Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President and the Assembly of the Republic ( formerly the National Assembly ) were henceforth to be elected directly by universal suffrage and secret ballot . |
| 2 | Better to live in hope — and better to be shot cleanly through the head than be smashed by the surf and stripped of his flesh by the knife-sharp coral . |
| 3 | The government 's plan is that tax-dodging is suddenly to be made dramatically more difficult , by reorganising the tax-collecting system and making it easier for the taxman to spot the dodgers . |
| 4 | I liked his gentle , unimpeded sense of flow in the opening Andante dolce ( his slightly brisker tempo does n't quite achieve the same buoyancy as Richter ) , and his finely controlled phrasing and subtle ‘ nodal-pointing ’ are much to be admired also . |
| 5 | In the near future , following a Russian Presidential Decree , a centralised fund for the storage of captured art treasures is apparently to be set up , a kind of depository with restoration facilities . |
| 6 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 7 | Christopher Gore , the son of a nuclear scientist and himself a brilliant academic , waited patiently to be let in to Bristol Crown Court , where he was to be accused of killing his father and his mother . |
| 8 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 9 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 10 | One option that had been canvassed was for staffing ratios and care standards merely to be maintained rather than improved as the hospitals declined . |
| 11 | We should remember that he does not claim definitely to be refuting the Aristotelians , but merely to be pointing out what may be said against them . |
| 12 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 13 | Have letters large enough to be seen easily from a distance . |
| 14 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
| 15 | But before he 's even fit enough to be flown home , doctors say he 'll have to spend at least a fortnight in hospital . |
| 16 | Owner Richard Burridge ( above ) reports his tough grey almost back to his old self and the horse may be well enough to be turned out in a paddock today . |
| 17 | The only rational explanation was that the stimulus of being struck must have initiated the whole dream sequence , which , although apparently very lengthy , must have proceeded fast enough to be fitted in between the blow on the neck and waking up . |
| 18 | ( Langley is also a member of Animal Aid , an organisation with a radical image opposed to the use of animals in any research , who was unfortunate enough to be beaten up in 1987 by a member of an even more extreme splinter-group . ) |
| 19 | While anyone can be unfortunate enough to be struck down by an unexpected illness , your future good health is largely in your own hands . |
| 20 | Some seeds are light enough to be blown away but bigger seeds can only be shifted by animals and once again plants produce special food as payment for the job . |
| 21 | In this case the defendants , who were manufacturers of electronic components , collected on their land a large number of strips of metal foil , light enough to be blown about in the wind . |
| 22 | Do n't dither here ; it 's steep enough to be noticed very quickly , and the moves back left above the overlap need presence of mind . |
| 23 | It was bad enough to be slumped here like a heap of old clothes . |
| 24 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 25 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 26 | Stringfellow was an outstanding designer and builder of small lightweight steam engines , but his model aeroplanes suffered from the twin disadvantages of being too large to be fully tested indoors , and not stable enough to be tested out of doors . |
| 27 | Very few teachers are qualified to make assessments on the basis of linguistic criteria , and Rosen and Burgess 's categories were in themselves vague enough to be interpreted differently by different teachers . |
| 28 | I started crying and saying that he was only a minor , that he was n't old enough to be taken away , and had n't done anything . |
| 29 | He was not foolish enough to be taken in by such tales ! |
| 30 | This wastage offended Laura too , who thought the fabric was quite good enough to be used somehow and decided to try selling remnants . |