Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 2 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 3 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 4 | The odd couple got together yesterday to urge all slap-happy mums and dads to ‘ count to ten and think again ’ . |
| 5 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 6 | If fitted it has got to work sufficiently well to warn other road users of its approach etc . |
| 7 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 8 | After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show . |
| 9 | Ian Renilson , operations manager for Fife Product Innovation , said he believed product innovation was the most fundamental method of wealth creation which could be harnessed more effectively to generate real economic growth . |
| 10 | Sam put the besom to work and Evelyn tried once more to shift that awful basket . |
| 11 | He even tried to reload fast enough to have another crack at it , but it thumped into the wet heather near the river before he could get the shell into the gun . |
| 12 | The Soviet Central Committee has been summoned to meet today apparently to consider some tricky agenda items for the Congress of People 's Deputies next week . |
| 13 | This small , wall-powered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become eight . |
| 14 | This small , wallpowered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become two . |
| 15 | This small , wallpowered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become four . |
| 16 | The hat becomes limp and shapeless , and most girls tried quite desperately to avoid this mishap . |
| 17 | Kaifu also expressed his determination " not to let history repeat itself " and stated that " the Japanese people are resolved never again to repeat those actions which had tragic consequences " . |
| 18 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
| 19 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
| 20 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 21 | The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose ’ either in print or [ more likely ] in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . |
| 22 | They are refusing adamantly even to investigate thin slab technology . |
| 23 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 24 | Yet , though the concept of class is vague , with social and economic divisions acting only imperfectly to distinguish social groups , the major occupational categories persisted in giving a sufficient basis for social distinction during the inter-war years , even though many differences between social classes were blurred at the margins . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 26 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
| 27 | The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults . |
| 28 | Tax payers react to a rise in government spending funded through the sale of bonds by saving more now to meet future tax liabilities . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , supposing they do n't choose any longer to marry one another ? |
| 30 | You 've had my rooms searched often enough to know that ! ’ |