Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 2 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 3 | I would rather not speak of it . ’ |
| 4 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |
| 5 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 6 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 7 | If two monads coincided in all their attributes , then they would be indistinguishable and one could not properly speak of " two " monads . |
| 8 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 9 | It follows that , strictly , we can not justifiably speak of the " same propositions " , or the " same concepts " . |
| 10 | Such lexical chains need not necessarily consist of words which mean the same , however . |
| 11 | We do not necessarily think of pigments in the context of metalwork , but there are traditions of painted metal statues . |
| 12 | Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person . |
| 13 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 14 | An Irish House of Lords , in my view , should not only consist of Anglo-Irish peers , but of clan chiefs and both Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops . |
| 15 | The environment does not only consist of what we can see and touch , it encompasses sound too . |
| 16 | She knew that her father did not exactly approve of her lifestyle , but he had refrained from saying anything to her because he doted on her . |
| 17 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the language used in the SGA 1979 does not easily admit of Diplock LJ 's tertium quid where terms are defined as " conditions " or " warranties " . |
| 19 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 20 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 21 | Although alarm is not expressed to relate to any particular source of concern , we do not usually speak of alarm in a vacuum . |
| 22 | For reasons outlined earlier in this chapter these do not usually consist of jobs , but rather of space ( which will be considered in the following chapter under the heading of land use and access ) and housing . |
| 23 | Ybreska would not ever think of his little errands as subversive acts . |
| 24 | It is , as Lord Renton pointed out in an address to this Society in 1990 , too much to ask that legislation should always be expressed simply ; for the complexities of modern life do not always admit of simplicity and we can not afford , in providing a code of conduct , to sacrifice certainty to simplicity . |
| 25 | People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others . |
| 26 | To be sure , the latter did not always approve of royal actions , for even the most pious rulers occasionally transgressed . |
| 27 | In many cases , if viewed more lightly , it may be incorporated into marital sexuality ; but the feelings of the partner do not always allow of this . |
| 28 | I say if she thought till she was tired , she could not possibly think of any wrong … . |
| 29 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 30 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |