Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moor Scope battled on gamely to retake the lead from Impy Condor on the flat in the Confined and Farmer Tom was always going like a winner in the Restricted race , in which Alner and even-money favourite Baron Bob crashed at the second fence . |
| 2 | To be a professional is to exercise ( and most importantly to have the ability to exercise ) one 's professional skills and to make professional decisions , without deference to moral , religious or political beliefs and points of view . |
| 3 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 4 | ( b ) those details and examples that seem most successfully to illustrate the main points . |
| 5 | It is Christian Lacroix who seems most acutely to express the spirit of the age . |
| 6 | They have removed the attack on our conference and at last we can now get on together to build a better union . |
| 7 | The intent is rather merely to summarize the account of his life as given by Taskopruzade and Mecdi in order to convey the general course of his career . |
| 8 | Take the crack through these then traverse delicately leftwards to reach a good ledge . |
| 9 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 10 | The physiotherapist usually has several pillows available to support the patient , plus a wedge cushion , which is a foam support measuring about 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long , 2½ feet ( 76 cm ) wide , 6 inches ( 15 cm ) deep at the top , tapering down lengthwise to form the wedge shape . |
| 11 | The mixture was heated to 90°C and cooled down slowly to form the hybrids . |
| 12 | He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang , but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God . |
| 13 | They are going to give the children the idea that it is all right to change the facts to suit your way of thinking . |
| 14 | It is all right to tell a whopper on an answering machine ( ‘ We 're sorry that we can not answer your call right now ’ is either a lie or a statement of the obvious ) , but no one will forgive you for not ‘ getting back ’ to him later . |
| 15 | Right , no it it 's all right to stuff the elephant , but but we thought we 'd better not stop the human being as well . |
| 16 | This can be rasped down effectively to give no further problems . |
| 17 | Australia , New Zealand , Pakistan , the Philippines , Thailand , Great Britain and France came together additionally to sign the South East Asia Treaty Organisation ( SEATO ) Pact in Manila in September 1954 . |
| 18 | Ghia trim heralds a huge list of goodies , but perhaps only to turn the attention away from the lacklustre dynamics . |
| 19 | ‘ It is no longer enough merely to acknowledge the facts … and to hope that science will solve by itself the problems that it is creating . |
| 20 | For a convincing construction of a normal form it is not enough merely to list a few types of equivalence that can arise and show how to deal with them . |
| 21 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 22 | Instead of searching for the musical expression of class standpoints one will do better so to conceive the relation of music to classes that any music will present the picture of antagonistic society as a whole ( Adorno 1976 : 68 , 69 , emphasis added ) . |
| 23 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |
| 24 | For a final shot , pull back to a wider view of the scene and hold this for long enough to mark the winding-up of the sequence . |
| 25 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 27 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 28 | He unclasped them just long enough to push a small packet across the desk towards Ruth . |
| 29 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 30 | That evening I managed to stay awake long enough to watch the video . |