Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 2 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 3 | Clearly many staff had found the self-appraisal to be a valuable exercise and it was such staff , it seems , that were most positive about the process as a whole and who were most willing to take seriously the advisers ' recommendations . |
| 4 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 5 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 6 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 7 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 8 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 9 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 10 | While we might make this general point and follow through its implications when we want to compare , for example , Braniel people with Ballymacarrett people , it is much less easy to see how the relatively looseknit network structures of Braniel people might meaningfully be compared with each other . |
| 11 | While it is easy to understand why the drug makers pursue the will-of-the-wisp of the ultimate painkiller ; it is less easy to understand why the Committee on Safety of Medicines licenses them with no evidence of improvement in either safety or effectiveness . |
| 12 | It is understandable that facts such as those in Bank of Montreal v. Stuart may seem to justify this stringent requirement , but less easy to understand why the facts of Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones , 128 L.T. 218 should have done so . |
| 13 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 14 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 15 | Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation . |
| 16 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 17 | Her denunciation rang through the dinner party and it was sufficiently vigorous to deter even the drunken George from persisting . |
| 18 | The authority is wiser and therefore better able to establish how the individual should act . |
| 19 | The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities . |
| 20 | You will find it very much safer to use instead the thin blade known as a ‘ key-hole saw ’ or , as it is called in the form in which the blade passes into the handle and is gripped by a screw , a ‘ pad saw ’ . |
| 21 | And if we 're combining Morrissey and The Smiths ' covers , it 's only fair to point out the relative regularity with which three others have had their mugs used to shift copies . |
| 22 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 23 | But at least the Knitting Factory is blessed with a far better PA than is the normal preserve of such places — donated , apparently , by no less than Laurie Anderson — and the fragile webs of such head-in-the-oven epics as ‘ Power Failure ’ and the pulse-pummelling opener ‘ Bell ’ remain sufficiently well-spun to snag even the most neutral observer . |
| 24 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 25 | It is extremely difficult to gauge accurately the dimensions of the shroud from these brasses , but a mean average would be twelve inches longer than the length of the body — to allow for a six-inch knot at top and bottom — and three times its width . |
| 26 | IT is perhaps difficult to understand why The Rite of Spring caused a theatrical scandal when first it was danced in Paris in 1913 . |
| 27 | However , it seems fairly certain that the Moon is depleted in iron with respect to the Earth , not only in iron alone but also in iron-rich compounds because iron and these compounds are too dense to be sufficiently abundant to make up the iron abundance to that of the Earth . |
| 28 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 29 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 30 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |