Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that is to ignore the possible effect of indecent displays on the unwary viewer , which may be to invade the realm of the most private emotions and to play on these in an unsettling and intrusive fashion , utterly without permission . |
| 2 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 3 | However , the finance company will often require the dealer to take on further obligations and to enter into a recourse agreement . |
| 4 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 5 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 6 | He began attending evening classes in the Mechanics ' Institute and ‘ thereby developed the gifts of teaching and speaking , and habits of thought and reading , with so much success as to mark him out as one called of God ’ . |
| 7 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 8 | In view of the serious incident that took place last night in Bradford , may we have a statement on the working of the Act to examine the possibility of a licensing system to curb even further the possession of such potentially highly dangerous weapons and to prevent a repetition of last night 's attack ? |
| 9 | I haven 's seen the film but I can imagine that it would be a great advantage to be shown the highly symbolic garden and to breathe the house 's atmosphere of sunny perversity . |
| 10 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 11 | In the near future I intend to expand this unholy alliance into a much larger tank and to try a few experiments with the set-up and some new species which I 'll no doubt relate if they 're successful . |
| 12 | Stern ( 1983 ) argued that a good pedagogical theory — or as adult educators would say a good andragogical one — would enable us to view language teaching in a much better perspective and to recognize its relationship with other kindred activities . |
| 13 | The food she ate made you grow too , so she was very careful to eat only good food and to take nothing that might harm her little baby . |
| 14 | What you do expect is a car removed from all others in so many ways that to judge by normal criteria is to tell only half the story . |
| 15 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 16 | The C152 flight manual allows a safety factor , and advises pilots to keep mixture rich when climbing below 3,000 feet but to lean above it . |
| 17 | ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine . |
| 18 | The basic idea is extended , however , to keep track of a constantly changing picture and to detect those elements in it which do not change . |
| 19 | As we have said many times in this section , ‘ wholesale ’ deals are often done on extremely small commissions or to profit from extremely small interest rate differentials . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu knew Lenin 's dictum , ‘ trust is good but control is better ’ , and ordered the Securitate to send in new informers and to recruit more from among the existing workforce as well . |
| 21 | The absence of any such shared background with an outside organization makes it imperative to formalize procedures to a much greater extent and to provide more information specific to the work to be carried out . |
| 22 | So it looks as if our coal members are being forced to fund the government subsidy there ca n't be much nastier behaviour than to pay your own money to get the government off the hook of making your own members and your colleagues redundant . |
| 23 | Most of them , protected by their voluntary-aided status , resisted for twenty years and more all attempts to change their fiercely academic character or to entangle them in vague schemes of amalgamation or co-operation with secondary modern schools . |
| 24 | The many and varied attempts by governments both to take over foreign assets and to set up new state-owned businesses , have seldom been successful . |
| 25 | Revusky ( 1971 ) call his theory a concurrent interference theory to emphasize just this point and to distinguish it from another commonly held interpretation of proactive interference . |
| 26 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 27 | The significance of this fact will be dealt with later ; suffice it to say here that the effect of the listing arrived at by the formulators of the received tradition is to raise this perfectly acceptable and important generalization to the status of an unbroken rule , to smooth away all complications and to present a perfectly articulated chain of Muftis , all of whom remained in office until their deaths . |
| 28 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |
| 29 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 30 | Each is eager to present himself as the most qualified man to head off protectionist measures and to restore Japan 's good name , which lately has been looking a little tarnished . |