Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 2 | O'Neill 's minor reforms or , as Utley perceptively describes it , his ‘ government by gesture ’ i served only to politicize further the frustration of the Catholic population , without making it any more committed to the Northern Ireland state . |
| 3 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
| 4 | Bend the ‘ handle ’ down to pull away the cutting with a heel . |
| 5 | Threading his way past the echoing warehouses , boarded shop fronts , and silent cafes , he returned to the concrete hut , only to find there the body of Philip Walton . |
| 6 | The Sensorites ’ combined power of illusion is great enough to swamp even the Doctor s deductive abilities . |
| 7 | ACTIUS is to hold its first open meeting in association with the Call Centre Management Conference , and is inviting members and prospective members along to help direct the group 's future direction . |
| 8 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 9 | A single day is not long enough to illustrate fully the roles played , or the variety of jobs undertaken by the UK Infantry Battalion of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) — AMF(L) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She hurried back down to put away the food already in the kitchen , and by the time Penry returned with the last couple of boxes she had a tea-tray waiting , complete with a plate of tempting cakes from the small bakery in Brides Haven . |
| 12 | Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons . |
| 13 | Her holy obstinacy , her sulky refusal to bend her stubborn head to emperors , fathers , lovers , or dragons had proved strong enough to conquer even the need to kill . |
| 14 | ( 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 ) . |
| 15 | And fifth , it must be alert enough to judge perfectly the moment for a sudden ‘ recovery ’ and flight to safety . |
| 16 | The constable did n't inform Ulster detectives who were called in to investigate only a car theft . |
| 17 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 18 | The game plan is to grow big enough to threaten even the city giants . |
| 19 | HWIM and Hearsay-II 's acoustic and language models were not good enough to map accurately the relationship between the input and linguistic descriptions of the utterance . |
| 20 | It is easy enough to brush aside the Pribram incident . |
| 21 | ‘ They 'll hold a properly hit shot , but they 'll be quick enough to test even the Swede , and they 'll put the wind up some of ‘ em . ’ |
| 22 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 23 | An abstract data type ( ADT ) is a set of operations , operating on a collection of stored data , defined so that they are rigorous enough to specify completely the effect that they have on the data , but abstract because it must not specify how the data is stored nor how the operations are carried out . |
| 24 | And Ferris added a stunning third before half-time , rushing in to head home an inch perfect McCoy cross . |
| 25 | And Ferris added a stunning third before half-time , rushing in to head home an inch perfect McCoy cross . |
| 26 | The keeper fumbled and defender Nigel Quigley leapt in to head home the equaliser . |
| 27 | The keeper fumbled and defender Nigel Quigley leapt in to head home the equaliser . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , one ought not to underplay significantly the degree of consensus aimed for in England and Wales through consultation and extensive teacher participation in National Curriculum syllabus working groups , even if this system was rather undermined by the government 's rejection of several of the history working party 's recommendations . |
| 29 | ‘ The attendance ’ , said counsel for the defendant in Hunt v. Broome , ‘ is for the purpose of peacefully persuading a man not to work so the attendance must be in a position where the persuasion can be carried out ; otherwise its purpose is frustrated … |
| 30 | The aim of this policy of dispersing Civil Service jobs is not to increase directly the job opportunities of the unemployed in the economic blackspots . |