Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing more frustrating than discovering halfway through a DIY project that you have forgotten to buy a simple yet vital piece of equipment . |
| 2 | Then arrange some flowers in the vase , remembering to position a few so that they overlap the top of the vase to soften as many hard lines as possible , with perhaps one or two leaves or flowers ranged around the base of the vase for a more natural effect . |
| 3 | Alan Parker and Jonathan Huxley were awarded the Spero Prize at the Schools ' summer show , awarded to students who had ‘ sought to create an innovative yet marketable style which reflects art in the nineties ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ For someone who started out by stating he was not here to make judgments , you would appear to have a few already to hand , ’ he said acidly . |
| 5 | If , as you approach retirement , you become aware that you are not going to have a big enough pension to live as comfortably as you would like , you might seriously consider the possibility of making additional voluntary contributions . |
| 6 | ‘ You seem to have a fair enough command of the English language . |
| 7 | At this point the author would like to clarify a few apparently trivial points . |
| 8 | When Suzy failed to keep a six o'clock appointment her worried boss rang police , who later found her purse and straw hat . |
| 9 | You 're gon na have to go a long then , cos I 'm going up the pub , ha , ha . |
| 10 | Such activities do not always have to command a high up-front cost , as in the case of the off-the-job courses . |
| 11 | Speaking immediately after the Sydney attack , federal Justice Minister Michael Tate accused the government of New South Wales of failing to take a strong enough stance against the powerful gun lobby . |
| 12 | Hence , the dose response relationship for the trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells seems to follow a polynominal rather than a linear function . |
| 13 | The Labour left , meanwhile , did not manage to mount a convincing enough case for its ‘ alternative strategy ’ ( the far left had no half-way credible strategy to propose ) , while the trade union movement was not united in pushing for any positive quid pro quo in exchange for wage restraint , having rejected the Bullock proposals for Industrial Democracy , but was increasingly tugging for a return to ‘ free collective bargaining ’ . |
| 14 | He therefore maintained that Christ died to pay an equivalent rather than the actual penalty for their sins . |
| 15 | Looking at him , do you seem to see a 25-year-old rather than a player of 35 ? |
| 16 | We elected to use a static rather than a dynamic method to evaluate transit because our previous studies with dynamic scintigraphy showed that emptying of the unprepared rat ileum into the caecum occurred very infrequently . |
| 17 | I 've been forced to pay a high enough price for the goods , for heaven 's sake . |
| 18 | I wished to assault a commonplace still prevailing in Italy : a Jew is a mild person , a scholar ( religious or profane ) , unwarlike , humiliated , who tolerated centuries of persecution without ever fighting back . |
| 19 | Although Boardwalk was drawn on the inside , Kelly hoped to get a good enough break to be able to settle third or fourth . |
| 20 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
| 21 | Solicitors are frequently appointed not only in the legal departments but in the secretarial departments of large concerns ; but a person who intends to go for a secretarial department would be better advised to obtain a secretarial rather than a legal qualification ( to have both would , of course , be best of all ) . |
| 22 | Here he urges Scots to wake up and fight to protect a fragile yet valuable asset Telling Scots to take a stronger line : Chapman Pincher is incensed by English-based drift-netting . |
| 23 | Since a year last August scientists working on UA1 and UA2 have been putting the finishing touches to their apparatus , and at the same time machine physicists at CERN have been working to get a large enough number of collisions in the SPS . |