Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was disappointing to note that the modern dressings , which were not available to DNs in 1979 , appear to have reduced the popularity of paste bandages and non-medicated tulles , while doing little to counteract the possibly damaging inappropriate use of antiseptics , antibiotics and steroids . |
| 2 | Comparison with the 1979 LFV survey showed , however , that modern dressings had reduced the popularity of tried and tested paste bandages while doing little to counteract the possibly damaging use of antiseptics , antibiotics and corticosteroids , still used on 21 per cent of EHA , and 18 per cent of PNK leg ulcers . |
| 3 | Few were large enough to support the very specialised and restrictive craft gilds of the greater regional centres . |
| 4 | Concern exists that once a threshold of a certain concentration of chlorine in the Arctic stratosphere has been passed , a large Arctic ozone hole will become a regular spring feature which will grow and deepen annually to affect the highly populated regions of northern Europe . |
| 5 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 6 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |
| 7 | The hide is a good place to spend some time , not only to see the more common bird species such as heron , coot and several kinds of tit , but you might also be lucky enough to spot less common birds such as the great spotted woodpecker and the kingfisher . |
| 8 | Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well-hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . |
| 9 | If James was right and they could count on contingents from every part of the strath , they would be a force indeed — a mass big enough to frighten the most assured gentleman . |
| 10 | Perhaps their probosces are not long enough to reach the most succulent parts of the prey by any other means . |
| 11 | I reminded myself that if Conchis was rich enough to own Modiglianis and Bonnards , he was rich enough to pick the very best in mistresses . |
| 12 | The thrill was out of all proportion to the event , of course , and serves only to reflect the overwhelmingly domesticated aspect of much British countryside , dominated as it is by cows and sheep , as well as some of what historian Keith Thomas has called ‘ our anti-urban bias ’ . |
| 13 | The optional power system should be considered essential , if only to avoid the seriously slow ( 4.6 turns lock to lock , and vague with it ) manual steering that 's listed as standard . |
| 14 | The pier has friends — what pier does n't these days — but is it strong enough to withstand the seemingly inexorable demographic tides sweeping through the town ? |
| 15 | Although rougher and hairier in texture than wool and man-made carpet and not so soft or luxurious , they come in good colours — the natural shades are particularly attractive — and are tough enough to withstand the most active family on its feet . |
| 16 | To obey the rules of the genre of the ‘ introductory account ’ , to use the rhetoric of exposition is , in a sense , necessarily to betray the most interesting insights of ‘ Derrida ’ . |
| 17 | The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners . |
| 18 | Streets Ahead is lively enough to keep the most weary students interested , motivated , and even — dare we say it ? — entertained . |
| 19 | After a two hour pause to explore , swim and eat , the return journey will almost always be a brisk and adventurous sail , exhilarating enough to satisfy the most experienced sailor . |
| 20 | Colville is candid enough to recognize the highly unorthodox expedients — unorthodox in constitutional terms — to which he and Christopher Soames , Churchill 's son-in-law and Parliamentary Private Secretary , resorted while the old man was out of action . |
| 21 | They are less obtrusive than they might have been , but quite enough to dissipate the historically accurate atmosphere that is called for . |
| 22 | Though , parenthetically , I might note that there is plausible evidence enough to convince the most liberal of minds that such policies do operate ( see for instance , Lee and Wrench , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | But for the majority of us there 's enough to get the best out of most effects in most playing situations . |
| 24 | It needs to be powerful , yet flexible enough to get the most out of the network and provide maximum business benefits . |
| 25 | Gloucester City Council says the code of conduct is n't meant to discourage busking , only to get the best from street entertainers . |
| 26 | Britain 's toughest young offenders prison has been criticised for not being secure enough to take the most dangerous inmates . |
| 27 | For however inaccurate the figures are , their inaccuracies can not have increased sufficiently to explain the sharply deteriorating trend of the balance of payments over the last few years . |
| 28 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 29 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 30 | Small enough for a coach party to whip through in half an hour , but good enough to occupy the more patient visitor for an afternoon or more , the princely town house stands beside a broad pond in the heart of the city . |