Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abortive attempts in our time to shuffle off the whole experience and make light of its impact have only begun comparatively recently to attract the attention of psycho-analysts . |
| 2 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 3 | But it was short-lived and the State soon sought once again to enforce ‘ homogeneity ’ . |
| 4 | He was angry with the hijackers and he was angry with himself because he had not moved fast enough to help Harald . |
| 5 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 6 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 7 | A class is thus said rather vaguely to consist of a group of persons sharing similar occupations and incomes , and as a consequence similar life-styles and beliefs . |
| 8 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
| 9 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 10 | Jeremy Bates was not ranked high enough to have gone straight into the main singles draw and would have had to take part in the qualifying competition . |
| 11 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 12 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 13 | Lucien accepted this praise with downcast eyes , aware that the most accomplished of Mandru 's vibrancers were biting their knuckles in shame , because they had not practised diligently enough to emulate Lucien 's glowing performance . |
| 14 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 15 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 16 | The next great archbishop after Anselm was Thomas Becket , The monks of his day , like those of Anselm 's , believed that their archbishop had not tried hard enough to defend their rights . |
| 17 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 18 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 19 | During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace . |
| 20 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 21 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
| 22 | I 've always had quite enough to do taking over my own . ’ |
| 23 | well he 's probably got nowhere else to go , I mean it 's |
| 24 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 25 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 26 | She says that they have n't even had long enough to see if burning animal clinical waste has caused any problems . |
| 27 | I was n't put here just to live for others . |
| 28 | This is shown here ( Fig. 1.4B ) for the premaxillary suture , which is in the process of opening but has not yet proceeded far enough to destroy the integrity of the skull . |
| 29 | Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them . |
| 30 | But in this context the term ‘ interference ’ is commonly used more narrowly to designate those theories that try to explain latent inhibition in terms of the interaction of standard ( usually associative ) processes of learning or performance and without recourse to attentional constructs of the sort employed by the theories discussed in Chapter 3 . |