Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be most interested to see a copy given our substantial interests in the effects of reorganisation . |
| 2 | The exceptions to the regulations are very limited and the question of whether it is medically inadvisable to wear a seat belt , considered in Froom v Butcher , for obese or pregnant plaintiffs , or in Mackay v Borthwick [ 1982 ] CLY 2157 where the plaintiff suffered from a hiatus hernia is probably pre-empted by para 5(d) of the regulations . |
| 3 | It would be extremely rash to add a pair of leleupi to a tank in which you have brichardi breeding . |
| 4 | It is somewhat refreshing to see a North-East industrialist make a success of his business in relative anonymity . |
| 5 | In contrast , case study materials aim to capture a real lesson as it happens in normal classroom conditions ( although it is never entirely normal to have a camera pointing at you while you go about your daily business . ) |
| 6 | Supplies of food ran sufficiently low to pose a threat as serious as invasion . |
| 7 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 8 | Part of the answer lies in the growth of an Irish Civil Rights movement , stimulated , in turn , by the emergence of a larger , better-educated Catholic middle class , less willing to accept a status of inferiority and blatant discrimination than earlier generations . |
| 9 | As Mann says , this may be acceptable if the only evidence consists of a ‘ one-sided dialogue ’ where the suspect refuses to answer any questions at all , but where some , a significant number perhaps , are answered , it may be highly impracticable to sever a conversation in this way and still expect a jury to make sense of it . |
| 10 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 11 | only go so high to do a course and she was on an F grade so she had to be taken down . |
| 12 | There was had to be a discreet list circulated naming those ( mainly ) Soviet Bloc officials in London with whom it was highly inadvisable to have a solo drink or dinner . |
| 13 | It 's so much easier to leave a child in the hands of a babysitter if you know that he or she will go to bed without fuss . |
| 14 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 15 | In one way the collector of autograph and manuscript material is at a disadvantage compared with his bibliophile brother , in that it is much easier to forge a letter than a book . |
| 16 | It is also much easier to create a market situation which will see to it that the value goes up . ’ |
| 17 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 18 | It is much easier to bury a problem than to consider whether our moral obligation lies elsewhere . |
| 19 | It is so much easier to prescribe a pill than to change the social conditions that may be responsible for the severity of the symptoms . |
| 20 | However , using the information about the clone order from hybridisation data it will be much easier to infer a restriction map of a genome ( and verify a hybridisation map in parallel ) from these results than to construct the complete two single-digest plus one double-digest map from individual restriction maps of each clone . |
| 21 | It is much easier to show a child how to draw , how to compose a Picture , how to use colour , than it is to allow the child full self expression . |
| 22 | Is it so wrong to want a bit of sympathy ? ’ |
| 23 | Make you feel glad you 've spent so much to put a daughter through college . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , the management is frequently entirely separate at World Championships and it would be little less appropriate to link a slalom World Championships to a canoe sailing World Championships , say . |
| 26 | be sufficiently autonomous to exercise a degree of flexibility ; |
| 27 | One review summed it up saying how we were ‘ classes better in every outfield position ’ , City were extremely fortunate to get a goal , let alone a point . |
| 28 | It is not so easy to destroy a waterway . |
| 29 | It would have been so easy to spend a couple of weeks lazing by one of the swimming pools doing absolutely nothing in this idyllic setting , but there was so much going on that I was tempted off my sunlounger . |
| 30 | But to show how ecumenical they were , they also once burnt an Archbishop of Canterbury ; several Prime Ministers ; Enoch Powell ; Richard Nixon ; Stalin ; all sorts of people , even poor Mr Heath , not so much because he was a villain but because it is so easy to make a guy in the semblance of Mr Heath . |