Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would be most grateful to receive nominations before the closing date , March 31st . , . |
| 2 | Somehow , I felt it was rather sacrilegious to mention Jesus 's name aloud where we were . |
| 3 | ( ii ) It then becomes rather palatable to describe f as the function given by unc or again as the function given by af = b , for all a ε A. |
| 4 | There is more room for disagreement with Grant and Wallace 's assertion that a pro-labour climate is most conducive to strike violence , principally because workers may feel that such behaviour will be tolerated under a supportive regime . |
| 5 | He decided eventually that to embrace Buddhism would be to plunge into a world too culturally alien . |
| 6 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 8 | The suggestion to be explored is rather that to think difference culturally rather than sexually might be both more illuminating and more liberating . |
| 9 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 10 | The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on , but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans . |
| 11 | Grasscloth is delicate , needs handling with care , and is most suited to light-wear areas of the house . |
| 12 | It is a little easier to protect computer software — but it is in the nature of the material that it must be copiable to be produced . ’ |
| 13 | The difficulties of the student in arranging pupillage make it rather theoretical to give advice on the assumption that he can pick and choose . |
| 14 | It is as if he is most careful to avoid reference to ideology because that would imply a determinacy that his analysis would have to confront . |
| 15 | He was grimly prepared to face criticism of his trick on Hector , but Eachuinn Odhar was determined that Lachlan should be chosen . |
| 16 | He would find somewhere high to take stance and think . |
| 17 | This was successfully accomplished and it will be most interesting to follow developments . |
| 18 | It was wholly unrealistic to construe paragraph 19 without regard to paragraph 16 . |
| 19 | It is perhaps possible to recognize traces of the version of Nicolas of Damascus in the account of Josephus in Bellum Judaicum 1 if we compare it with the much more elaborate story told by Josephus in his Antiquitates Judaicae . |
| 20 | Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right . |
| 21 | So if under our present system 25,000 votes go to Alphonse and 15,000 to Belinda and 10,000 to Cuthbert , the votes wasted are the 25,000 given to the two defeated candidates plus 9,999 of the votes given to Alphonse who needed only 15,001 to defeat Belinda , his closest competitor . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , she was sufficiently alert to give vent to her usual state of ill-humour . |
| 23 | It 's it 's not necessarily possible to generate jobs from with within its own boundaries . |
| 24 | Other people , some obviously unused to rough walking and ill-equipped for it , will inevitably be encountered on the popular path through the gorge , their approach being heralded by screams and shouts , to the dismay of those who prefer to be solitary and silent amidst scenes of grandeur , but this is a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace . |
| 25 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 26 | Please note that the studio is also used as a theatre , bistro and rehearsal space , so it is often only possible to see exhibitions after 6pm . |
| 27 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 28 | In the rundown areas of inner cities which are unattractive to developers and other entrepreneurs it will often be only possible to stimulate business activity by an injection of public funds . |
| 29 | To take a specific example , from the same book SIMULATIONS , It is not only possible to analyse Disneyland as a digest of the American way of life but such an ideological analysis conceals a further order of simulations : " Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which IS Disneyland … |
| 30 | Unfortunately , in the present study it was only possible to make comparisons among symptomatic children , because ethical constraints precluded measurement of UOS pressure from children who were well . |