Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year there were some , so the Liberal Democrats took the view that we could only properly set a budget at the capping level and that is a level at which we set our budget and it was a level at which we set our budget back in December and right through to this date . |
| 2 | So I 'd much rather seem a bit weak with Mrs Joe than shout at her , or hurt her , or hit her . |
| 3 | I would much rather see a return to the carefree approach by the like of Ballesteros and Lyle . |
| 4 | This , however , need not so much reflect a decline of the village as a social centre ( its past vitality has often been greatly exaggerated ) as the extension of a wider range of choice to those sections of the rural population whose ownership of a car or a motorcycle has granted them easier access to urban amenities . |
| 5 | Understood in this way a duty to serve the interests of the enterprise can sensibly only mean a duty to further the commercial success of the business . |
| 6 | The handwriting perhaps prejudices the reader against it , and misspellings like acused , juge , sentencet , can so easily make a teacher feel that the piece is incompetent and deserves low marks . |
| 7 | A fresh wind of educational change can so easily become a chill wind , however , and , if it does , the most vulnerable of our children will suffer . |
| 8 | His cast is wonderful , avoiding fussiness in a work whose circus-like twists and turns can so easily become a brawl . |
| 9 | After all , an editor can always write up the copy himself but he can not so easily produce a photograph . |
| 10 | The 5 million-word subset of the Longman Corpus can only reasonably provide a collocation dictionary of some 12,331 entries , allowing for reduction , repetitions and the low frequency of occurrence of some words . |
| 11 | No doubt one can only really understand a discipline from the inside . |
| 12 | ‘ We can not so certainly revoke a trust . |
| 13 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 14 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 15 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 16 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 17 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 18 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 19 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 20 | If a parliament can not effectively question a government , power will slip from its grasp , and government will become autocratic , benign or otherwise . |
| 21 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 22 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 23 | But that does not necessarily make a boom . |
| 24 | It will be argued that the BBC will not necessarily show a game every Sunday . |
| 25 | Changes that do not revert , e.g. , emulsion separation , do not necessarily eliminate a product . |
| 26 | When all is said and done , there may be no way to avoid the momentary grip of fear descending on you when unusual things start to happen on your computer , but I hope to have shown that this should not necessarily start a panic . |
| 27 | This does not necessarily mean a lack of interest . |
| 28 | This does not necessarily mean a mathematics degree , as many people imagine . |
| 29 | It was suggested in the workshop that this does not or should not necessarily mean a cutback in the budget . |
| 30 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |