Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone . |
| 2 | The preferences could include as many or as few of the candidates as the voter wished . |
| 3 | While the proposition that RoboCop is a more interesting film than , say , Star Wars might meet with little opposition among the over-12s , preferring Day of the Dead to RoboCop might appear downright eccentric or absurdly cultish to some readers . |
| 4 | In many respects they may appear somewhat crude and certainly there is much room for improvement , particularly in the areas of whole embryo culture and precise manipulations of the embryo , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 5 | You can achieve much softer and more interesting effects by using different types of light carefully positioned around a room . |
| 6 | Williamson assumes that at least some people might behave in strategic , guileful ways , if they can do so undetected and thereby promote their own interest . |
| 7 | Someone who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy . |
| 8 | Entropy measures the expected surprise of a situation , and all these algorithms are designed to search for explanations which make the world appear more coherent and less surprising . |
| 9 | It should have made him feel more imprisoned than ever , but instead brought an unexpected breath of freedom . |
| 10 | In this way you are making a contribution to the care of patients and will feel more relaxed and therefore able to acquire new skills and learn about the particular specialty you are working in . |
| 11 | The-CAB door may have been officially ‘ open ’ but minorities were not accepting the invitation , It was felt that the way to remedy the situation was by recruiting more black advice workers so that black clients would feel more comfortable and so that black workers could help white workers to better understand black clients . |
| 12 | The locked door — if it was really true — made him feel more despondent than ever . |
| 13 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 14 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 15 | I thought she would grow really angry but instead she just pushed past me at the door . |
| 16 | In Britain , the government has yet to place its safer-sex advertising aimed at ‘ men who have sex with men ’ in non-gay publications , thus by-passing those men who do not identify as gay and so are least likely to be well-informed because of their minimal contact with the gay scene . |
| 17 | Hair may well grow back finer and more sparse . |
| 18 | It made him feel even worse than before . |
| 19 | A ‘ Crime Audit ’ can tell you the scale and cost of crimes against your business and should also show how adequate or otherwise your existing security practice and management structure is in tackling this problem . |
| 20 | Shakespeare uses it to make us feel how complex and deeply inward is the knot of life , the knot which , while it remains tied , causes Cleopatra to be alive rather than dead . |
| 21 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 22 | There are quite a few people in this town ( my agent included ) who will feel pretty sick or even shamefaced ( I hope ! ) when presented with this coming segment . |
| 23 | Moreover , many older people may feel too embarrassed or morally outraged to discuss the subject , especially with younger people , and if so , the subject is often best left alone . |
| 24 | Yeah , it had that really feel to it like it does n't feel too alcoholic and then suddenly goes whooooooo |
| 25 | which can be compared with Dame Sirith : Yet there are details of the Interludium that would appear very strange if solely attributable to a northern English redaction of an East Midland text identifiable as the source of the Dame Sirith that we know . |
| 26 | You strike me as a basically good-natured and decent girl , and if I can be of assistance in putting you back on the right path , I shall be happy to oblige , so long as you do not expect too lengthy or too frequent an exchange . |
| 27 | ‘ You make it sound rather cold and rather uncaring . ’ |
| 28 | Cane and wicker will look lighter than wood ; white-painted pieces will look less conspicuous and therefore less space-consuming than dark . |
| 29 | It is amazing that you can look so undignified and yet sound so much more authoritative ! ’ |
| 30 | And yet it 's actually made him look much older and less attractive . |