Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irvine ( 1975 ) sees a budget system as enabling management more effectively to plan , coordinate , control and evaluate the activities of an organisation . |
| 2 | However , reflecting back on Hofstede 's definition of a budget system as enabling management more effectively to plan , co-ordinate , control and evaluate the activities of an organisation , it can be seen that there are a number of significant management elements in the budgetary process as well . |
| 3 | He stopped work long enough to look up directly into her face , then bent his head once more and continued cleaning the skull with neat , precise movements of the knife . |
| 4 | Leo Castelli notes , ‘ Collectors do n't give art away only to save taxes , though dealers will surely lose some objects they would have gotten otherwise . |
| 5 | American firms issue paper privately mainly to skirt the burdensome disclosure rules set by the Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 6 | Particularly because of this latter fear , an effective navy meant a lot to the English in these wars and they spent money quite lavishly to keep it strong . |
| 7 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 8 | Although your plants grow , they do not assimilate nitrate fast enough to deprive the algae of their food . |
| 9 | ‘ Osman personally does n't have money enough even to pay the interest , ’ said Nikos . |
| 10 | Then she realised that her uncle would have entered the church through a side door connecting with the vestry , while her aunt , who enjoyed rather poor health , would not have set foot outside even to take in the milk . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's hard to believe such a vivacious personality is lost to us ’ , ’ Dysart was quoted as saying 'and harder still to accept that the stand I have taken against terrorism may have brought about her death . ’ ’ |
| 12 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
| 13 | You really need to calm down and take life more stoically to reinforce your position . |
| 14 | They can resist temptation long enough to make decisions based on good sense . |
| 15 | WHILE this approach undoubtedly has advantages in that effort is directed to areas where a known interest exists — TO my way of thinking it fails to stimulate growth sufficiently quickly to satisfy what I consider SHOULD be a market led approach , nor does it satisfactorily communicate our case to the potential customers . |
| 16 | Her twin must love Roman very much to have let Claudia know how worried she was about his reaction to her escapade with Garry . |
| 17 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |
| 18 | Crystal and Davy ( 1969 ) are happy to tape-record colleagues , friends and family surreptitiously , requesting permission only subsequently to use the material . |
| 19 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |