Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although various clan-based rebel groups collaborated in an effort to oust Siad Barre , they have since been unable to agree on national leadership . |
| 2 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 3 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 5 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 6 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 7 | The calculations below are all based on weekly amounts so you must first work out how much your community charge is per week . |
| 8 | As local management of schools takes effect , many of the LEA posts described below are likely to change in character and probably lose some current functions . |
| 9 | Events such as the extension of the franchise , the seizure of power by working-class parties , the fractionated and conflictual basis of state institutions , the crucial mediating role played by state bureaucracy , the higher material and social benefits granted to the working class and , perhaps most importantly , the fact that the forms of political representation and state intervention in different countries have shown remarkable dissimilarities over time and space , have all been difficult to accommodate within Marx 's and Engels 's original formulation about the nature of power in capitalist societies . |
| 10 | He points out that most certified trainees come straight from school and so are cheaper to employ in the earlier stages of their qualification when they are of less use . |
| 11 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 12 | It would obviously be daft to organise in an area which is about to be kicked out of the state . |
| 13 | Problems are on their way , so be ready to cope with them with a stiff upper jaw , in typical British Bulldog style ( even if you 're not one ) . |
| 14 | In these circumstances , it is better to select a different adjective ( or more extended description ) in the first place , and so be able to dispense with the " very " and the " indeed " . |
| 15 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 16 | It would only be reasonable to give at least some of the credit for this successful adaptation to de Gaulle 's incessant proselytizing about the necessity of modernization . |
| 17 | In a general index it may only be possible to distinguish between different meanings of the one homograph by using scope notes or qualifying terms wherever the term arises , and thus in some way replace the context that is normally absent in respect of index terms . |
| 18 | Initially the currencies would coexist , but according to a radio report of May 22 , it would in future only be possible to pay in food shops with rubels , since " their basic function is to protect the internal market " . |
| 19 | The struggle against Clause 28 could only be effective seen within this context , and in alliance with other groups struggling against Thatcherism . |
| 20 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you will only be able to respond to task mail which is outstanding for you . |
| 21 | But in the future a diverse ecology will only be able to coexist with an efficient agriculture within the context of a planned land-use strategy , and such an attempt to resolve the various and conflicting demands on the countryside can not be successful without farmers surrendering at least some of their freedom of action to do as they wish with their own land . |
| 22 | I shall only be able to weep for him at night , after Enid has fallen asleep . |
| 23 | She would only be able to move within the circumference of that tree . |
| 24 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 25 | I feel sorry for the Tories , they will only be able to go for a cruise around the world once instead of two or three times a year . |
| 26 | ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us . |
| 27 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 28 | If you are working , then you may only be able to help at weekends . |
| 29 | The two countries now have the right to dump such material after 2007 , but they have undertaken to give serious consideration to finding land-based alternatives in the meantime and will only be able to dump after consultation with the other signatory states and in accordance with the " no-harm " principle . |
| 30 | But even on the Scottish Nationalists own forecasts — which depends on claiming all the revenues — the Scottish would still only be able to pay for existing public services by a tiny margin , pointing to a requirement for increased taxes for any additional administration . |