Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 2 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 3 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 4 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 5 | The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils . |
| 6 | The worker was eventually to benefit from better conditions of work ; for the moment , electricity probably affected him most by providing transport for travel to his work from greater distances . |
| 7 | Is English law right to define rape in this way , and thereby to exclude from this offence such conduct as forced oral sex ( fellatio ) , cunnilingus , and buggery ? |
| 8 | After the intensive twelve months support with the project , girls need somewhere to come with any problems that may occur later . |
| 9 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 10 | Initially , he sounded reasonable enough to appeal to some Unionists , but then he started discussing joint administration as an option . |
| 11 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 12 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 13 | The American pair built a seemingly impregnable 6-1 , 4-0 lead , only to lose in three dramatic sets . |
| 14 | He 's probably a prosperous American businessman prosperous enough to go to international conventions : try all the American and international reference books in our library then the London Library . |
| 15 | Melanie was furious , and desperate enough to go to any lengths to terminate the pregnancy . |
| 16 | Drying time : most of the fabric was dry enough to wear within three hours in a warm room , but the elasticated waistband and cotton pockets took considerably longer . |
| 17 | Labour 's National Investment Bank , operating on strictly commercial lines , will bring public and private sector together to invest in long-term regional and national infrastructure projects . |
| 18 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 19 | This makes it well suited to road use while it is still sturdy enough to cope with bumpy paths and tracks . |
| 20 | If she denied fitzAlan 's story so she could have the solar to herself , she would become lost in a morass of other lies and explanations , and her mind was n't clear enough to cope with such a task . |
| 21 | It is recommended that your database is large enough to cope with current LIFESPAN data plus an allocation for future data . |
| 22 | ‘ I think the squad is good enough to cope with any injuries we might suffer . |
| 23 | The bandwidth of such a system is wide enough to cope with high-definition television which requires around 30 MHz , instead of 8 MHz , per channel . |
| 24 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 25 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 26 | does she agree that there 's something bizarre in er I certainly agree successful experiment it bringing to an end because it 's a successful experiment , er clearly the policy is only to continue with unsuccessful experiments . |
| 27 | Two large hotels , the Victoria and the Royal appeared , to accommodate those who flocked to take the waters for the treatment of rheumatism , or merely to holiday in this new , unusual and tranquil place . |
| 28 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 29 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 30 | Although the technology is available now , it will not be launched commercially until the first quarter of 1994 , because Ms Burke said , she wanted to be sure the company was geared up sufficiently to cope with any demands made on it . |