Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much sad did happen . |
| 2 | Lord Young felt less able to help increase foreign shareholding limits since the commission was investigating Rolls Royce 's foreign shareholding arrangements . |
| 3 | The mere 19 bars Lully provided for all this would seem to need a lot of stretching , and a good raucous oboe band would certainly come in handy to help fill out the accompaniment to these shenanigans . |
| 4 | To be deprived of his place on the mission was one thing that he was not prepared to let happen . |
| 5 | He looked tired , in the bruised way that people who are physically slight do look tired , but not so much so that any of the congregation would notice . |
| 6 | Once it has found a nipple , the tip swells in its mouth so that the young is not able to let go even if it wanted to . |
| 7 | We are immensely keen to help consolidate democracy in Nepal . |
| 8 | Nevertheless contracting does incur greater administrative costs in the form of new accounting and information systems and staff . |
| 9 | By creating and maintaining institutions that deny feelings of warmth and tenderness , by encouraging male competitive and aggressive styles of human encounter , prisons are killing off in prisoners those qualities most likely to help re-establish them in the community . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying getting all dressed solves the problem , but as bank managers are human , it does make 'em that much more willing to help try and solve it . |
| 11 | Such a photograph is more likely to help sell the newspapers ! |
| 12 | The point we wish to make is that , even when these other factors are taken into account , decisions for which the courts are themselves directly responsible do have a major part to play in determining imprisonment rates . |
| 13 | Looked at like that , I gradually began to feel a little more able to let go of my unrealistic expectations of my mother and to love her as she is . |
| 14 | the objectives of the organization and I mean I l i think a lot of the things we 've got up actual do relate back to everything that we do . |
| 15 | Jay 's heart knew better , was utterly sure , given the picture of the swing , that Lucy was poised for a recklessly brilliant let go . |
| 16 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 17 | A range of library cells , between 2.7V and 11V are also available to help reduce design times . |
| 18 | So while they are happy to hammer out their version of Blue Oyster Cult 's ‘ Godzilla ’ , they are also keen to let rip with ‘ Incinerator ’ , which boils with improvised noise and twisted , tortured threat . |
| 19 | Explain that you are now ready to let go . |
| 20 | No , this pay-off is our last chance , and one that I was n't prepared to let slip . ’ |
| 21 | But in the South-West , where a further large power station would be particularly useful to help balance out supplies into the national grid , there were a number of possibilities . |
| 22 | She 's particularly keen to help find out how children get the disease . |
| 23 | This feeling was too good , too exciting to let go of . |
| 24 | Mollie Salisbury had designed several gardens for friends , as well as her own at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire , and she was only too delighted to help plan a garden from scratch . |
| 25 | Craigs parents are now taking legal advice to find out if they can take action against Tewkesbury borough council — but as his mother says , it 'll come too late to help craig : |
| 26 | Its roots are tenacious and most people still wish to acknowledge the ideal of Christian values , as George Carey , Archbishop of Canterbury , noted at the 1991 2nd Malvern Conference , " I would deny that Britain is post-Christian — I think that people have basic Christian values which they would be very reluctant to let go . " |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be only too pleased to help get something sorted out for poor old Len ; life is n't exactly going to be easy for him . |
| 28 | The chance to convert a proposal long mooted into reality was too precious to let slip . |
| 29 | Iranian premier Moussavi 's response was to say that Iran was only too ready to help make the referendum possible . |