Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |
| 2 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 3 | Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ? |
| 4 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
| 5 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |
| 6 | He relapsed into a coma again , returning to consciousness only once to speak his wife 's name ; and on 4 January 1965 , he died . |
| 7 | Although the butler had never said or intimated anything untoward , Michael had grown up with prejudice long enough to recognize it for what it was . |
| 8 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 9 | As you do this , silently count three cards from the top of the pack , place them together and slightly indent them so you can see the comer of the third card just enough to know its value . |
| 10 | A BRIDE wed four months early yesterday to grant her brother 's dying wish . |
| 11 | It advises the Chancellor to encourage environmentally cleaner cars rather than taxing cars more punitively to restrict their use . |
| 12 | This venue enabled Brezhnev more effectively to link his proposals on resolving tensions in the Gulf and containing the Gulf War with the Indian interest in the Indian Ocean zone of peace idea . |
| 13 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 14 | so I thought he , he 's changing things he 's saying well I do n't think this is suitable and I do n't think my way of tackling this is suitable because he 's used to dealing with different kids , although they 're a similar age , they 're not very motivated or mighty but they 're more motivated than these kids , but he says like he 'll turned back towards the black board and he 'll be writing and they 're shouting abuse at him , F ing and blinding and he says it makes me so angry because I do n't know the voices well enough to know who 's saying it |
| 15 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 16 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 17 | Her whole stance was a silent challenge to him to deny it , but she had to press her lips tightly together to stop them quivering . |
| 18 | The new public concern about the social impact of movies led the industry yet again to put its own house in order by establishing a new Production Code . |
| 19 | Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for . |
| 20 | Near one of these , a guardian-baboon squatted , on a leash long enough to enable it to run after any would-be shoplifter and seize his thigh in its jaws . |
| 21 | Erm the other thing about extroverts and introverts is that erm , extroverts really like to do their thinking er by er putting out their point of view , and getting everybody else 's point of view out , and , and looking at it . |
| 22 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 23 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 24 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 25 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 26 | If there was to be a severe winter , George hoped that he would see the warning signs early enough to anticipate it . |
| 27 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 28 | I remember leaving a ledge to abseil down Scafell 's East Buttress once only to realise I was falling out of control ; I had forgotten to clip my figure of eight descendeur into my harness . |
| 29 | Again , that does n't get us anywhere at the moment , but it does slightly bear out the possibility that the man was a foreigner which would explain our total failure so far to get him identified . " |
| 30 | Frances had been married to an actor long enough to know what she was talking about . |