Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Suppose by reorganizing production it was possible to produce at point B to the north-east of A. If David and Susie assess their own utility by the quantity of goods they themselves receive , and if they would each rather have more goods than less , B is a better allocation than A since both David and Susie get more .
2 The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care .
3 The value of the constant is fixed by the requirement that , in the limit of weak slowly varying gravitational fields , the Einstein equation should reduce to Newton 's law of gravitation .
4 In the event the union of Foix and Béarn in 1290 effectively solved one aspect of the controversy — Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix and vicomté of Béarn , now embodied the claims of both houses to Bigorre .
5 Maxine , the receptionist , runs a small shop and tries to keep the sand at bay as our sailors trudge it into the bar in exchange for that badly needed cool drink .
6 Within that slowly changing real total , major changes of pattern will , as I have already said , take place under the pressure of changes in medical practice and changes in medical fashion , as well as more subtle social and environmental changes .
7 Declarer was alert enough to put this information to good use .
8 Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse .
9 The Spanish naturally thought these irregulars were pirates and their position was certainly ambiguous .
10 And his feeling of intense satisfaction at this conclusion was only because he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision .
11 Gradually the business community as a whole will accept that such service industries , in spite of the constant winning and losing of clients , are here to stay and probably are a permanent part of that constantly expanding commercial sector , communications .
12 We have separate custodians , the Bank of Scotland are doing this and er I think er having a separate organisation outside is er an important first step , but you 've then got to tie up who gives them instructions and that obviously needs careful thought , needs to be done through the trustees .
13 have n't just to literally lie back there and the man says what happens , when it happens , and they 're to do as they 're told sort of thing because that obviously develops sexual abuse , women being raped , and attitudes that lead towards these things .
14 This period convinced him even more that merely eating less cereals and other more uncommon food products , such as tulip bulbs , improved the clinical condition of his patients .
15 Table 5.1. below gives some performance figures for the HWIM and RM1 lexical access components .
16 A pleasant enough looking young man was Yuri Rudakov in his slacks and open check shirt and loose grey jacket .
17 It should be flexible : not in terms of changing.to meet the inputs but in terms of being broad enough to channel different inputs in the required direction .
18 The Church was always broad enough to include such people .
19 He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety .
20 Under the " once-and-for-all " test what matters is that the income can be used to benefit the individual in question in the year of assessment in which it arises , and it does not matter if it is not possible so to apply that income in a subsequent year of assessment .
21 This makes it possible only to use one part if there is limited time available .
22 And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ?
23 Wycliffe walked on towards the town , but he avoided the waterfront and returned instead by the main street , which was narrow enough to give some shelter from the gale .
24 The sound of these great explosions was audible over a large part of the Earth 's surface : at Elsey Creek in South Australia , 3,224 kilometres from Krakatoa , the noise was loud enough to wake sleeping people , who described it as being similar to the sound of rock being blasted .
25 Well , because the internal speakers already run at 4 ohms , any additional speakers would create the wrong impedance and , besides , the S80 is loud enough to handle most situations without extra cabs .
26 COLIN STOKES , the SCRIMLEY ARSENAL goalkeeper once owned a dog that only had three legs !
27 He really was brought up in his tracks , and said , when he brought her home , well if that only made one person think , it 's been worth it .
28 But that only posed another question : Why so frightened ?
29 Some weeks ago , I went to a most exciting block of modern flats called Waterside Point , near Battersea Bridge , that only opened last year .
30 It is this sense of losing control of one 's life , of handing power over it to lawyers , that so terrifies potential litigants and alienates the rest of society from its advocates .
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