Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mainstream Labour left thinks it can call Mr Major 's bluff : he would rather swallow the Social Chapter , they guess , than lose the whole treaty . |
| 2 | Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail . |
| 3 | In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor . |
| 4 | On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated . |
| 5 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 6 | Too much control and predictability might eventually subvert the organizational goals . |
| 7 | He replied that an army of 5–6000 men might still successfully evade the Royal Navy and descend anywhere on the coast , so that the nation needed a minimum of 18,000 under arms , one-third to protect London , another third distributed throughout the country to crush any supporting rebellions , and the final third to provide a strategic reserve — an admirable analysis of the problem . |
| 8 | Both the increased cost and the loss in predictive validity will most hurt the poor and disadvantaged , who will be paying more for a test that is less likely to spot unfulfilled native abilities . |
| 9 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 10 | Which of the various legacies would most influence the post-independence press ? |
| 11 | The system will then reverse its motion and begin to contract , becoming once again a great ball of fire , and another ‘ big bang ’ will eventually trigger a new creative era . |
| 12 | If the Christians do eventually deliver a true case of satanic child abuse — and , who knows , God forbid , they may , for satanists are real enough and a bit of copycat crime is surely due after all this publicity — it will be seen by many to validate all their arguments . |
| 13 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 14 | But hard-headed calculations in both Washington and London in response to the grim realities of power politics do not wholly explain the remarkable Anglo-American relationship which developed from 1941 . |
| 15 | To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC . |
| 16 | Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole . |
| 17 | One good reason why such people ( if they want to become anthropologists ) should start off by studying a cultural system which is radically different from their own is that they can thereby undergo the traumatic experience of discovering that , in other societies , this deeply emotive private/public distinction may operate in quite a different way . |
| 18 | For it does rather need a constant stream of work to get full value from the investment in girders , gantries , hoists and related hardware that were installed for manipulating ( and originally for dismantling ) huge aero-engines . |
| 19 | During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation . |
| 20 | The Training Trust are inviting mums and children to submit their homemade cards — and a £1 charity donation — to a competition which will eventually yield a national winner . |
| 21 | A robin will attack a bundle of red feathers , a socialist politician will verbally attack a right-wing conservative , a spider will attempt to tie up a vibrating tuning fork if the tip is placed upon its web . |
| 22 | However , drawing a line so roughly has its limitations : the eye can deceive and the heart may secretly desire a particular outcome . |
| 23 | I 'd much prefer a menu-driven program built into WordPerfect itself . |
| 24 | Certain Western journalists claimed on the basis of Soviet sources that ‘ Moscow would much prefer a negotiated settlement which would involve the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan along neutral lines ' to a large increase in Soviet troops deployed in Afghanistan . |
| 25 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 26 | This low specificity of DNA binding might perhaps explain the promiscuous transactivating phenotype of 140k in transfection assays ( 15,16 ) . |
| 27 | They would perhaps build an occasional Bailey bridge between one another because of Sam . |
| 28 | The legal terms of this agreement will not necessarily govern the day-to-day relationship between the record company and artist , but it will set out the obligations of both parties , or ‘ who is responsible for what ’ . |
| 29 | It never did much good and even now with all our antibiotics we can not greatly influence the final outcome . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , but could you perhaps spare a little time to come and talk to the Chief Superintendent ? ’ |