Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 2 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 3 | In Mexico , where 51 per cent of farm units are infra-subsistence , that is , not big enough to support a peasant family , the peasant must find other forms of income ( Stavenhagen 1974 ) . |
| 4 | The ITA decided to split the Northern region into separate Lancashire and Yorkshire franchises , each of which would be large enough to support a network company , increasing the number of these to five . |
| 5 | My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist . |
| 6 | A Buckingham Palace spokesman said he would be well enough to attend a promenade concert at London 's Royal Albert Hall tonight — and is expected to make a full recovery in seven to 10 days . |
| 7 | How many of us have felt interested enough to attend a Building Society A.G.M. provided we are receiving the interest on our deposits we think we are entitled to ? |
| 8 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 9 | SHOCKED David Salt spent £700 on a dream garden — only to see a 20ft crater open up and swallow his flowers and lawn . |
| 10 | In 1884 New Zealand was lucky enough to acquire a railway architect and engineer who had been trained in Scotland . |
| 11 | It 's just a tiny fortyfooter , hardly room enough to swing a champagne bottle . |
| 12 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |
| 13 | Now , and , and all these go together to provide a bill rate which is what we actually get paid , is n't it ? |
| 14 | With SARFU unification accomplished in South Africa , French moved swiftly to secure a Wallaby tour to South Africa for this year . |
| 15 | In Women , Power and Politics part of our argument was that legislation is not enough to establish a gender order in which women are seen as the equals of men . |
| 16 | I have argued so far that people who are highly likely to experience an event with implications severe enough to provoke a depressive illness can sometimes be identified . |
| 17 | Father-of-two Patch wears his hair long to hide a hearing aid and lip-reads when filming . |
| 18 | If they 're not lucky enough to find a hostel place , they end up in bed and breakfast accommodation , without the support that a hostel provides . |
| 19 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |
| 20 | The Doctor decides to talk to Bennett in his cabin , but when the man tells him to go away he forces open the door — only to find a tape recorder and an escape hatch door in the floor . |
| 21 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 22 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 23 | So to provide a back-up service , Rekord has built a ‘ Chopper Clinic ’ at its Atherstone , Warwicks , base . |
| 24 | A group of software developers are getting together to create a demo CD/ROM of their software for SCO Forum this summer . |
| 25 | At the Metropolitan , disparate objects were brought together to create a period setting . |
| 26 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 27 | When people came in to choose a light fitting , how often do you think that they considered what they wanted the light for , or whether they liked , or whether they choose it because they liked the style of the design of the light fitting ? |
| 28 | It is only fair to add that some lawyers play exactly the opposite role , persuading clients who are itching for a zero sum fight that they would do better to reach a nonzero sum settlement out of court . |
| 29 | By 1665 he was wealthy enough to own a country house with thirteen acres in Earl 's Court . |
| 30 | It 's all polished and pacy enough to titillate a teen audience , but it 's idle hackwork from writer-director Bruce A. Evans and writer-producer Raynold Gideon , whose previous screenwriting credits included the promising Stand By Me and Starman . |