Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Too much control and predictability might eventually subvert the organizational goals .
2 Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole .
3 If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off !
4 Okay erm let's perhaps make a few comments then about the Vienna settlement itself .
5 When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’
6 Sometimes the image would only remain a few seconds .
7 This will not necessarily affect the annual charges on property where the trustees are resident outside the United Kingdom under paragraph 12 ( 2 ) of Schedule 5 .
8 So when we are thinking about helping bereaved people , instead of turning to emotional issues straightaway , we should perhaps consider the practical issues that the bereaved person is facing .
9 Applicants do not necessarily know the relative lengths of queues or their chances of obtaining housing in one sub-district rather than another .
10 Can this be the same tragic Lady Rothermere at whose inquest it was revealed had a stash of 2,000 pills lying round her French villa , who refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs and who was so exhilarated by her fast-moving lifestyle she could only survive the small hours by swallowing incautious numbers of sleeping tablets ?
11 It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip .
12 The debate on fox hunting has become unnecessarily complex and that can only suit the pro hunters because the basic objections to hunting are obscured .
13 The sudden release of many young into the savannah at the same time may perhaps swamp the waiting predators and thus constitute in itself a survival strategy .
14 It will not only include the functional constraints listed above , but will use the product control facility in order to ensure that changes maintain the integrity of the design .
15 ‘ You 'd better break a few rules . ’
16 We can only identify the proper criteria correctly if we accept that medical treatment in general ought to be divided , for our purposes , into two classes .
17 However , we agreed that self-help schemes could only bring a few jobs and that a central demand should still be that the state provide jobs .
18 We would argue that this does not give a clear explanation of the decision because the judgment is an after-the-event rationalization of the decision and does not necessarily give the real reasons for it .
19 However , the structure of attitudes does not only comprise the explicit justifications and criticisms which might be advanced by the attitude-holder .
20 Should we all do the same questions ?
21 A history which limits ‘ progress ’ to the sphere of a certain conceptualization of individuality can only see the collective associations of conventions and repetitions as regressive ; they represent the manipulative mould of mass society , together with a pseudo-archaism which that society uses to establish its historical credentials .
22 You can only see the splendid tapestries inside by appointment .
23 If you are not prepared to project it properly , it is most likely that people will only see the wrong parts !
24 Q Whilst still on double jacquard , can you only use the finer yarns ?
25 Volunteers need only provide a few hours of their time a week to be trained as a tutor .
26 R.2 also provides that a recognised body may only provide the professional services described above .
27 We can only provide the best conditions possible for this to happen .
28 And Peggy now patted her grandmother 's hand , saying , ‘ If one could only remember the nice things , the pleasant things , and let others go by ; but it 's always the reverse : the unpleasant things grow like weeds and choke any nice memory you might harbour . ’
29 The assignment of these categories need not necessarily follow the grammatical assignments ( e.g. , the object case need not be the syntactic object ) .
30 He was also attempting to persuade the Communist Party that they must better understand the primordial needs of the masses : the demand for personal security and sexuality .
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