Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 2 | Differences on European defence policy [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ; 38155 ; 38216 ; 38295 ; 38313 ] emerged over Franco-German plans for a European force based in Strasbourg [ see p. 38554 ] , although responses were sufficiently guarded as to suggest a reluctance to revive transatlantic splits in NATO . |
| 3 | Below the front windows was a box extension of about two feet in length , so placed as to increase the space of the interior . |
| 4 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |
| 5 | If you cross out some words and subsequently wish to restore them , the accepted way of doing it is to put dots underneath the words so deleted and to write ‘ stet ’ in the margin . |
| 6 | When applications that year were made , Lauda and others were smart enough to realize that the licences had been so designed as to tie them to their teams , a move cleverly designed by certain constructors to lower the price war among drivers and to prevent desertions in the ranks . |
| 7 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 8 | Another senior police officer who more than once captured the headlines , James Anderton , Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , decrying ‘ the rot that has now taken a firm hold in the fabric of our society ’ , was so moved as to describe crime as Britain 's ‘ Top Growth Industry ’ . |
| 9 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 10 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 11 | The class can simply tell him he has to go , but the moment of eviction is potentially highly charged and to let it slip by is to waste opportunities . |
| 12 | On the other hand , pressure of whatever character , whether acting on the fears or the hopes , if so exerted as to overpower the volition without convincing the judgment , is a species of restraint under which no valid will can be made . |
| 13 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 14 | The British Navy thus became the dominant force between northern Britain and Norway , so poised as to frustrate any German sortie into the North Sea . |
| 15 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 16 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 17 | If this is done , the energy of the interface will not be greatly changed and to remove the hardened liquid mechanically will now need strain energy and therefore a mechanical force . |
| 18 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 19 | To hold a meeting to educate those who do not feel well enough informed and to allow the free flow of debate on all the issues . |
| 20 | Much worse to begin too soon and realize one is inadequately prepared than to begin too late and realize one is over-prepared . |
| 21 | Insulin doses were not altered throughout the study except to ensure ( on the basis of the home blood glucose test results ) that glycaemic control was not altered or to avoid unacceptable hypoglycaemia ( mainly during the run in phase ) . |
| 22 | At the time of publishing our brochure , most of the dates and artists are still not arranged and to help you find your way through the information maze , we have set up our own Jazz Club ‘ All That Jazz ’ , ( membership is free ) . |
| 23 | At the Labour Party Conference of 1957 , it was generally accepted that to give up the independent nuclear deterrent would disable a future Labour government from pursuing a foreign policy not approved by Washington . |
| 24 | Privately , however , he was still sending conflicting signals to his supporters , some of whom got the impression that he had not decided whether to act . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal held that he was not guilty when he had not decided whether to use it or not . |
| 26 | ‘ I have not decided whether to appeal because I have not yet officially been informed as to why I have been fined ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Clough has not decided whether to retain Crossley for Saturday 's game against QPR , but he will be under pressure to give Andrew Marriott a chance until Freidle 's work permit is granted . ’ |
| 28 | He maintains he 's doing ‘ a lot less blood and guts ’ although that 's difficult to believe as he chats of chopping off an arm of a ‘ volunteer ’ from the audience , although theatregoers may escape being sawn in half : ‘ I am not decided whether to saw a young lady from the audience or myself . |
| 29 | He says Alsys has not decided whether to make Soft Bench or Atherton the backplane of the Thomson Ada software engineering thrust . |
| 30 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |