Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 2 | Theodora had spread out the Ordnance Survey and fended off Tobias long enough to make out a route . |
| 3 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 4 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 5 | America seems critical of just about everything Japanese : its persistent trade surplus , its reluctance to liberalise rice imports , its failure so far to provide even a token force in the Gulf . |
| 6 | At first it had seemed he was only there to sit out the war with his French woman , but then the summons had come from the Dutch army and Isabella had known that her husband would follow Sharpe . |
| 7 | We are readily persuaded to postpone any criticisms we may have of his mode of telling the story , and the next two lines make it clear that the tale is only there to bring out a moral . |
| 8 | First the polarisation detectors were not far enough apart to rule out the possibility of overlapping single-particle wave functions ; and secondly the pairs of detected photons were not space-like separated — a signal travelling at the speed of light could have passed between the two sets of apparatus . |
| 9 | After a while , two soldiers in khaki ponchos came up the hill and asked us somewhat apologetically to put out the fire . |
| 10 | To finish in style , we spent a luxurious four days in Palm Springs — lying by the pool — in temperatures of 120C , just enough to finish off the tan . |
| 11 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 12 | It 's just that I have arranged to meet him tonight sometime to sort out a few things for me would of made a lot more sense if he 'd been here ! |
| 13 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 14 | Gordon Ellis of the Vectis Flyers , Isle of Wight , uses marker pens to apply his Dragon decor , though not always enough to ward off the evil intent of competitors ! |
| 15 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat candidate , said Labour 's plans would not provide enough money quickly enough to sort out the country 's homelessness problems . |
| 16 | It 's that flippancy that makes the listeners love him ; three hours ’ broadcasting a day is usually enough to use up the excess , but he does n't work weekends . ’ |
| 17 | If the strip is one of the two top or two bottom ones then the respective Apx message is printed and this is usually enough to determine where the subject must be placed . |
| 18 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 19 | In Berlin Bismarck followed events in France with increasing interest and , judging the moment precisely , began once again to push forward the candidacy of Leopold of Hohenzollern to the still vacant Spanish throne . |
| 20 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 21 | The response of the good data analyst is to welcome the discrepancy , and to examine the data even more closely to understand why the techniques differ ; new insights could be on the horizon . |
| 22 | Our armchair strategists say USL must achieve critical mass practically overnight to ward off the threat from Microsoft Corp 's NT and ensure a successful public offering in the next year or so . |
| 23 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 24 | Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles . |
| 25 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 26 | SIR — In turning over a new leaf , the Labour Party would do well also to turn over a new blossom . |
| 27 | Walking : With over 80 km of marked paths , there is plenty here to keep even the most ardent of walkers entertained . |
| 28 | It is flexible enough to bend around the channel in the woodwork , and hard enough to push back the steel Yale bolt . |
| 29 | Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property . |
| 30 | Mr Snowden was released by firemen just before 8 am and police opened one lane of the eastbound A45 around 10 am purely to help clear the tailbacks that had built up . |