Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was brilliant at invective , and making general statements about the need to communicate a politically responsible set of values , but neither he nor any of his friends were screenwriters , nor were they motivated to work with writers on ideas that were their own . |
| 2 | This ritual of identification was used to preface a more titillating by-line : MY BEDROOM BATTLE WITH THE FOX Pages 23 , 24 and 25 . |
| 3 | She 'd just managed to catch a joyously soaked Ethel when a blond man with a flat cap pulled over his straight nose asked her if she 'd like to sit in his Land-Rover . |
| 4 | One afternoon after an especially long session she was forced to catch a much later bus home than usual . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're going to try a little Siberian Magic . |
| 6 | She decided to try a more placatory approach . |
| 7 | Gritting his teeth against this insolence , needing to know more , Edward decided to try a more direct approach . |
| 8 | The latest developments , which are part of the transition from a state welfare model to that of a mixed economy , are likely to attract a similarly modest level of investment in monitoring and evaluation , and as a consequence we will certainly learn a great deal less from the reforms than might otherwise be the case . |
| 9 | By bringing it out as an A-format , £4.99 , mass-market paperback we hope to attract a much wider readership . |
| 10 | Southern coast seaside resorts also improved through their ability to attract a more balanced age structure . |
| 11 | THE Alton Careers Advisory Service are dramatically reorganising their activities as part of a nationwide campaign to attract a more diverse range of clients . |
| 12 | In no way a carbon copy of the Windows application , the DOS package has its own features and failings destined to attract a very different audience . |
| 13 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 14 | Lower labour mobility than elsewhere combines with this effect to keep salaries down and , crucially , to encourage a relatively high investment in training . |
| 15 | In the preceding chapters there is a lot of advice about how to apply systems ideas , but , to encourage a more complete understanding , it has been necessary to surround this advice with detailed explanations and examples . |
| 16 | The managerialist tradition has produced numerous attempts at budgetary reform designed to encourage a more technical appraisal of spending choices , in order to produce longer-term spending plans and management systems that link the goals of departments to outcomes or success ( Novick , 1965 ; Schick , 1966 ; Goldman , 1973 ; Cmnd 9058 , 1983 ; Likierman , 1988 ; OECD , 1987a ) . |
| 17 | The House of Commons Committee on Education , Science and Arts ( Education , Science and Arts Committee , 1981 ) was also concerned about the way subject traditions defend their own patch , with the result that pupils receive an offering of a series of unrelated specialisms , and it was anxious to encourage a more holistic consideration of the curriculum . |
| 18 | The wave should be very steep to encourage a more vertical flight as you take off . |
| 19 | Engineers thus need to explain their role to encourage a more positive view of the profession . |
| 20 | Probably the major contribution has been and will continue to be to encourage a more realistic and informed approach to social problems and matters of social policy . |
| 21 | The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society in Britain , for instance , has produced an information package for hospitals to attempt both to encourage a more sensitive approach by hospital staff to the management of stillbirth cases ( such as in disposing of the body ) and to increase the chance that families will rapidly be put in touch with their organisation . |
| 22 | Does the Minister think that it is now time to implement the proposals in the report ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ to introduce social loans , to take more stringent action against loan sharks who exploit poor people by their extortionate interest rates and to encourage a more responsible lending policy by banks ? |
| 23 | One of the desired effects of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission 's Beer Sector Report of 1989 was to encourage a more open and competitive environment . |
| 24 | Instead of paying a farmer something like £200 a year to grow unwanted cereals on a hectare of land , a similar sum would be paid to encourage a more desirable land use . |
| 25 | The increasing sophistication of urban demands for consumer goods such as pots and ironwork for house-building , the problems brought about by the steady withdrawal from continental sources of supply and the need for stronger defences , combined with the entrepreneurial spirit of many local landlords and the increased flow of capital from farming and trading profits to encourage a very rapid development indeed . |
| 26 | The Consultants at least have to recognise , they could n't fix that the closure of was strongly opposed but it was a mystery to all of us except obviously Mr on the December how they were unable to nevertheless , to accept a little dissimilar rejection of part of my and the associated increased in the despite the fact that seven different people are of the same several different people same margin Mr but not . |
| 27 | Liaison with the marketing department is important to ensure that the productive effort is meeting the customer 's needs , or , where there are difficulties in production , ensuring that the customer is informed and/or is prepared to accept a slightly different standard or quality of product , for example . |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia , by far the largest producer in OPEC , resisted pressure to accept a proportionally larger share of any cuts which were to be made in overall OPEC production . |
| 29 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 30 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |