Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am most grateful to have the opportunity to develop once again on the Adjournment the problems associated with trunk roads in Leicestershire . |
| 2 | In 1945 , in the closing months of the war in Europe , she convinced the Administrators of the Old Vic and Sadler 's Wells that it would be altogether admirable to reopen the theatre in Roseberry Avenue with the world premiere of Benjamin Britten 's first opera , Peter Grimes . |
| 3 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 4 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 5 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 6 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 7 | After such duplicity the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , was ‘ wholly right to tell the SNP we could not work with them while they behaved in such a cynical way . ’ |
| 8 | They 'll either hint I was downright dishonest to sign the contract in the first place or they 'll make out I ca n't even spell my own name . |
| 9 | However we were most interested to watch the girls at work one evening when they put on a display for us . |
| 10 | The categories and concepts he hammered out in his attack on Idealism — many of them of course drawn from Idealism itself , but refashioned by him — are by no means wholly adequate to serve the restatement of Christian theology , and could indeed lead to the emergence of philosophies quite alien to Christianity itself . |
| 11 | It seems that the wise are the ones who are most afraid to take the Ring . |
| 12 | At this early stage of the Indian election campaign , the debate is not over who is most suited to run the country , but which politician is the least bent . |
| 13 | Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects . |
| 14 | ‘ Paul Daniels learned the ropes on the Middlesbrough club scene where he had to be a little tougher to survive the wisecracks , but he comes across as unfriendly on television , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to raise this issue and I am glad that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is present , because I know that he will listen with his usual thoughtfulness , great knowledge and understanding of the problems that I will enunciate . |
| 16 | Would n't it be much simpler to tackle the problem at its root , and at least try to return towards old fashion farming methods — smaller fields , natural fertilisers and pest controls , a level of productivity we can comfortably consume and an end to the gradual poisoning and demolition of our countryside ? |
| 17 | An alternative notation which may sometimes be more convenient is ( 5 ) , with square brackets marking the fact that this word-meaning is taken to match an entity : If , however , the mind does not feel that BOTTLES is sufficiently specific to identify the target of its attention , then the identification may be extended as in ( 6 ) , where we adopt a plain arrowhead as our representation of qualification : We assume that a qualified entity remains an entity ( see Appendix B ) , and this can more conveniently be represented by our alternative notation as in : It is quite important to stress the retention of the same subscript i in ( 7 ) . |
| 18 | Will such businesses be sufficiently profitable to generate the interest of the private sector ? |
| 19 | The SPD maintained that it was only possible to fund the reconstruction of eastern Germany by increasing taxes for the well-off . |
| 20 | The point being emphasised here is that it is only possible to understand the suddenness of the onset of the downward spiral by keeping in view the production of fixed capital . |
| 21 | The final three categories represent the progressive development of a professional style of nursing , in which patterns of personal , social and emotional functioning in all aspects of the work are sufficiently self-disciplined to enable the nurse to work effectively . |
| 22 | Benefits were kept sufficiently low to preserve the incentive to work and save , but those least able to work or save — the lowest paid , the irregularly employed and women — gained least of all . |
| 23 | I SHALL be so sorry to see the end of the florin . |
| 24 | To Wycliffe 's austere , almost puritanical approach , Kersey opposed an earthy realism and both were sufficiently tolerant to make the combination work . |
| 25 | The customary sex of the marriage bed does so little to stop the mind working , and the mind must stop working if the flesh is to have its due gratification ; the acknowledgement of its glory . |
| 26 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 27 | Mitterrand had earlier lent his name to one of the many ( abortive ( bills intended to give the agency a status in law : now , Marin achieved the task of securing a political consensus sufficiently broad to secure the passage through Parliament of a law ending the provisional status of AFP . |
| 28 | 1.58 It is not enough for the defendant to argue that he denies liability or denies a conviction in his defence ; he must also show that his grounds for doing so are sufficiently strong to put the plaintiff at risk of either complete or substantial failure at trial or that , on the face of it , the plaintiff 's claim is not worth very much even on full liability . |
| 29 | There is a prima facie case against two named individuals which is sufficiently strong to justify the issue of warrants . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the covenants need to be sufficiently strong to prevent the vendor from re-entering the market place shortly after completion . |