Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 2 | It was on the market and it was a grand gesture by the owner — one that was much appreciated by the parents of the nine children , and by the Action Committee that had come together so promptly to support them . |
| 3 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 4 | It was considered even less seemly to talk of the art market and collecting , but Bonito Oliva refused to bow to such conventions and , in 1974 wrote an essay entitled ‘ Mercato come opera d'arte ’ ( The market as a work of art ) , giving historical instances of how the market had often anticipated the choices of museums and art critics . |
| 5 | Ah 've not come this far just to put my tail between my legs … |
| 6 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 7 | Forward cyclic is applied only long enough to produce a slight nose down attitude in the model . |
| 8 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 9 | The ludicrous premise the film establishes — a nice Mafia man drawn intuitively to some preppy WASP — is pushed just far enough to make this more than abject pap , while leading lady Penelope Ann Miller , as Sabatini 's daughter Tina , simply has the looks to pull her part off . |
| 10 | They felt they had done well enough already to endure the service at Dull , and that there was no need to martyr themselves yet again ( the Reverend William MacIvor 's sermons were notoriously long and repetitious ) . |
| 11 | Successive governments have , as expected , deplored this state of affairs but have not done anywhere near enough to remedy it . |
| 12 | Federal and Capital is a small er but high quality er new er newsletter business in the States and er it 's done very well indeed to improve its profits . |
| 13 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 14 | Historical evidence shows that the so-called " present " tense could formerly be used much more freely to refer to the future than is now the case . |
| 15 | The people here are still hungry , but they 've got just about enough to survive . |
| 16 | These are ‘ low ’ standards compared to those of many other housewives in the sample , and the routine is there , but it is not anchored nearly so securely to set times of the day as Barbara Lipscombe 's . |
| 17 | It is a broad term , with the appropriate emphasis on the child 's potential , but has been used too often previously to contrast with ‘ blind ’ without consideration for the needs of pupils who have to use both tactile and visual methods for learning . |
| 18 | When he spoke , his voice was raised just loud enough to carry over the low-pitched brass rumbles . |
| 19 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 20 | In fusion reactions , light atoms are brought together sufficiently energetically to overcome their natural repulsion . |
| 21 | Cultural barriers have been cited rather too glibly to explain the serious difficulties which exist in providing acceptable services for ethnic minority populations . |
| 22 | We might be asked just as well to vote on any three pages picked at random out of ’ Alice in Wonderland ’ as on the motions before the House tonight . |
| 23 | Another two part ‘ quickie ’ , ‘ The Rescue ’ was put together fairly cheaply to introduce the new teenage lead played by Maureen O'Brien . |
| 24 | The only difference was that most of them had finished long enough ago to sunbathe on the terrace , not trudging off the mountain at 9.00 o'clock . |
| 25 | The church had , of course , been put there deliberately both to use and to nullify the site of the previous religion . |
| 26 | And , to pay him credit , I think once Mrs Thatcher had gone Douglas Hurd took advantage of the new leadership to drop the demand for a war crimes tribunal , and he has tried very hard recently to develop a common approach to the postwar situation with France , Germany and Italy , the three key countries . |
| 27 | And remind yourself that you have worked very hard indeed to achieve the success you are now enjoying and you jolly well deserve it . |
| 28 | I 've lived here long enough to know . |
| 29 | On 14 December 1542 , James V died in his splendid royal bedchamber at Falkland , the beauty he himself had created no longer enough to pierce the malaise of his profound melancholy . |
| 30 | Sometimes they cluster on a page like blackberries on a fecund bush , and made me wonder with a stab of unease whether my own writings on American politics and presidents have not managed equally often narrowly to miss the usage and the nomenclature . |