Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 2 | Pistoliers are young nobles , knights ' sons who are not old or experienced enough to win their spurs or join the Reiksguard . |
| 3 | If an aggravation occurs i.e. an intensification of the original symptoms , at the end of treatment , then the doses must be reduced in quantity and repeated at longer intervals , or stopped altogether to see if the symptoms will continue to disappear by themselves . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's got a nasty enough temper — I just do n't myself see her as clever or organized enough to cover her tracks . |
| 5 | On all copies of the Work rendered into bilingual editions , or adapted specially to suit the educational requirements and syllabus of particular countries a royalty to be negotiated and based on the Publisher 's net receipts |
| 6 | It is Vic 's impression that English wildlife is getting streetwise , moving from the country into the city where the living is easier — where there are no traps , pesticides , hunters and sportsmen , but plenty of well-stocked garbage bins , and housewives like Marjorie , softhearted or softheaded enough to throw their scraps into the garden , creating animal soup-kitchens . |
| 7 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 8 | Single-celled animals may have their pigments scattered , or gathered together to form an eye-spot in the cell . |
| 9 | Belinda gulped her juice and followed him obediently , too aware of him as he stood back to make way for her , or strode ahead to open a door , the taut muscles in arms and thighs revealed by his economical movements . |
| 10 | He had seen nothing in her lifestyle and her actions which led him to believe that she was then or wished again to become a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 11 | The survey was not detailed , comprehensive or controlled enough to investigate a geographical link to air pollution even if the right pollution data were available . |
| 12 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 13 | Megaliths were smashed to make gate-posts or road-stone , blown up or pushed aside to clear space for the plough . |
| 14 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it is fair to say ’ , mused Abrams , that everyone involved in the RIG ( the Restricted Inter-agency Group that met regularly to discuss policy in Latin America ) knew that Ollie was somehow connected with this but did n't know why … |
| 16 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 17 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
| 18 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 19 | Between moves 9 and 13 , he adopted a convoluted plan that seemed only to tangle his own pieces . |
| 20 | It was the post-conciliar Church that came increasingly to recognize this as the norm , at least for smaller congregations . |
| 21 | The attendant promotion of civic identity secured the alliance around a complex discourse articulating notions of localism , utilitarianism , paternalism and individualism into a unified whole that came subsequently to lead working-class opinion when it mounted its most concerted opposition . |
| 22 | The diversity of organizations and associations that joined together to form Gold EIA shows how widespread concern had become ( see table 3.2 ) . |
| 23 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 24 | The salesperson may pre-empt the objection in the following manner : ‘ My company is smaller than most in the industry which means that we respond quicker to our customers ’ needs and try that bit harder to make sure our customers are happy . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , no , laddie , I am well served , I that thought just to serve my man ! |
| 26 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 27 | Where his friend Charles Williams had achieved only phantasmal fictions that struggled implausibly to marry realism and the supernatural , Lewis turned that improbable formula into stories that compel attention . |
| 28 | They neither cared nor dared explicitly to challenge this picture , as the pro-imperialists among the Germans had done . |
| 29 | Just something that ignited enough to get a flame onto his seat . |
| 30 | There , lying among trilobites , brachiopods and bristle worms , in the mud of the seas of 550 million years ago that had yet to see a finned or backboned swimmer , has been found the impression of a creature very similar indeed to the living lancelet . |