Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | And to justify the ways of God to men with such honesty , that is to say with such a complete account of what the price is which would have to be paid , is of course no longer to justify but to enact the actual conflict . |
2 | A range of frequencies wide enough to ensure that it encompasses the resonant frequency of the sample v r is then examined . |
3 | Beckett 's failing narrators manage in their torrents of words only unstably to sustain in existence on a strange edge of death and silence , adrift in ‘ who knows what profounds of mind ’ ( Beckett 1984 : 288 ) . |
4 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
5 | And as such of course in run load you can make this thing go in the order of tens of nanoseconds probably less to recognize an image . |
6 | … let the organization of a canine animal become slightly plastic , which animal preyed chiefly on rabbits , but sometimes on hares ; let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease and the number of hares to increase ; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares , and his numbers would tend to decrease ; his organization , however , being slightly plastic , those individuals with the lightest forms , longest limbs , and best eyesight ( though perhaps with less cunning or scent ) would be slightly favoured , let the difference be ever so small , and would tend to live longer and to survive during that time of the year when food was shortest ; they would also rear more young , which young would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities . |
7 | Verkehrsberuhigung means to lessen the disadvantages of traffic yet still to keep all the advantages of transport . |
8 | OXTON are in championship form with their recent run of success almost enough to have landed a Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition title . |
9 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
10 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
11 | If the period of historic relevance is measured in hundreds of years , then even periodic recopying and migration to new generations of hardware will not effectively provide for the preservation of information long enough to meet historians ’ long-term needs . |
12 | In 1989 , Islander crossed the Bay of Biscay once more to cruise the north coast of Spain from San Sebastian to Santander . |
13 | He gives them the best working conditions and levels of pay high enough to sustain their motivation . |