Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents , friends and students came along to see the many activities and interests available to the mentally handicapped in this part of Kent . |
| 2 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 3 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 4 | Now she had arrived in East Africa only to find the same grim process being repeated — but with one significant difference . |
| 5 | Then the trouble would disappear and Robyn would heave a sigh of relief and smile at her luck , only to find the same thing happening a couple of miles down the road , and always after she 'd passed a garage or a phone box . |
| 6 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 7 | The path was narrow and climbed steeply between thickets of gorse which were in flower ; nothing to be compared with the dramatic spring show but enough to provide a few patches of welcome colour against the sombre background of the moor in November . |
| 8 | Indeed , if you want to find out how it was that Bonn at grew wealthy enough to buy the many works of art that he did , you need only go into the room reserved in the museum , on the ground floor , for his society portraits . |
| 9 | Grandfather had been rich enough to buy the many diamonds it took to make it up . |
| 10 | There is clearly enough to conceal a few mysteries as well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The inflation of land prices encouraged farmers who wanted to remain in the east to sell to the Commission only to buy the same land back again at a reduced price and pocket the difference . |
| 13 | I took up my pint as Jamie settled in to blast a few of the gaudy formations . |
| 14 | TIF , and many other types of file , all to do the same job ? |
| 15 | In writing an auto-biography or the story of my life , or the intimate journals or diary of myself , it would be well perhaps to give a few details concerning my birth ; a date or two might add a little dignity also . |
| 16 | The side , annihilated 22–0 by TUNISIA in the first round of the tournament , recovered well enough to give the same Tunisia a fright in the semi-finals of the Plate competition , the Etna Cup . |
| 17 | Of course the text looks pretty rough around the edges at 72dpi and the technology costs an small fortune but it 's certainly enough to turn a few heads . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't care , ’ he insisted , loudly enough to turn a few heads . |
| 19 | But does not this suggest that we have only to learn the same lesson over again ? |
| 20 | This Adrian Mole , however , does not have acne or a girl-friend called Pandora , but is just a poor PE2 student unfortunate enough to have the same name as Sue Townsend 's fictional horror . |
| 21 | ‘ Civil enough to supply a few of the home comforts my bachelor status denies me , perhaps ? ’ |
| 22 | If you are lucky enough to get a few rays of sunshine , you are still faced with the possibility of playing on frosty fairways in sub-freezing temperatures and having to pack your clubs away by 4pm when visibility declines . |
| 23 | ‘ On the Thursday you return to Streatley , to maintain the myth of your father 's continuing business interests ; and perhaps to check a few details with Dr Lefeuvre . |
| 24 | It did n't take her long to pack the few clothes she would need , even though her mind was far away in the past . |
| 25 | Even if they are deep enough to house a few aquatic plants , it would be unwise to do this , for when used for their proper purpose , water turbulence is such that none but the coarsest and most vigorous aquatics would survive . |
| 26 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 27 | They dive into the mist and vanish , only to reappear a few minutes later , some considerable distance away . |
| 28 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 29 | If the output effect is still strong enough to outweigh the latter effect , then w/r falls , and in the final equilibrium , is still higher . |
| 30 | You can teach other members of your family how to take care of the patient in this basic way , or professional ‘ babysitters ’ who can come in to spend a few hours with the patient so that you can get away . |