Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
| 2 | Heat the thread of the bulb very carefully to melt the glue , remove thread slowing drawing out the filament , do not break the electrical or filament will , just wo n't work pour the liquid into the bulb and slowly lower the filament back dipped in some . |
| 3 | An example is the trial currently underway to see whether breast cancer screening by mammography is better yearly than every three years . |
| 4 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 5 | I think that one just has the luck very occasionally to run through periods where one can be happy . |
| 6 | A few minutes ' facial sauna , however , is fine because it warms the skin just enough to facilitate absorption . |
| 7 | If this happens , it is important to move the stick forwards sufficiently to ensure that the glider does not re-stall . |
| 8 | After we 've made that hole in the top we 'll lift the fuselage high enough to drain most of the water from it . ’ |
| 9 | The new public concern about the social impact of movies led the industry yet again to put its own house in order by establishing a new Production Code . |
| 10 | so I thought he , he 's changing things he 's saying well I do n't think this is suitable and I do n't think my way of tackling this is suitable because he 's used to dealing with different kids , although they 're a similar age , they 're not very motivated or mighty but they 're more motivated than these kids , but he says like he 'll turned back towards the black board and he 'll be writing and they 're shouting abuse at him , F ing and blinding and he says it makes me so angry because I do n't know the voices well enough to know who 's saying it |
| 11 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 12 | Wearing an apron , with her sleeves rolled up and her hair tucked under a duster , Rosie stopped polishing the brasswork on the beer-pumps long enough to throw her a cheerful smile . |
| 13 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 14 | The only reason for a backswing is to take the club far enough to gather sufficient speed to hit the ball an appreciable distance . |
| 15 | Hugh hesitated and then did so , undoing the neck just enough to stuff in half a loaf and some smoked meat , giving no-one a chance to see what else he had in it — not that anyone cared . |
| 16 | She stares straight ahead , but she has opened the window just enough to eavesdrop on the interview taking place on the pavement outside , between Rainbow and the little dove . |
| 17 | I hugged the bundle more tightly to increase the warmth . |
| 18 | There is certainly a case for enforcing the law more strongly to prevent under-age people buying such weapons . |
| 19 | The West Indies will hope their pace bowlers can dismiss the Australians cheaply today to have any chance of a positive result . |
| 20 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 21 | The procedure works by asking the child initially simply to imitate a single sound — for example , /suh/ . |
| 22 | However , even at positive angles , a sudden closing of the throttle followed by the model striking the ground can deflect the blades far enough to cause contact . |
| 23 | This clock runs the sequence of l.e.d.s at a very rapid rate for a fraction of a second and then halts the process very quickly to leave just one of the indicators illuminated . |
| 24 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 25 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 26 | Failure to have that person will almost always mean that there is an inability to build the business sufficiently quickly to attract new high-quality people or retain existing staff , and build a profit base . |
| 27 | Doohan eases off the throttle just enough to bring the Honda approximately into line before he keels her over once again . |
| 28 | There 's a theory being nurtured in certain quarters that Microsoft Corp Windows NT is less a strategic product than it is a dike against Unix and that Microsoft is trying to freeze the marketplace long enough to bring on Cairo , the Taligent Inc/Sun Microsystems Inc Project Distributed Objects Everywhere-like object-oriented environment it 's working on . |
| 29 | The 8 eyelet Air Wear brown was by far the most popular , with the laces drawn through the heel tag & the trousers high enough to reveal this . |
| 30 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |