Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Abortive attempts in our time to shuffle off the whole experience and make light of its impact have only begun comparatively recently to attract the attention of psycho-analysts .
2 But it was short-lived and the State soon sought once again to enforce ‘ homogeneity ’ .
3 A class is thus said rather vaguely to consist of a group of persons sharing similar occupations and incomes , and as a consequence similar life-styles and beliefs .
4 I 'd just got far enough to notice
5 I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week .
6 Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later .
7 But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics .
8 Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour .
9 I 've always had quite enough to do taking over my own . ’
10 well he 's probably got nowhere else to go , I mean it 's
11 But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television .
12 She says that they have n't even had long enough to see if burning animal clinical waste has caused any problems .
13 This is shown here ( Fig. 1.4B ) for the premaxillary suture , which is in the process of opening but has not yet proceeded far enough to destroy the integrity of the skull .
14 Except for marine products , the few goods that polar regions yield are seldom valued highly enough to offset the high costs and risks of exploiting them .
15 But in this context the term ‘ interference ’ is commonly used more narrowly to designate those theories that try to explain latent inhibition in terms of the interaction of standard ( usually associative ) processes of learning or performance and without recourse to attentional constructs of the sort employed by the theories discussed in Chapter 3 .
16 He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up .
17 Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas .
18 Doctors and physiotherapists were never allowed close enough to examine him .
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