Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion .
2 Would you please be good enough to arrange signature on behalf of Three Vee Ltd ?
3 Joint finance has been provided since 1976 to enable local authorities and health authorities , as well as voluntary organizations , to work together to provide facilities for care in the community for different groups , including both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped .
4 The afternoon 's shopping had been arranged to console her sister Penelope , who at twenty-five was still young enough to suffer disappointments in love as commonly as colds or headaches .
5 They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future .
6 — meetings should be long enough to provide opportunity for fun and relaxation as well as worship and discussion .
7 We have a responsibility not only to provide businesses with access to information , but also with structures that enable them to talk to each other and to trade with the residential community ; and ,
8 Sharpe had been promised that his duties to the Prince were not social , but only to provide advice during battle .
9 Cross-curricular groups take several forms , from particular task groups ( eg to provide guidelines on homework policy , to review the school 's assessment policy ) , through more long-term tasks of working parties ( eg equal opportunities : gender ) to standing committees ( eg TVEI steering group ) .
10 Pausing only to pour buckets of water into the burning dustbins , and to be sick in the basin on the landing , Rainbow races for the nearest pay-phone , to ruin several people 's evenings .
11 It is not unusual for a receiver to continue to run a business while he is selling off the charged assets and in doing so to purchase goods on credit .
12 With modifications of either nuclease P1 enhancement or butanol extraction the assay is sensitive enough to detect adducts in microgram quantities of native human DNA and has been used to detect and quantify adducts in a number of human tissues .
13 The critical chain length c is interpreted as representing the dividing point between chains which are too short to provide a significant contribution to η from entanglement effects and those large enough to cause retardation of flow by intertwining with their neighbours .
14 If Darlington ( let's change that to Hartlepool ) were lucky enough to win promotion to Division Two they would have until 1994 two years to eliminate standing at their ground .
15 This suggests that the subducted sediment somehow survived as a chemically and physically distinct region large enough to avoid obliteration by diffusion .
16 One day he would be wealthy enough to buy shoes with metal caps and a fur-lined leather jacket , and a big iron skillet filled to the brim with red meat and eggs and mushrooms and sausages and crispy fried bread in sizzling hot fat .
17 Martin 's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon .
18 ‘ All dressed ready for your important engagement , I see , ’ he drawled , his eyes going once more over her bedroom attire , and , if that was n't enough to ignite sparks of fury in her , his mocking tone abruptly fell away as his glance went from her and to the hall — in which direction she knew he was aware there was at least one bedroom .
19 The amount left over shrinks by 16 p.c. to £12,734 which is just enough to cover day by day living expenses , as extrapolated from the National Expenditure Survey , without allowing for higher basic costs in London and the costs associated with employing a nanny .
20 Should you be pleb enough to require chips with breakfast , remember to ask for fries .
21 This chapter looks at how each of the different aspects of this strategy has been employed , not only to free money from welfare for tax cuts but also to gain an appreciation of the extent of the disenfranchisement from an insurance-based welfare that has occurred .
22 In specially favoured areas the grass is extensive enough to form patches of turf ; the pinks are usually rarer and more dispersed .
23 He described Nato as a forum where Western countries would work together to negotiate agreements between East and West and see that they were implemented and verifiable .
24 His leadership characteristics include ingenuity and determination not only to unearth agents of change , but to see that they are profitably applied : he took robotic ideas from Austin Rover into food manufacturing .
25 With this in mind , representatives from the six major accountancy bodies have come together to form Women in Accountancy .
26 These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin .
27 Raft , n , an improvised float of planks fastened together to give support on water .
28 Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal .
29 But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon .
30 The Law Society considers that the Law Commission 's proposals will have a significant practical application , not only to solve problems in relation to incapacitated people , but also to provide ways in which potential conflicts or disputes can be avoided .
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