Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Henry was retired in July 1985 after a racing career over eight seasons which made him one of the most popular horses ever to run in the USA . |
| 2 | It was built only 30 years ago to service the huge and ambitious Ord River reservoir and irrigation scheme , but it gives a fascinating glimpse into the colossal pioneering effort needed to transform the arid outback into a workable landscape . |
| 3 | Then , to give her basically honest soul more to contend with , he went on , ‘ Naylor must be fairly serious about you , Leith , ’ and asked , ‘ How do you feel about him ? ’ |
| 4 | Would it not have been a pipedream only six weeks ago to think that the Berlin Wall would be knocked down ? ’ |
| 5 | Next had come the much bigger step in to cable television , which he believes will one day be a major community resource and the source of enormous profits through home-order shopping on two-way TV lines . |
| 6 | Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago . |
| 7 | Why use so many men just to stop them enjoying themselves ? |
| 8 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 9 | They have also had to face greatly increased competition both to get into drama school and into the profession . |
| 10 | In the same way six women in the area got together 5 years ago to set up a project which would bring the women together to tackle their problems as a group , to teach them new skills which will help them find alternative sources of income . |
| 11 | They have enough inner strength not to feel threatened by the demand for child-like dependency implicit in tears ; they will recognize it for what it is , a temporary rather than a permanent threat to their autonomy . |
| 12 | It is only common sense not to drink large quantities of diuretic liquid like coffee or fruit juice before an interview . |
| 13 | CO-HOSTS Australia were one of only two countries not to have finalised their World Cup line-up before we went to press . |
| 14 | Wed Wednesday morning Joan now so , this is me er I 've only two days really to get some more recordings |
| 15 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |
| 16 | This scheme will be used in future for it provides an opportunity for the genuine fan who attends games against less glamorous opposition not to lose out in the real crowd pullers . |
| 17 | Even if you think me the most immoral bastard ever to walk the face of the earth , why would you react so personally ? |
| 18 | Earlier in the month Meese , a senior member of the campaign team , had issued the most comprehensive denial yet to have been made in connection with the affair . |
| 19 | When Cliff was transferred back to Watford in early May 1965 our supporters were much displeased but today Cliff is remembered at Selhurst Park with enormous pleasure by those who were privileged to see him play , and he was , without question , one of the most inspiring players ever to have appeared in the Palace colours . |
| 20 | To disturb and shake a peacefully dying man simply to oblige your friend here who thinks he is a healer ? |
| 21 | In 1990 he was so impressed by the Belfast reception that he came back just three weeks later to do it all again . |
| 22 | It took them just 93 minutes yesterday to wrap up a crushing 10-wicket win , with Akram taking three wickets in 14 balls and Smith left high and dry on 84 . |
| 23 | It had cost £0.75 million to bring just one ward up to scratch . |
| 24 | His 32-year-old mother had popped in to finish her weekly shopping in the local Co-Op store and returned just five minutes later to find him missing . |
| 25 | But he had just enough quality not to blame others for his guilt . |
| 26 | Just enough light around to make out the that tree there , and a little bit of detail in the in the foreshore and obviously the headland . |
| 27 | Seymour Cray now says that it will be marketed as a front-end to enhance massively parallel processors , in the hope that the combination will appeal to scientists whose problems are too complex for a massively parallel computer alone to solve . |
| 28 | On adjacent courts , Amanda Brown — the former Wightman Cup player — shone as she romped to victory over Queen 's No. 1 Alison Grant 6–1 6–1 , while team mate Judy Rich — who this time last year led the Queen 's attack — took just four games more to defeat Karen Cass in the other singles rubber . |
| 29 | The Microelectronics Revolution , an edited collection of papers providing one of the earliest and most comprehensive overviews of the impact of new technology , opens with the editor , Tom Forester , quoting Sir Ieuan Maddock 's description of microelectronics as ‘ The most remarkable technology ever to confront mankind ’ ( Forester 1980 , xiii ) . |
| 30 | The photographs reveal substantially-sized twin venturi tunnels underneath , which suggest this is the most ambitious attempt yet to convert grand prix ground-effect to road use . |