Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year there were some , so the Liberal Democrats took the view that we could only properly set a budget at the capping level and that is a level at which we set our budget and it was a level at which we set our budget back in December and right through to this date . |
| 2 | So I 'd much rather seem a bit weak with Mrs Joe than shout at her , or hurt her , or hit her . |
| 3 | I would much rather see a return to the carefree approach by the like of Ballesteros and Lyle . |
| 4 | This , however , need not so much reflect a decline of the village as a social centre ( its past vitality has often been greatly exaggerated ) as the extension of a wider range of choice to those sections of the rural population whose ownership of a car or a motorcycle has granted them easier access to urban amenities . |
| 5 | Understood in this way a duty to serve the interests of the enterprise can sensibly only mean a duty to further the commercial success of the business . |
| 6 | The handwriting perhaps prejudices the reader against it , and misspellings like acused , juge , sentencet , can so easily make a teacher feel that the piece is incompetent and deserves low marks . |
| 7 | A fresh wind of educational change can so easily become a chill wind , however , and , if it does , the most vulnerable of our children will suffer . |
| 8 | His cast is wonderful , avoiding fussiness in a work whose circus-like twists and turns can so easily become a brawl . |
| 9 | After all , an editor can always write up the copy himself but he can not so easily produce a photograph . |
| 10 | The 5 million-word subset of the Longman Corpus can only reasonably provide a collocation dictionary of some 12,331 entries , allowing for reduction , repetitions and the low frequency of occurrence of some words . |
| 11 | No doubt one can only really understand a discipline from the inside . |
| 12 | ‘ We can not so certainly revoke a trust . |
| 13 | In that case a shortfall in one instalment will normally only justify a rejection of that one instalment . |
| 14 | She could just about manage a day away from London . |
| 15 | It 's a bit like somebody sort of can only just about kick a ball and you say , We 'll make him our centre forward . |
| 16 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 17 | He could just about ride a bike and he liked wrestling and playing football , usually in goal . |
| 18 | ‘ Fear that you might leave Czechoslovakia without first returning to your hotel , ’ he replied , then grinned wryly as he added , ‘ For the first time in my life I find that I ca n't think logically — for why would you take a train to Mariánské Láznë to leave Czechoslovakia , when you could more easily take a plane from Prague ? |
| 19 | hence she questions whether we can any longer construe a notion of ‘ outer space ’ , the space beyond the frame within which images or ideas are traditionally secured . |
| 20 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 21 | And what about Dieter Erdle — could he possibly also represent a threat in the mind of someone suffering that kind of delusion ? |
| 22 | Some years ago there was a vet , who besides always smelling of methylated spirits , would always conscientiously swab a horse 's neck with meths before giving an injection . |
| 23 | Every time that Sartre asserts the enveloping movement of the historical process , while adding emphatically that he has yet not proved that such a totalization exists , he must always simultaneously introduce a counterstructure of repetition , so that his argument seems to fluctuate , like the groups that he describes , ‘ in a state of perpetual detotalisation ’ ( I , 579 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll damned well buy a book and learn the art . |
| 25 | When payment is received the supplier should usually then issue a tax invoice within 30 days of the time of supply if the client is a taxable person ( reg 12(1) and ( 5 ) ) . |
| 26 | I can still barely hold a pen and can type only with two fingers . |
| 27 | To suggest that the courts will ever completely rewrite a statute is a great exaggeration ; and even judges who accept the literal rule in words will depart from it when the circumstances press them hard enough . |
| 28 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 29 | ‘ Not if I know Chopper. 'E 'll most prob'ly get a cab an' then do anuvver runner , ’ Freddie laughed . |
| 30 | I think he 'll probably only take a half wo n't he ? |