Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will mean so much just to play again . |
| 2 | But that Parliament has not met since 1706 and is extremely unlikely ever to meet again . |
| 3 | Which left her drowning , and groping for words — and only able merely to reply huskily , ‘ Thank you , Ven . ’ |
| 4 | They may be less inclined henceforth to do so . |
| 5 | Indeed , Gassendi acknowledges that ‘ in this matter it is especially difficult not to write satirically ’ . |
| 6 | Of course the fellow could shout , but the human voice is not loud enough to carry that far . |
| 7 | It is not possible here to say more about the different types of trust which are commonly created at the present time , nor of the powers and duties of the trustees , nor of the methods of administration . |
| 8 | It is not possible even to outline here the workings of the language . |
| 9 | You 're not old enough to shave yet , just give your hands a good wash and do n't leave a mark in the sink . |
| 10 | An antagonist is a substance which is similar enough to a neurotransmitter to occupy its receptors , but is not similar enough to fit perfectly and change the cell 's membrane potential , thereby blocking the receptor . |
| 11 | The assumption within the KMT was that the " old men " of the party would disappear by " natural processes " , but the election results suggested that these processes were not rapid enough to appease either the growing sense of Taiwanese nationalism in the country or the related impatience at the slow pace of democratization . |
| 12 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 13 | And then it is extremely difficult if you are not white not to become very angry with life it 's very difficult and then you hear that in Trafalgar Square someone demonstrated Canon or or Barbara and then you say no ! |
| 14 | HWIM and Hearsay-II 's acoustic and language models were not good enough to map accurately the relationship between the input and linguistic descriptions of the utterance . |
| 15 | Third rate ‘ IN the third ( division ) Southend have no problems scoring at home , but Sunderland were desperately unlucky not to go ahead on the half hour ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , the MEC does not advise the use of any insecticidal shampoo for the treatment of headlice ; it says that the contact time is not long enough to kill both lice and eggs , making repeat treatments necessary . |
| 17 | A single day is not long enough to illustrate fully the roles played , or the variety of jobs undertaken by the UK Infantry Battalion of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) — AMF(L) . |
| 18 | The City is no longer confident enough to pay blithely for a new trading system being developed by consultants at Arthur Andersen . |
| 19 | The Company was not powerful enough to go inland and kidnap slaves , and had great difficulty keeping up its coastal garrisons in the unpleasant and unhealthy conditions in which they lived , but in any case , military expeditions to capture slaves were unnecessary . |
| 20 | It was the marginal cultivators that took land on rabassa morta , who found tithes and feudal dues an intolerable burden , and they were not powerful enough to challenge either the large farmers or the aristocrats from whom they held their lands . |
| 21 | They 're not big enough to prune yet . |
| 22 | The company feels that the 84,000 sq ft store is not big enough to develop further and is concentrating its investment in premises of more than 120,000 sq ft . |
| 23 | Rose did it well ; she was just young enough to get away with it . |
| 24 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 25 | The Watch were always careful not to intervene too soon in any brawl where the odds were not heavily stacked in their favour . |
| 26 | 1842 : a ) Women , girls & boys under 10 not to work underground . |
| 27 | Autumn is an excellent time for this kind of construction work , when the weather is still mild enough to work outdoors in comfort , and there are relatively few urgent jobs to do in the garden . |
| 28 | Cursive script is the mode in which a person normally writes text but is more difficult still to recognise automatically . |
| 29 | For the most part Great Russians were fighting Great Russians , and in the process trampled over the lands of peasants , whether Russian , Belorussian , Ukrainian , etc. , none of whom was more inclined thereafter to feel particularly attracted to Muscovite patriotism . |
| 30 | They 're still young enough to rely wholly on you , but mobile enough to want a certain amount of independence . |