Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , drawing a line so roughly has its limitations : the eye can deceive and the heart may secretly desire a particular outcome . |
| 12 | I 'd much prefer a menu-driven program built into WordPerfect itself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , but could you perhaps spare a little time to come and talk to the Chief Superintendent ? ’ |
| 15 | When the children help , they sometimes suggest a different way of arranging things and even a small alteration can suddenly make a forgotten toy more popular . |
| 16 | Here , instinctual need provides the impetus for intelligent action , and an instinctual drive which would merely make a hungry dog bark at a suspended bone makes a hungry primate build , climb and reach with a tool . |
| 17 | The transsexual , once stabilized in the role long seen as the only natural one , may naturally want a normal family life . |
| 18 | The arrival of computer graphics will not only facilitate a wider access to geometry but will be , in an important sense , integral to doing geometry . |
| 19 | Erm I had rather thought that that you had been given erm sufficient information already to perhaps make a straightforward simple strategic choice between between districts . |
| 20 | Okay erm let's perhaps make a few comments then about the Vienna settlement itself . |
| 21 | It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir . |
| 22 | You will only make a powerful enemy . |
| 23 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 24 | If a bird pecks at these it will probably only make a small tear in the edge of the wing and the butterfly may then escape . |
| 25 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
| 26 | She could only make a calculated guess ; sheer horror at coming face to face with a former lover when the present one stood stiffly beside him . |
| 27 | As our bodies can only make a few of the necessary vitamins we need , they must be provided by what we eat . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd better make a million , then , ’ said Jessica . |
| 29 | Now we wait for the call from the bigger TV companies , who will obviously want a talented team such as us for one , or all , of their quiz shows . |
| 30 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |