Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith favours the view that decisive policing will most effectively quell the rioting , but concedes that premature intervention may well generate uncontrollable panic . |
| 2 | They are the most powerful because they can most effectively expose the discipline for what it is . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But suppose that the creditor accepts the debtor 's old car in satisfaction of a debt of £2,000 , protesting that he would much rather have the cash and eventually taking the car only because there seems to be no hope of anything better . |
| 5 | So I 'd much rather seem a bit weak with Mrs Joe than shout at her , or hurt her , or hit her . |
| 6 | I would much rather see a return to the carefree approach by the like of Ballesteros and Lyle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now , for pride , she would not crop it , she would not so much mark the occasion , but instead wore it always inside some sort of covering , hidden away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis . |
| 11 | It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge . |
| 12 | The contract will somewhat quaintly oblige the seller to unfasten as many assets as possible to make them movable . |
| 13 | Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest . |
| 14 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |
| 15 | He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him . |
| 16 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
| 17 | You 'd only just multiply the thing , you 'd spill petrol on an already burning flame . |
| 18 | Patrick and Jim could only just overhear the conversation that ensued , in quick-fire French . |
| 19 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His cast is wonderful , avoiding fussiness in a work whose circus-like twists and turns can so easily become a brawl . |
| 23 | Our Lord is teaching in these parables and encounters that the pursuit of wealth can so easily become an obstacle to entering the Kingdom . |
| 24 | After all , an editor can always write up the copy himself but he can not so easily produce a photograph . |
| 25 | There can be no reliable estimate that — ’ 10 per cent of the homes built in 1980 in New Mexico were made from adobe ’ , because Spanish Americans and Anglo Americans far from rich , can so easily convert the soil from beneath their feet into walls around new rooms , and they do this regularly with their own hands in enlarging their houses . |
| 26 | Without professional help we can so easily aggravate the problem . |
| 27 | Much nearer to the intense spirit of the original staging is Christine Bunning 's Marenka , taking her tone from the opening duet with Jenik , which can so easily project the character as a social and emotional misfit . |
| 28 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 29 | ‘ It will only further complicate the question . ’ |
| 30 | " I shall also give a warning to those present , to the effect that , in my view , nothing could be worse for the treatment of cholera than the warm baths , mustard-plasters and compresses recommended by Dr Dunstaple , which can only further reduce the water content of the blood No medicine could be more dangerous in cholera collapse than opium , and calomel in the form of a pill is utterly useless . " |