Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 2 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 3 | Hello , Just how does anyone who 's old enough to remember compare the two I only saw Gary Sprake play twice ( famous so I ca n't really remember how bad he was . |
| 4 | The company admitted that they had done so to avoid paying the new higher taxes . |
| 5 | The drafter may sometimes be tempted to leave something deliberately vague in order to mask its meaning , perhaps to avoid frightening a potential contract partner . |
| 6 | One has only to call to mind the eternal life of the moving pictures of the destruction of the Tacoma Bridge and Pruitt Igoe to see how influential such a fate could be . |
| 7 | He was fortunate enough to have secured the nineteen forty volume of short stories from his local library . |
| 8 | However , I was lucky enough to have joined a tolerant company that believed in giving people a chance . |
| 9 | For those daft enough to have missed the last issue , Black Night is a twopart text driven adventure game , in which a peaceful medieval village was brought to its knees by an evil warlord . |
| 10 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 11 | They are simply people who are lucky enough to have landed a free trip to a holiday destination , a trip paid for by an airline , a tour company , a hotel chain or any combination of the three . |
| 12 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 13 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 14 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 15 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 16 | It was a wonderful drive on an afternoon balmy enough to warrant lowering the electric windows and we cruised along to Mahler 's music playing on the six speaker sound system , through some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever seen . |
| 17 | It was a wonderful drive on an afternoon balmy enough to warrant lowering the electric windows and we cruised along to Mahler 's music playing on the six speaker sound system , through some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever seen . |
| 18 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 19 | While the English fleet lay off Lisbon Moulton was sent ashore to try to negotiate a diplomatic settlement with the king . |
| 20 | One evening I hear the sounds of a bird in distress , and thinking our cat had seized yet another victim I dashed outside to try to rescue the unfortunate creature . |
| 21 | Furthermore , even the archaic powers that had not started from the position of being nation-states were forced to compete ; the Tsars thrust their reach eastwards to block the British advance in Asia , to stop the other Europeans in China , and finally to try to halt the westward movement of Japan . |
| 22 | But er , you 'd got to be a man and a half to be able just to smoke to smoke the local stuff . . |
| 23 | The court found that the pilot appeared to have confused the vertical speed instruments with the altitude indicator , and thus to have selected an inadequate altitude shortly before landing . |
| 24 | But in the mid-1980s , a 34-year-old advertising executive earning a substantial living who chucks it aside to help forge a Utopian society is an anachronism , more like a character in a Peter Carey novel than real life . |
| 25 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |
| 26 | Soccer legend Sir Stanley Matthews , one of the best players ever to have graced the English game . |
| 27 | SOME GENTLE arm-twisting from President Bush appeared yesterday to have persuaded the Angolan rebel leader , Jonas Savimbi , to accept a resumption of a ceasefire in the Angolan civil war , and to re-open the peace process with the Soviet-backed government in Luanda . |
| 28 | In England an associated group was later to help form the Socialist League . |
| 29 | Its importance as a fore-runner was due less to its political ideas than to its military discipline and its administrative personnel , who were later to help organize the day-to-day running of the BUF . |
| 30 | This arrangement was partly to help overcome a technical problem since Laura Ashley machinery was not capable of producing sheeting to the required width , and coordinated bed linen was a must for American designers . |