Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the devices seem to perform better the more they are miniaturised . |
| 2 | He had a clear picture of a sad and lonely man , deeply concerned about his health and dwelling on a future which seemed to promise only a fairly rapid decline into senility . |
| 3 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |
| 4 | The best that we seem to be able to say is that biological and psychological categories have tended to contain only a very small minority of offenders ( as well as a significant proportion of non-offenders ) , while sociological categories have contained a large majority of non-offenders ( and by no means all offenders ) . |
| 5 | My personal feeling is that , once cumulative selection has got itself properly started , we need to postulate only a relatively small amount of luck in the subsequent evolution of life and intelligence . |
| 6 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 7 | One is that policies which are focused primarily on small firms are likely to encourage only a relatively low level of technical innovation . |
| 8 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 9 | Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity . |
| 10 | The register of " form " as " template " seems to catch exactly the potentially creative status of the text whose full form will only be realised when it is enacted . |
| 11 | Dated 1656 and painted by the artist at twenty-five years of age , it depicts the ship ‘ De Esperanca ’ , which was rented by the Amsterdam Chamber of the East India Company to escort home the incredibly rich return fleet of Pieter de Bitter and other merchantmen which had sought refuge from the English in the port of Bergen , Norway . |
| 12 | Though Coenwulf 's ‘ empire ’ may look like Offa 's , therefore , the crisis of 796–8 had helped to establish possibly a less flexible regime and certainly one more insular in outlook . |
| 13 | At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways . |
| 14 | Besides which , there are some artists whom it is a pleasure to know even a little better from their letters . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , the most desperate measures were necessary to provide even the most slender chance of defeating the malevolent hordes . |
| 16 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 17 | While welcoming in principle the SIB 's recent proposals for simplification of the rules , Mr Bell said : ‘ Any changes , no matter how desirable , must however be implemented sensibly in order not to increase unnecessarily the already considerable costs of the regime , which in our case can only be borne by the policy holders . ’ |
| 18 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 19 | An own goal yes , but even so , the review group was set up to smooth away a little local difficulty . |
| 20 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 21 | At this stage we are only roughing-out our interview schedule , but the more attention we can give to detail now the more we are likely to be saving ourselves trouble later on . |
| 22 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 23 | The process is difficult , and demands the performance of millions of calculations to reach even the most elementary prediction . |
| 24 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 25 | She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life . |
| 26 | Although the result lacks the variety of texture claimed above for genuine Eckard , it happens to resemble closely the somewhat exceptional authentic but unascribed piece by that composer on p.100 , in which the same accompanimental figure runs almost uninterruptedly from beginning to end . |
| 27 | It is usually much more successful to choose either a very pale background that contrasts with medium to dark colours , or a very dark background that sets off very pale and silvery grey shades . |
| 28 | It is difficult to tease apart the chiefly race-caused problems from those caused by inner-city economics . |
| 29 | Those wishing to move into the ‘ South ’ may be unable to afford to buy a house or may be able to buy only a much smaller house with the money raised from their existing dwelling . |
| 30 | Further , that in recognition of this , you will see fit in this world of ever-growing gratuitous violence to help just a little by keeping your pages free from any future commentary or reportage of this activity which in no way deserves the name ‘ sport ’ . |