Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much simpler to station an interviewer at a busy part of a town and have her interview people who are passing by . |
| 2 | ‘ Local interpretation ’ probably relates to another strategy which instructs the hearer / reader to do as little processing as possible , only to construct a representation which is sufficiently specific to permit an interpretation which is adequate for what the hearer judges the purpose of the utterance to be . |
| 3 | However , current consumption must be kept sufficiently low to provide an acceptably long battery life . |
| 4 | " 63 By then Leavis had retired and , although L. C. Knights had been appointed Regius Professor , the ideal of practical criticism seemed no longer sufficiently strong to provide an adequate focus for " intellectual and imaginative " work . |
| 5 | It is obviously easier to make an appointment with an individual than organize a group , although once a format programme has been decided , handouts printed , and a venue organized , most of the other organizational tasks can be carried out by clerical and secretarial staff . |
| 6 | Here she hit wood for her second when it would have been less risky to try an iron , and after finding trouble in sand , ended up taking ‘ six ’ , the first time all week she had failed to make par on the hole . |
| 7 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 8 | It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing . |
| 9 | It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena . |
| 10 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 11 | It was not , however , so easy to persuade an angry , kicking woman even as tiny as Ashi to go through without a desperate struggle . |
| 12 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 13 | It was no longer so easy to remain an island of reason when every timber surrounding us had been magically selected ; when our departure had been synchronized not with the weather , but with inner portents of another kind of time . |
| 14 | Why is he not restrained — by Simon Peter , for example , who , only a short time later , is not only armed , but also sufficiently violent to attack an attendant of the High Priest ? |
| 15 | This simultaneously recognises that the community interest in the assertion of a violation of a norm of jus cogens is sufficiently serious to justify an authoritative decision from the International Court , while rejecting the right of all States to apply for such a ruling . |
| 16 | ‘ I bought it second-hand and I was so thrilled to own an electric guitar ; that guitar meant so much to me . |
| 17 | Use one of the proprietary woodworm injectors for this , as their special nozzles are designed to fit the holes and you are less likely to risk an eyeful of the fluid . |
| 18 | Working-class families , by contrast , are less likely to provide an environment that encourages scholastic skills . |
| 19 | However , when these figures are broken down , it can be seen that certain groups , such as single women over 75 , are less likely to have an occupational pension , and , if they do , the average amount is less . |
| 20 | The ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ dreaded by the authorities would also be less likely to have an impact . |
| 21 | The older groups are less likely to have contributed to such a scheme while they were in the labour force , and are therefore less likely to have an occupational pension . |
| 22 | If you do this when you are solo , you will be less likely to skip an item or become careless about the checks when you are more experienced . |
| 23 | A very distant object has to be extremely large to produce an image of appreciable size . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) those whose circumstances make them highly likely to experience an event to which they are particularly vulnerable ; |
| 25 | I have argued so far that people who are highly likely to experience an event with implications severe enough to provoke a depressive illness can sometimes be identified . |
| 26 | It was not until the middle of 1916 that he felt sufficiently confident to offer an olive branch to the employers . |
| 27 | Taking as its basic premise the principle that courses of higher education should be made available to all those able and willing to benefit from them , it affirmed its belief that the pool of ability , especially among girls , who at that time were grossly under-represented in higher education , was sufficiently deep to warrant an expansion in the numbers of full-time and sandwich students in higher education in England , Scotland and Wales from 216,000 in 1962–3 to 390,000 in 1973–4 and 560,000 in 1980–1 . |
| 28 | Quietly she asked , ‘ Is it so terrible to let an unhappy or humiliated woman forget , for a few hours , the problems that she will probably have to put up with for her whole life ? ’ |
| 29 | Meanwhile , tax revenue was sufficiently buoyant to sustain an expansion of social service provision . |
| 30 | By contrast with the north-east , Dyfed is not sufficiently industrialized to support an institution offering advanced vocational courses . |