Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given a more positive ride on her previous outing - again at Newmarket - she stayed on gamely to fend off the well-handicapped Kiveton Kabooz . |
| 2 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 3 | Theodora had spread out the Ordnance Survey and fended off Tobias long enough to make out a route . |
| 4 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 5 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 6 | Insurance firm Minet stepped in yesterday to take up a last-minute offer to sponsor the event , while BSkyB will provide satellite coverage . |
| 7 | America seems critical of just about everything Japanese : its persistent trade surplus , its reluctance to liberalise rice imports , its failure so far to provide even a token force in the Gulf . |
| 8 | At first it had seemed he was only there to sit out the war with his French woman , but then the summons had come from the Dutch army and Isabella had known that her husband would follow Sharpe . |
| 9 | We are readily persuaded to postpone any criticisms we may have of his mode of telling the story , and the next two lines make it clear that the tale is only there to bring out a moral . |
| 10 | She let her lashes flutter down briefly to shut out the sight of Lucenzo 's smouldering eyes , which seemed to be mesmerising her into surrender . |
| 11 | First the polarisation detectors were not far enough apart to rule out the possibility of overlapping single-particle wave functions ; and secondly the pairs of detected photons were not space-like separated — a signal travelling at the speed of light could have passed between the two sets of apparatus . |
| 12 | After a while , two soldiers in khaki ponchos came up the hill and asked us somewhat apologetically to put out the fire . |
| 13 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 14 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 15 | These days it 's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply . |
| 16 | It is not enough to bring in an employee assistance programme if the company fails to face up to its own part in stress mismanagement . |
| 17 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 18 | To finish in style , we spent a luxurious four days in Palm Springs — lying by the pool — in temperatures of 120C , just enough to finish off the tan . |
| 19 | They perform the function of a rite of passage whereby the reader is enabled not only to glimpse imaginatively the possibility of a reality which transcends the limitations of sense and intellect but also to validate it . |
| 20 | There should be time not only to carry out the patient care but also to discuss and evaluate it . |
| 21 | ( a ) Unregistered land Recitals to a conveyance can be very useful , not only to describe briefly the reason for the deed but also to recite additional information which , owing to the provisions of s45(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925 ( the section providing that a recital 20 years ' old shall be sufficient evidence of the truth of the fact recited unless proved to the contrary ) , might not be readily available later ( for instance , because a copy marriage certificate is mislaid or was not abstracted ) . |
| 22 | I was able not only to point out the inconsistencies of the so-called ‘ voluntary agreements ’ but also to the confusion in the ranks of the tobacco industry . |
| 23 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 24 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 25 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 26 | Frances moved over positively to switch on the radio . |
| 27 | It 's just that I have arranged to meet him tonight sometime to sort out a few things for me would of made a lot more sense if he 'd been here ! |
| 28 | Their task is not simply to carry out a paperwork exercise . |
| 29 | ‘ We are not here to sort out the world 's problems ! ’ |
| 30 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |