Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sadly , the Board was virtually alone in this support , and to understand why , we must return for a moment to the sixties , when the test was used almost exclusively to curb the spread of erotica . |
| 32 | The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike . |
| 33 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 34 | It was tolerated well enough to become a useful drug , but it had a very brief period of action ; 6-MP is attacked by the enzyme xanthine oxidase , a normal constituent of the human body ( and of widespread occurrence elsewhere ) and is converted to a substance , thio-uric acid , which is not active against tumours . |
| 35 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 36 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 37 | As sober as judges and as reverent as pilgrims , we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of disco and rock , the funeral of Sinead O'Connor , the birth of cool . |
| 38 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 39 | The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable . |
| 40 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 41 | Furthermore , new teachers were not being trained fast enough to replace the trained teachers who were leaving the profession . |
| 42 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |
| 43 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 44 | The chemical structure of the polymer is also an important feature in the crystallization ; for example , polyethylene crystallizes readily and can not be quenched rapidly enough to give a largely amorphous sample whereas this is readily accomplished for isotactic polystyrene . |
| 45 | X-rays can detect only big tumours , and bronchoscopes — flexible fibre-optic cables which relay pictures from the inside of the lungs to the outside world — only see those that have spread far enough to wrinkle the lining of the lung . |
| 46 | This is shown here ( Fig. 1.4B ) for the premaxillary suture , which is in the process of opening but has not yet proceeded far enough to destroy the integrity of the skull . |
| 47 | Once on the new side , the rig should be thrown well forwards to complete the turn on to the new tack . |
| 48 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 49 | Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can . |
| 50 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 51 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 52 | Without exception , their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath . |
| 53 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 54 | Abortive attempts in our time to shuffle off the whole experience and make light of its impact have only begun comparatively recently to attract the attention of psycho-analysts . |
| 55 | All you have to do is to understand the right habit or growing style of the crops and time your sowings and plantings with that in mind , ensuring that soil fertility levels are kept high enough to support the extra output . |
| 56 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 57 | It is difficult to get the bottom strained tight enough to prevent a small lamb from burrowing underneath , and the lengths are not easy to roll up neatly after use . |
| 58 | Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology . |
| 59 | Budding classicists amongst you will quickly realise that Intel has managed rather clumsily to match a Greek prefix to a Latin suffix . |
| 60 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |