Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 2 | ‘ … as they pass the three-furlong marker , it 's still the Guppy , who 's made every yard of the running , behind him a group of horses led by the grey Prince Charming , Cy McCray has yet to move on Breakdancer , Shine On has an awful lot still to do … ’ |
| 3 | When the erstwhile All Blacks ' captain , Wayne Shelford , was asked on Saturday evening if the appointment of Gavin Hastings , assuming it transpired , was to be seen as a victory for the Celtic fringe , he answered simply that it would have an awful lot more to do with his having some decidedly impressive credentials . |
| 4 | Secondly , the obligation to make the Convention ‘ practical and effective ’ coupled with an inherent obligation not to extradite in certain circumstances undermines the bilateral extradition arrangements entered into by States . |
| 5 | The unions concerned had , in effect , given an advance commitment not to contest the redundancies of the temporary workers . |
| 6 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 7 | There is an implied structure here to do with a competitive outdoing of the teacher 's role by the pupils in terms of information and experience . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal affirmed the existence of an implied duty not to prepare to compete and gave judgment for the plaintiffs . |
| 9 | Some protection is afforded by the practice of requiring the plaintiff to give an express undertaking not to use the information obtained without first seeking the leave of the court , and it was held in Tate Access Floors Inc . |
| 10 | The sudden , unexpected appearance of the bright blue tongue of this skink may startle an approaching predator sufficiently to make it think twice about attacking . |
| 11 | Sometimes , too , the return of even a class player such as Sean Lineen can actually have an inhibiting effect for there was an unmistakable tendency either to channel everything through the Scotland centre or else turn the ball back inside . |
| 12 | The work on show , produced by none recently graduated women artists , demonstrates an unmistakable commitment both to engage and challenge the painterly and formal conventions of modernism. 2 The group originally came together as a result of a set of interviews and articles coordinated by Rebecca Fortnum and Gill Houghton , published in a special issue of the Women Artists ' Slide Library Journal in 1989. 3 |
| 13 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 14 | Although the French offer of a ‘ half-peace ’ ( a truce for a set period of between fifteen and thirty years , in exchange for an English undertaking not to use the French royal title during that period ) was taken seriously at first , it was turned down when the English demanded a perpetual peace together with the grant of Normandy and an enlarged Aquitaine ( as in 1360 ) in full sovereignty . |
| 15 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 16 | Bartlett suggests that the individual has ‘ an overmastering tendency simply to get a general impression of the whole ; and on the basis of this he constructs the probable detail ’ ( 1932 : 206 ) . |
| 17 | Brooklands is an impossible car not to enjoy — a unique motoring experience |
| 18 | I , and the rest of the family , laid back , thought of England and enjoyed it , because it is an impossible car not to enjoy |
| 19 | Mr David Waddington , the responsible Minister , lamented that ‘ parliamentary accountability is an easy cause always to espouse ’ . |
| 20 | But for Seve Ballesteros there was an early trip home to see his week-old son . |
| 21 | With regard to other pets , puppies generally learn at an early stage not to pursue a cat sharing the home with them . |
| 22 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 23 | But you also need to learn at an early stage how to manage the paperwork on your desk . |
| 24 | The informant is responsible in law ( unless the information was provided solely for the journalist 's background reference and not for use even on an unattributed basis ) but the media , having promised confidentiality , will be under an ethical duty not to reveal the name of its informant . |
| 25 | Societies have an extraordinary capacity either to consider objects as having attributes which may not appear as evident to outsiders , or else altogether to ignore attributes which would have appeared to those same outsiders as being inextricably part of that object . |
| 26 | Scottish salmon farmers want to create an international organisation artificially to maintain the production and price of their product ( your report , 12 February ) . |
| 27 | They have an equal right not to dread going to bed alone , or waking up alone ; there need be no loneliness on quiet Sundays . |
| 28 | One minute he 's an ordinary guy , the next an articled headcase out to kill everyone . |
| 29 | To devotees of Victorian Gothic they are dark forces that terrorize by night , sapping vital fluids , sacrificing an innocent life merely to gratify a thirst . |
| 30 | Smoke detectors installed in hotel corridors have an alarming ability not to detect smoke . |