Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 2 | All the right ingredients seem to be there : so it 's easy enough to persuade yourself the sharp steering , smooth increase in turbo power in the mid-range , quick-shifting gear change and body-hugging seats imply something of a breakthrough by Detroit . |
| 3 | A child must be old enough to understand what the natural consequences of his or her actions are likely to be . |
| 4 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 5 | She knocked on his door and asked if he would be kind enough to show her the famous bird . |
| 6 | ‘ You set up this whole thing deliberately , just to cause me the maximum amount of aggravation , did n't you ? |
| 7 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 8 | And just to remind you the open the open state probability can be defined as the time that the channel spends in its in the open state divided by the total time of the recording . |
| 9 | If anything is demonstrated by the USSR 's record on energy over the past decade it is that the resources , the equipment , manpower and the money do exist broadly to achieve whatever the mighty planning and executive mechanism dictates . |
| 10 | More than , Marenches said later that the Shah had told him , " I count on you always to tell me the disagreeable things that other people wo n't say . |
| 11 | No , just coming back home to show me the flaming car , and that 's what sa I did n't but I feel dead awful really , but I did n't jump up and down |
| 12 | ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’ |
| 13 | We shall be concerned here to establish what the main kinds are , and also to ask why they take the form , and occur in the species , that they do . |
| 14 | But most important , please decide today to give yourself the financial protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 15 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal , and I will take necessary steps here to pay you the first overseas royalty . |
| 16 | Well , I am here to tell you the opposite , and you 'd better believe me . |
| 17 | I am there to give them the ultimate challenge and I do . |
| 18 | Whilst everyone in Parcelforce is working hard to give you the best possible service , we do sometimes make mistakes . |
| 19 | Find out who will be there to wake them the next morning , if you are not on duty . |
| 20 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |
| 21 | The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London . |
| 22 | The council leader , Coun. John Williams , said he had yet to decide what the Labour group policy would be . |
| 23 | This is because in considering what are the interests of the shareholders the directors are not obliged actually to consider what the subjective desires of the shareholders might be . |