Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Darlington area has 2,000 ‘ orange badge ’ holders , reveals Durham County Council drivers considered sufficiently seriously disabled to warrant special parking exemptions . |
| 2 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 3 | And she was n't depending only on her instinct — yesterday he had come home too late to go to the Sabbath commencement service and looking very tired . |
| 4 | Looked far too small to play with Wallace up front . |
| 5 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 6 | First of all the reaction is carried out as normal to find the corrected temperature rise T1 due to the energy 41 evolved in the reaction . |
| 7 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 9 | Proba yeah but well we have n't got all that long to go now . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 11 | Greg Carey had had far too much to drink ! |
| 12 | She said tersely , ‘ It seems to me that Adam has had far too much to say for himself . |
| 13 | I 've got far too much to do . |
| 14 | The first was that , from the inter-war years up to the year of the study , men of all class origins have become progressively more likely to move into professional , administrative and managerial positions — or into the service class of modern British society . |
| 15 | That cooperation , however , is not easily obtained ; congress has become notably more difficult to master than before . |
| 16 | Although in the 19th century , the Federal Government was involved in a range of state and local functions , during the 20th century it has become far more difficult to differentiate national from state from local functions . ’ |
| 17 | So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it . |
| 18 | After recent mass arrests and tortures in Beijing , it has become even more difficult to claim that the government is unaware of the excesses committed in Lhasa . |
| 19 | In the 1970s the odds had lengthened against effective leadership from the White House ; there had been a succession of failed presidencies public confidence in political institutions had slumped disastrously and congress had become even more difficult to deal with . |
| 20 | Happily , since the introduction of independent taxation the system has become very much easier to understand . |
| 21 | Held up and then taken wide , Moscow Sea was given far too much to do . |
| 22 | Unlike lead , which the fuel companies eventually proved only too pleased to take out of petrol , sulphur does nothing for either the performance or longevity of diesel engines and it contributes to acid rain . |
| 23 | But there is also a more general competition and conflict among nation states , some aspects of which I discussed in Chapter 5 , that has proved so far impossible to overcome , or even to moderate substantially . |
| 24 | Perhaps he was brought in too late to succeed — I hope not . |
| 25 | Mutationes , which provided a change of horses but no accommodation , have proved much more difficult to identify , even though they should occur with greater frequency and at closer intervals than mansiones . |
| 26 | The idea of happiness is surely the sun at the centre of our conceptual planetary system — and has proved just as hard to look at directly . |
| 27 | It had seemed even more logical to choose this MP since he 'd built up a vast international organization devoted to security . |
| 28 | I had gone so far that to blow it at that point would have been a big disappointment for me , ’ he said . |
| 29 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 30 | But her first book of poems , The Colossus , published in Britain in 1960 , was put together too early to represent much of this new phase . |