Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , still clutching the slices of unyielding satin to her , Nicandra wondered how it was possible to acknowledge fitly the immediate and selfless gallantry she had seen . |
| 2 | But while it is impossible to overstress the importance of Cézanne in the emergence of Cubism , it is wrong to see even the earliest Cubist painting simply as a direct continuation of him . |
| 3 | At the same time the USSR managed to cultivate reasonable neighbourly relations with the Asian CENTO states and used this to dilute further the military cohesiveness of the CENTO Pact . |
| 4 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 5 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 6 | I have aimed to answer all the questions usually asked ( and a few more besides ) , but do remember that , whichever hypnotherapist you consult , he or she should be quite willing to do precisely the same for you and to put your mind at rest about anything else which may be troubling you with regard to regression therapy as well as to hypnosis itself . |
| 7 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 8 | Most surprising of all , it has demonstrated that the scientific method , as it is presently formulated , is not adequate to explain even the physical universe , let alone human beings and their psyches . |
| 9 | It is impossible to list here the hundreds of post-graduate , professional , and continuing studies courses that might be of interest to alumni . |
| 10 | Birds of Prey does allow you to limit the choice of airplanes to make them more appropriate to the mission type , but it is only too easy to select totally the wrong plane and/or payload for the task in hand . |
| 11 | As the argument developed , I understood him to submit that as the remedy sought by the plaintiff was itself an equitable one , talk of strict estoppel was inappropriate , and he was content to put forward the alleged assurance and other matters to be considered in the exercise of my discretion . |
| 12 | Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . |
| 13 | Vologsky kept his face grave , but the surging relief inside him made it impossible to inject quite the right note of abject apology into his voice . |
| 14 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 15 | Christiane Stukenbrock , co-organiser of the show in Cologne , where it continues until 22 November at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum , emphasises that the exhibition has much to offer both the general public and the art historian . |
| 16 | It may be impossible to quantify precisely the social costs to individuals of thwarted employment aspirations and extra-long journeys to shop , but a social cost accounting method would at least increase an awareness of these social consequences . |
| 17 | It is not easy to explain away the perverse comparative static finding for k . |
| 18 | Danger to the stability of his Europe appeared , instead , for the first time in the Balkans , where it was impossible to muffle forever the basic clash of interest between Austria-Hungary and Russia . |
| 19 | The expectations hypothesis may be a good starting point , but it assumes that individuals who take unhedged positions in futures markets ( i.e. speculators ) expect on average to earn only the risk-free rate . |
| 20 | The Legendre functions of integer order are well known , but it may still be appropriate to note just the first few . |
| 21 | In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) . |
| 22 | When a sea or large lake is polluted , then , it often is not possible to identify precisely the main sources of the pollution , or to predict the effects of any particular preventive measure . |
| 23 | And at night it is sometimes possible to hear overhead the migrating flight of other birds going south : flycatcher and greylag , wheatear and nightingale . |
| 24 | Nor are we likely to know beforehand the sociolinguistic functions of all the linguistic variants identified — whether they mark age , sex or contextual style differences , for example . |
| 25 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 26 | However , the attempt to revive the CPSU and RCP — and to discredit Yeltsin — was overturned when the Court ruled by nine votes to three to discuss also the constitutional legality of the activities of the CPSU and RCP . |
| 27 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 28 | Because of this , it is hard to take seriously the various interpretations of linguistic sex-marking which are based upon the notion of prestige . |
| 29 | These four ways are equally likely to happen so the expected ratio of black-eyed and pearl-eyed beetles is 3 to 1 . |
| 30 | It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme . |