Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] 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 It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice .
10 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 .
11 ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’
12 The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 If they are worked into a framework of thought similar to Kant 's schemata , then it is only necessary to bring up the general subject in which the images rest and they will come before the mind .
20 The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate .
21 It was just possible to make out the 300 foot radio mast at the Davistow Airfield , an ex-military airfield well worth a visit , offering splendid moorland isolation and three concrete runways , the longest being 1550 metres .
22 Fortunately , most retailers will split packs for you if buying whole packs would be uneconomical , so it 's best either to count up the numbers you need from a scale plan of the area to be tiled , or else to use the ‘ number per square metre ’ figures given above .
23 Its Transitional Assistance Group was utterly inadequate to sort out the mess .
24 Women could also show their resentment of medical attitudes in popular anti-medical movements such as the contagious diseases agitation , the anti-vivisection league movement and the anti-compulsory vaccination struggle ; and feminists were easily able to point out the inadequacies of the myth of intrinsic female weakness .
25 Finally , having scrubbed and soaked the Curiowood , this can be placed just off-centre to break up the open area left , with Fountain plants around it and elsewhere in the foreground .
26 Franco repeated the message of his 2 December letter when he said that he did not " see any advantage in change " and that if he were ever to delegate the leadership of the government , it would only be when he was no longer able to carry out the functions of that position as well as those of head of state .
27 Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels .
28 It is scarcely necessary to point out the inadequacy and sexism of this picture — in which women 's own collective labour as gatherers or tenders of gardens is entirely overlooked — and its inapplicability to many of the cultures in which sex-exclusive linguistic markers are found .
29 The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " .
30 For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available .
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