Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In creating this ambitious organization and in writing its constitution , I envisaged a powerful group of Sinophiles and business men working together to promote a greater measure of trade between Canada and China . |
| 32 | They had come together to attend a major seminar on the development of an independent and pluralistic African press , held in Windhoek , Namibia , 29 April — 5 May . |
| 33 | We have limited the field to stored-program computers , and we further limit the field to general-purpose computers ; that is , to computers with an instruction set rich enough to perform a wide variety of tasks . |
| 34 | In a garden large enough to include a wild herbage meadow , or where an established orchard can be converted for the purpose , soil preparation must aim to reduce , not increase , fertility . |
| 35 | When eventually landed and sold at auction there was widespread interest in this novelty , as well as sufficient demand from fishmongers and pastry-cooks for Leftwich apparently to realize a considerable profit . |
| 36 | Each sub-unit is assumed to behave like an entropy spring and is expected to be large enough to realize a Gaussian distribution of segments ( i.e.> 50 carbon atoms ) . |
| 37 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 38 | There is a simple statement of intent in the Gracious Speech , but of itself that is not enough to stimulate a lumbering giant like British Rail into market-style change . |
| 39 | On Saturday 9 November University musicians past and present will be joining together to perform a varied programme of Baroque music in aid of the Foundation ( see advertisement on page 43 for details ) . |
| 40 | After rounding the last mark incorrectly , they returned , losing places in the process , only to catch a submerged dustbin on their keel . |
| 41 | I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum . |
| 42 | The extra ribs had been added , giving an enormous rib-cage , topped by gigantic if flaccid breasts , powerful enough to suckle a whole brood of infant monsters . |
| 43 | The size of the changes demands that all parts of the NHS ( at least in London ) pull together to provide a coordinated response . |
| 44 | Their letters and diaries have been threaded together to provide a fresh perspective on the lives of young airmen during times when their survival statistics were grim . |
| 45 | In what follows , I propose to examine some of the reasons for this , without going into a detailed exegetical discussion of the theories concerned , my purpose being merely to establish a sufficient platform for a phenomenological analysis , which is to follow . |
| 46 | Indeed , on the occasion one is fortunate enough to meet a great butler , far from experiencing any sceptical urge to demand a ‘ test ’ , one is at a loss to imagine any situation which could ever dislodge a professionalism borne with such authority . |
| 47 | We asked anyone who could do so to write a short statement about what the chapter was about . |
| 48 | On the subject of batsmen and short-pitched bowling ; none apparently has been game enough to demand a fuller length , especially as this involves addressing such request to the likes of Denzil , Balfour or Elconn . |
| 49 | Try perhaps to write a happy ending for this world and the people in it . |
| 50 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 51 | I forgot I 'd brought you ! ’ she exclaimed as the store detective pushed Miranda into her mother 's sleek legs , only to provoke a little skipping step to the side . |
| 52 | As for rugby … well , nothing quite so glaring , yet still enough to provoke a creeping unease about affairs at the highest international level , whether it concerns incomplete accounts for the 1987 World Cup ; unfulfilled profit projections , by a huge margin , with disturbing outline accounts emanating from the 1991 event ; and what seem to be , at the time of writing , so many unanswered questions about the 1995 World Cup . |
| 53 | In spite of what Professor Woodburn had said , it was a little cooler in Washington Square , especially as they were lucky enough to find a vacant seat under a tree . |
| 54 | The bi-word filter eliminated some possibilities but was not good enough to find a single interpretation . |
| 55 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 56 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 57 | Following this reduction to a less serious ' offence , sentencing policy seems to be that the offence of taking vehicles without consent is not in isolation deemed to be serious enough to attract a custodial sentence . |
| 58 | The provision of homes small enough to provide a reasonable place of residence was , and still is , insufficient for all mentally handicapped people in mental handicap hospitals to leave them . |
| 59 | It was wide enough to provide a stable grip on the timber edge , and could be adjusted rapidly . |
| 60 | The path was narrow and climbed steeply between thickets of gorse which were in flower ; nothing to be compared with the dramatic spring show but enough to provide a few patches of welcome colour against the sombre background of the moor in November . |