Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would , he thought with a smile , be most unfitting to explode on landing under the circumstances . |
| 2 | At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose it 's a little absurd to keep them all now . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think it 's dead vain to care about how you look . |
| 5 | I did so , feeling rather strange to stand half-undressed in the presence of a mummified corpse . |
| 6 | Any political party ought to have vision , but it 's rather strange to find your editorial ( ‘ The vision thing ’ , 8 May ) quoting William Beveridge on the evils of Want , Disease , Squalor and Ignorance . |
| 7 | It is most annoying to have unintelligible chattering somewhere behind you whilst watching the fish or beating the eggs . |
| 8 | He pulled the cap a little lower to shield his eyes from the glare , and said negligently , ‘ I did n't think it needed explaining . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you found somewhere pleasant to live in London ? ’ |
| 10 | Although it is most usual to think of salami as an Italian speciality , they are , in fact , made throughout Europe . |
| 11 | We would be most grateful to receive nominations before the closing date , March 31st . , . |
| 12 | If there is any separate documentation or further material useful to our Working Party , we should be most grateful to receive it . |
| 13 | If you have any comments you would like to make to me on this exercise I shall be most grateful to receive them . |
| 14 | I would , therefore , be most grateful to hear from anyone who has any memories or anecdotes of the company pre-1959 , whether from customers , employees or other analysts of that era . |
| 15 | I am most grateful to have the opportunity to develop once again on the Adjournment the problems associated with trunk roads in Leicestershire . |
| 16 | Ryarsh also makes non-standard special shapes , although it is most economic to select from the extensive range of standard specials . |
| 17 | A sleek black plastic casing surrounds this contender and it 's really rather pleasant to look at . |
| 18 | It might even be rather pleasant to ride through this strange , beautiful world with the silver moonlight . |
| 19 | Woman 's Own produced a rubber rhyme which sounds rather vulgar to encourage its readers to part with their old rubber corsets . |
| 20 | Somehow , I felt it was rather sacrilegious to mention Jesus 's name aloud where we were . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , Jenny , ’ said Sheila , ‘ we were all dead sorry to hear about your mother . |
| 22 | The fact that two years later the HMI Secondary Survey showed that popular fears about falling standards were largely unfounded did conspicuously little to change the prevailing attitude . |
| 23 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 24 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 25 | ( ii ) It then becomes rather palatable to describe f as the function given by unc or again as the function given by af = b , for all a ε A. |
| 26 | However , it seems rather unnecessary to introduce the negative sentence ( 2b ) into a consideration of the relationship between ( 2a ) and ( 2c ) which arises in the conversation presented earlier in ( I ) . |
| 27 | For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system . |
| 28 | Rather little to respond to I think which does n't mean that good work has not been done . |
| 29 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 30 | Curriculum managers reading this discussion may rightly feel that this magisterial balance has rather little to offer to their own pressing concerns . |