Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not a classic , this 90-minute video is worth watching if only to see again the legendary mistakes of Leeds keeper Gary Sprake , or Lee Dixon 's own goal for Arsenal against Coventry — surely the cock-up against which all future cock-ups will be judged . |
| 2 | He explains that most specialist dies are , of course , catered for , including vegetarian dishes , which , I noticed , were unusual enough to tempt even the staunchest of meat-eaters like myself . |
| 3 | Note that the killer was a Euro-convertible , brilliantly conceived by the company 's advisers : it proved as fatal as another financiers ' wheeze , the repurchase of 40% of IBC , which helped greatly to destroy virtually the entire value of that company 's equity . |
| 4 | Similarly , the role of occupational and private pensions is covered fully in the chapter by Dulcie Groves and it is therefore necessary only to highlight here the main features which disadvantage women and contribute to their greater likelihood of experiencing poverty in old age . |
| 5 | It was the marginal cultivators that took land on rabassa morta , who found tithes and feudal dues an intolerable burden , and they were not powerful enough to challenge either the large farmers or the aristocrats from whom they held their lands . |
| 6 | The assumption within the KMT was that the " old men " of the party would disappear by " natural processes " , but the election results suggested that these processes were not rapid enough to appease either the growing sense of Taiwanese nationalism in the country or the related impatience at the slow pace of democratization . |
| 7 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 8 | I have been lucky enough to have almost the perfect relationship with my act . |
| 9 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 10 | Both were old enough to feel keenly the savage blow , one from which Leonard suffered in particular , albeit outwardly in guarded silence : ‘ The deeper the sorrow , the less tongue it has , ’ said the rabbis . |
| 11 | ATTEMPTING to bring order to a recent meeting of the Socialist group at the European parliament , Jean Pierre Cot managed inadvertently to produce quite the opposite effect , according to a story emanating from the mouth of David Martin , the Lothian MEP who glories in the high falutin' title of vice-president of the assembly . |
| 12 | The atmosphere was hostile enough to make even the sturdiest outfit crumble , with almost 38,000 — the biggest crowd in England this season outside Wembley — turning Anfield into a seething cauldron . |
| 13 | The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems . |
| 14 | To note the emergence of this new Gothic in Charlotte Bronte , is not , I think , to pursue an old mode into dusty corners , but rather to identify historically the distinguishing , and the distinguished element in her work . |
| 15 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 16 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 17 | Subsequent experimental work has failed both to clarify fully the exact mechanisms involved in frost weathering and to define precisely the climatic conditions under which the process is likely be most effective . |
| 18 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 19 | This conservative response , led by the fiery Abbot Joseph of Volokolamsk , carried the day , and Ivan 's successors were unable even to halt effectively the further growth of ecclesiastical landholding . |
| 20 | There is room here to give only the briefest account of the different kinds of vertebrates . |
| 21 | I will not attempt here to develop further the complicated arguments about God as Trinity . |
| 22 | I had been intending to return there to visit again the marvellous art galleries , in particular to see the Whistlers and the oriental art in the Freer Gallery . |
| 23 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 24 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 25 | British Gas South West whose workmen has discovered a kerb side leak , they worked throughout the night in there to cut away the damaged pipe repaired to make it safe |
| 26 | The bulbs can be planted in the garden afterwards to flower outdoors the following year . |
| 27 | The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms . |