Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this standpoint , Soviet intervention in Angola ( 1975–76 ) and the Horn of Africa ( 1978 ) was not ‘ adventurist ’ : the United States was under strong political pressure not to bring its military potential to bear . |
| 2 | there may have been the odd light shower just to lay the dust but not a lot more . |
| 3 | This must have contributed eventually to the decision of the British Caledonian board reluctantly to consider a merger with the much larger BA . |
| 4 | Beryl Cooper brought her 75-year old father home to live with herself , her husband and their two children on the day her mother died . |
| 5 | So is the German commercial-property market about to crash ? |
| 6 | That urgency , she added , was even greater in the party 's Scottish heartland , where Labour knows that anything but a convincing election challenge could allow the Scottish National Party rapidly to mobilise a bandwagon of anti-Conservative protest . |
| 7 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 8 | During the 1620s Patriarch Filaret had sanctioned cautious liturgical reform precisely to forestall foreign infection . |
| 9 | I managed to find an old taxi , and Rachel and I rushed to this gleaming American hospital only to find it apparently empty ! |
| 10 | In an effort to ensure there will be no counterstrike the Royal Saudi pilots forsook the Muslim holy day today to fly their missions , a reminder that religious and political loyalties could be severely tested if Israel was to join the allied force . |
| 11 | ‘ We can not afford to ignore any market area within the EC nor feel secure to sit back on a strong domestic market only to find our position eroded by competitors , ’ he said . |
| 12 | According to exile sources in Vienna , cows are now being treated like Romanian women — ie , subjected to a monthly gynaecological examination just to make sure their fertility is not being interfered with because population increases are the order of the day . |
| 13 | It said it would return to the Australian supreme court today to ensure the agreement was in the interest of shareholders . |
| 14 | This irony prompts the questions which guided the research and which form the central problem addressed by this book : since those who are subject to regulation have good economic reason not to comply , how is compliance secured , given the frailty of the criminal sanction and its virtual disuse ? |
| 15 | And you still ca n't get a good daily woman now to clean , not for love or money . |
| 16 | In some respects , he is the last major social theorist directly to have confronted this issue in its own terms , despite the fact that this same quantitative rise in material culture has continued , and appears set to continue , at a most extraordinary rate . |
| 17 | The term ‘ carrier ’ seems to have been coined in Anglo-American legal discourse largely to aid in the assessment of liability for damage to cargo . |
| 18 | However , it must be pointed out that the traditional explanation for the destruction of woodland from the late prehistoric period onwards to provide fuel for ironworking ( and salt boiling in the Midlands ) fails to take into account the fact that such activity is more likely to have engendered conservation and careful management of woodland resources rather than wholesale clearance . |
| 19 | Currently , an author may go on a major promotional tour only to have sold 800 books when it is over . |
| 20 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
| 21 | the only political party ever to have two pieces of legislation in the House of Commons without having any M Ps . |
| 22 | The only European country not to join the CSCE process in the mid-1970s , Albania had sent an observer delegation to a CSCE human rights conference held in Copenhagen on June 5-29 [ see pp. 37550-51 ] . |
| 23 | For all that England are the only European nation not to concede a goal in the qualifying tournament , it is no exaggeration to suggest they have never been so ill-equipped for the persistent rigours of a World Cup . |
| 24 | In the 100 metres Britain 's record was dismal — only our steeplechasers in the men 's track events had done worse — with just three medals : two bronze with George Ellis in 1954 and Peter Radford four years later , and one gold from the only British sprinter ever to have won the title , Jack Archer , exactly forty years earlier . |
| 25 | Pitt was almost the only British politician ever to think that acquiring colonial possessions was the main purpose of European war ; by 1759 he had reached a position where he could carry out his objective almost at will . |
| 26 | It is of course a sacred archival principle not to interfere with the original material once it has been incorporated into a collection . |
| 27 | So , if you can get the occasional high point in to vary the scale , the difference will be as important as an interesting flash of colour or pattern . |
| 28 | The only German prisoner ever to escape from Britain , described in the book The One that Got Away , made his first attempt from Fetherstone . |
| 29 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |
| 30 | But he was given by his unmarried mum to a childless couple from Corfu , probably the only such adoption ever to take place in the Greek islands . |