Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] in a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation .
2 If the word " real " in the sense of " actual " or " actually existent " has any discernible function at all , then it is only to indicate in a roundabout way that a certain proposition , or propositions , are actally true ; and " true " , as we have just seen , is itself eliminable as a propositional predicate .
3 The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available .
4 She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables .
5 On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal .
6 So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another .
7 We might say that the corporation was liable , meaning only to summarize in a convenient way the responsibilities we ascribed to each of the shareholders .
8 Waugh might have agreed even with the complaint about surface faults , which he was shortly to concede in a new preface and expunge by revision .
9 Adult dogs do take longer to settle in a new environment than puppies in any case , but you may find a dog whose history is well known .
10 ‘ No more games , ’ he said roughly , as he finally had to draw his mouth away to drag in a quick snatch of breath .
11 The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines .
12 With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains .
13 He was taken to hospital where doctors gave him charcoal to absorb the drug and sent him home to rest in a darkened room .
14 But the pace was much too hot for Beris , and when he peeled off after five laps Hupsith toiled on alone , slowing noticeably to finish in a modest 14 mins 20.3 secs .
15 To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury .
16 Trying to find somewhere to live in a strange country may also be a concern .
17 Otherwise , an American or British firm suffering from high domestic interest rates ought simply to borrow in a different currency , say yen .
18 In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it .
19 Luke , 23 , left the bungalow in Camberley , Surrey , nine months ago to live in a rented house five miles away .
20 As Bishop Holloway pointed out in our pages yesterday , the contemporary family seems increasingly to exist in a moral vacuum , with too many children left in control of their own leisure time while their elders are either absent or indifferent to their activities .
21 I graduated from Salford in June 1987 and came straight out here to teach in a privately-owned Academy .
22 Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money …
23 Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money …
24 The thick hempen cords were slung round our necks ; a dusty-robed priest appeared as if from nowhere to recite in a precise voice the last prayer for the dying .
25 Individual mineral replacement fabrics are , on the whole , easier to place in a diagenetic sequence ( e.g. Fig. 5.41a , b , c ) as relationships with preexisting diagenetic events are visible .
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