Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways he was a throw-back to another era when golfers swung the golf club rather than tried to hit the ball with as much power as they could command . |
| 2 | Pull your hand down and move the carriage further if necessary to release the weaving yarn , then lay it across the needles from the other side ready for the next row . |
| 3 | In a post-imperial age it has shown a vitality more than sufficient to live to itself . |
| 4 | Now France was regarded with suspicion but not feared , and her Emperor forced to seek co-operation rather than able to impose his will . |
| 5 | We had arranged to meet Mrs Newton at her home at ten o'clock and I left my flat earlier than necessary to try to miss some of the rush-hour traffic , though how you avoid a rush hour which lasts from around seven in the morning to nine o'clock at night , I do not know . |
| 6 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 7 | These are some of the reasons that women are often happier working together and reluctant to fight their way into senior management . |
| 8 | Applicants clearly have a better chance of obtaining accommodation quickly if willing to accept a dwelling in one of the main settlements , and this in turn may be detrimental and cause long journeys to work . |
| 9 | Even excluding the huge cost of rescuing the savings and loan industry [ see p. 37412 ] by buying the assets of failing institutions ( estimated at more than $50,000 million in 1991 ) , most observers agreed that the automatic cuts imposed by the Gramm-Rudman law would amount to at least $60,000 million , a sum more than sufficient to push the country 's economy from its present slow growth into outright recession . |
| 10 | Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius . |
| 11 | And if the vagaries of distribution made it difficult to get It there were others on hand more than willing to give the new paper , Indica , and the new culture a boost . |
| 12 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 13 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |