Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith favours the view that decisive policing will most effectively quell the rioting , but concedes that premature intervention may well generate uncontrollable panic . |
| 2 | They are the most powerful because they can most effectively expose the discipline for what it is . |
| 3 | But suppose that the creditor accepts the debtor 's old car in satisfaction of a debt of £2,000 , protesting that he would much rather have the cash and eventually taking the car only because there seems to be no hope of anything better . |
| 4 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 5 | From Oakeshott we can perhaps better appreciate the concepts of authority , liberty , and law which pervade normativist thought . |
| 6 | Now , for pride , she would not crop it , she would not so much mark the occasion , but instead wore it always inside some sort of covering , hidden away . |
| 7 | The new terms will give sponsoring trade associations and chambers of commerce greater freedom of choice in how DTI trade fair support is spent , and so better match the needs of exhibitors . |
| 8 | In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis . |
| 9 | It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge . |
| 10 | Then Louie grins and says : ‘ He is welcome to drink here but he 'd better not choose the chair with its back to the door . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd better not mention the Bank 's name , just in case they do n't like it . |
| 12 | What the obstetrician was calling ‘ a birth you 'd better not tell the Guardian about ’ . |
| 13 | That 's why I do n't want I 'd better not fold the paper-until I 've worked out my ideas a bit more . ’ |
| 14 | Will the Minister bear it in mind that if he wants to get rid of toxic waste in Northern Ireland , he had better not employ the services of the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ? |
| 15 | They were laughing again when he said , ‘ Well , I 'd better not take the shag . |
| 16 | ‘ If you believe that , sir , ’ said Mark with as much politeness as he could muster , ‘ you will naturally not share the concern I have expressed in my papers . |
| 17 | The contract will somewhat quaintly oblige the seller to unfasten as many assets as possible to make them movable . |
| 18 | Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest . |
| 19 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |
| 20 | Yes , we 'd better just approve the minutes of the meeting process , of the last meeting first of all , had n't we lads ? |
| 21 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 22 | He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him . |
| 23 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
| 24 | John 's fee was his first professional one and would only just cover the expenses of presenting the act . |
| 25 | You 'd only just multiply the thing , you 'd spill petrol on an already burning flame . |
| 26 | Patrick and Jim could only just overhear the conversation that ensued , in quick-fire French . |
| 27 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 28 | Because of the remarkable contours of the ground , a fielder in the deep can only just see the tops of the heads of his teammates . |
| 29 | They will not so easily recognise the lives that you have saved . |
| 30 | There can be no reliable estimate that — ’ 10 per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe ’ , because Spanish Americans and Anglo Americans far from rich , can so easily convert the soil from beneath their feet into walls around new rooms , and they do this regularly with their own hands in enlarging their houses . |