , trains , and motor vehicles , property damage , and other incidents of violence serious enough to be noted by the Department of Justice . |
| 11 | Martin stopped a few feet before him and stood with legs planted firmly apart , said loud enough to be heard above the music , ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ How long ? ’ shouted Billie from the rear , loud enough to be heard over the roar of the two-hundred horsepower engine . |
| 13 | They turned south this time and soon Jenna was amused and intrigued to see huge gaggles of geese in fields , moving about almost as one and honking loud enough to be heard over the noise of the car . |
| 14 | But there was a snap loud enough to be heard in the bushes , and then a long-drawn-out clinking noise as the chain fell away . |
| 15 | Afterwards he will raise his voice and holler loud enough to be heard by the whole roomful of guests milling around chatting , perhaps talking excitedly with drinks in their hands , ‘ LADIES and GENTLEMEN ! |
| 16 | As soon as the infant Arthur was old enough to be propped against the proscenium arch , he was included in the turn . |
| 17 | The third was tall enough to be seen from the sea , both east and west of the island . |
| 18 | Somehow she found her voice and said faintly , ‘ I do n't think I 'm strong enough to be ravished at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | The client invariably had to make up his own mind , that is if he was lucky enough to be alerted to the exact opportunity . |
| 20 | Each segment is designed to be small enough to be covered by the salesperson during one day 's work . |
| 21 | The first jennies were hand worked and small enough to be operated in the cottages ; as Maxine Berg has put it : " It was part of the domestic system , the machine of the poor . " |
| 22 | I should just add that I was lucky enough to be selected for the only European Commission sponsored place at the EEB conference . |
| 23 | Sometimes you might even be lucky enough to be endowed with the qualities of the people you play — John Wayne , for example , was held up as being symbolic of everything that was good and right about America . |
| 24 | This pond survived just long enough to be incorporated into the Shropshire Union Canal in 1833 , complete with an unusual wealth of water plants , which have earned the canal basin the status of Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1986 . |
| 25 | Traffic was passing that way as early as the Shang dynasty and under the Han the silk route was crucial enough to be incorporated in the Empire . |
| 26 | Small and undetectable numbers of sulphate reducing bacteria may have been present , unable to increase rapidly enough to be detected during the short period of this study . |
| 27 | The work was successful enough to be repeated at the Club 's next performance , given at Sadler 's Wells in November , this time with Nadia Nerina as the wooden doll . |
| 28 | But he was stable enough to be transferred from the town 's general hospital to the specialist Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool , where he remains on a ventilator . |
| 29 | However , despite a considerable amount of research , there is as yet no theoretical model of the relevant processes that is explicit enough to be expressed in the form of a computer program . |
| 30 | Among his achievements at Chelsea were some pineapples considered fine enough to be presented to the King by Sir Hans Sloane . |