Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humiliated enough and ready to dig in her heels , Flavia said , ‘ What 's bad about it ? |
| 2 | Although the blockading squadrons very rarely saw the French they had daily and hourly to struggle with rope and canvas and timber which stretched and broke and rotted . |
| 3 | Their epoxy , Kevlar , carbon and foam construction is virtually bullet-proof ; it floats and is all but impossible to dispose of . |
| 4 | The Queen 's quiet and consistently efficient carrying out of her royal duties is not perhaps as easy to relate to as the more relaxed and smiling image of the ‘ Queen Mum ’ . |
| 5 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |
| 6 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 7 | Thus , selecting cases needs to be done on the basis of theoretically informed criteria rather than those to do with representativeness . |
| 8 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 9 | It takes Jane no longer than that to come from Thirsk . |
| 10 | Because the procedure can not apply to development already started and it is generally as quick to apply for actual permission if the planning authority 's officer advises that it is necessary , this does not get as much use as might be expected . |
| 11 | 5.4.1 To repair the Premises and keep them in repair excepting damage caused by structural or inherent defects or by an Insured Risk other than where the insurance money is irrecoverable in consequence of any act or default of the Tenant or anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority ( but only while under the Tenant 's control and in the course of employment ) Provided that where the insurance money is not wholly irrecoverable such sums as are recoverable shall be made available as soon as possible to apply to the repair of the Premises |
| 12 | Although the newspaper will not be available until May , please could members apply as soon as possible to help with gauging print quantities . |
| 13 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 14 | One of her contacts had breathed the information down the telephone and she had clambered aboard Perfidia , her professional charm switching itself on and eager to deal with any obstacles between her curiosity and The Truth . |
| 15 | Still buzzing from the morning , I was more than delighted to sunbathe in the sand and pine-needles . |
| 16 | But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves . |
| 17 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 18 | There was more than enough to see to , domestically . |
| 19 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 20 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 21 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 22 | Last time she was the agent for the then-MP , Mr Ian Wrigglesworth , and she was more than willing to step into his shoes . |
| 23 | Keith was impressed with the integrity of the conditions at Newark and was more than happy to come to a loan agreement . |
| 24 | Yet there is no trace of arrogance in his writings or pronouncements , and for those who could track him down , there was a man who was more than ready to mull over the ideas of lesser mortals . |
| 25 | This , perhaps , might not go down too well in Scotland where he will find firms of chartered surveyors more than ready to rise to the challenge . |
| 26 | After a hot mess-tin full of oxtail soup , I was more than ready to get into any old slit trench to have some desperately needed sleep . |
| 27 | In a post-imperial age it has shown a vitality more than sufficient to live to itself . |
| 28 | Darcy was out on the links in Jersey yesterday and unable to come to the phone , but a member of the team of architects working on the project dismisses fears that the site will be ruined . |
| 29 | Lawren was therefore well off and able to indulge in his favourite pastime of painting . |
| 30 | Attitudes to school , the significance of the curriculum , perceptions of the nature of society … are learned early and impossible to reshape in classrooms which are run by teachers who are unaware that such tensions exist . |