Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twin Oaks , one of the backmarkers on the first circuit , ran on remarkably well to finish fifth without ever looking likely to take a hand in the finish . |
| 2 | They moved to a flat in Kensington that Ken financed for them — to the point that he made Carry On Regardless solely to recoup some of his losses . |
| 3 | It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides . |
| 4 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hi , Mr Angel , ’ she said , stretching her legs together just enough to produce static electricity . |
| 6 | It seems to me that we are having to fight all over again to keep many things that we have already fought for and gained in the past . |
| 7 | The same is true of Russian and French , where reflexive structures are relied on much more heavily to fulfil similar functions . |
| 8 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 9 | We do not have to go quite so far afield to find another language which still plays a considerable part in our daily conversation . |
| 10 | I mean , there 's not enough there yet to do any real good with . |
| 11 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 12 | It is not enough just to have that prioritised list . |
| 13 | As with any catalogue , it 's not enough just to add new items to attract new customers — the items already there have to be reviewed and updated to make sure that they continue to meet today 's needs and standards . |
| 14 | He felt that it was not enough merely to preserve isolated buildings , but that their setting should be protected and improved as well . |
| 15 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 16 | Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly . |
| 17 | He peered out just long enough to see distant trees sweeping by much too fast , and stuck his head down again . |
| 18 | I stopped at the Duke of Wellington — a scruffy corner boozer off Union Street — just long enough to buy two cheese rolls and a can of low-al lager to go . |
| 19 | Just enough to make sure Okay , maybe not a difficult as that one was , just enough really to make sure that you knew how to do the calculations . |
| 20 | I could not bring myself to suggest that she was not likely to live much longer , certainly not long enough to make either course imprudent . |
| 21 | Fortunately this is seldom actually the case with practical materials because , in order to produce a new fracture surface , we have generally not only to break all the chemical bonds at the fracture surface ( which requires only the free surface energy ) , we also disturb the molecular structure of the material to a depth which is sometimes very considerable ; in doing so we break a great many other bonds as well . |
| 22 | A good designer/printer should be there to advise , remembering that design is not just there to look pretty , but there to sell a product . |
| 23 | But the difference is not stark enough to warrant definitive assertions that there would be ‘ no winners ’ in a nuclear war . |
| 24 | I said I did n't and also , no , I was not short of cash — or at least not short enough to get involved in Trippy 's own line of import/export . |
| 25 | doing it the same way each time and a reef knot is the opposite way each time , alright , undo it , once again , just once again to make sure you know are you ready ? |
| 26 | The majority of c.c.d.s have around 500 stages , which is just about enough to give some sort of reverberation effect . |
| 27 | Winds of force 5 and more do blow , but not often enough to advertise this as a big wind resort . |
| 28 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 29 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 30 | Not even enough to do that . |