Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 3 | But long enough to learn something about the man . |
| 4 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 5 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 6 | Although I was not fortunate enough ever to see him in the flesh , I suggest that his picture should be tattooed on the brain of every aspiring judge . |
| 7 | He had also come to respect Irina for her ability so rapidly to transform herself into a reasonably well-dressed , reasonably good-looking girl . |
| 8 | perhaps like to mention it at the end of the session and I can arrange to get one of those sent to you . |
| 9 | Better surely to embrace it in the company of those one has loved , and as one slips away , to know from their tears how much they have loved one too . |
| 10 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 11 | It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed . |
| 12 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
| 13 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 14 | Still not enough to tempt you from the tourist route ? |
| 15 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 16 | However , the basic National Insurance retirement pension by itself is not enough to bring her above the point where tax begins to be charged , so if she has no other income apart from this , she will not be asked to pay tax . |
| 17 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 18 | just enough to leave me with a strange sense |
| 19 | Of great importance was the real incentive to [ Bunn ] not only to dis-embarrass himself of a thoroughly unsatisfactory debtor by getting a guarantee secured by a charge on a registered property , but also of producing a satisfactory answer to the awkward interest being shown by those at London Head Office . |
| 20 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 21 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 22 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 23 | When , however , a statute provides that compliance with its provisions shall be enforceable by civil proceedings by the Crown for an injunction , and particularly if this is the only method of enforcement for which it provides , the Crown does owe a duty to the public at large to initiate proceedings to secure that the law is not flouted , and not simply to leave it to the chance that some relator may be willing to incur the expense and trouble of doing so . |
| 24 | He did not explain what he meant , but went on rather quickly to tell me about the appointment , and for a while we talked about Cambridge , and places and people that we both knew well . |
| 25 | Provided the necessary resources to maintain an active programme of exhibitions are made available , the Library is now in a better position than ever before to project itself to the public at large through the use of instructive and stimulating displays . |
| 26 | ‘ I would like once again to thank you for the major contribution you 've made to our AIDS education programme this year . |
| 27 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 28 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 29 | We 'll wait for the lads up there to tell us about the blood and we 'll read the autopsy report . |
| 30 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |