Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 2 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 3 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 4 | Holding a dog properly to enable a vet to make the injection requires skill and , on some occasions , a veterinary nurse may not be there to help . |
| 5 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 6 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 7 | In one case the doctor 's name appeared in a promotional brochure as medical adviser to a company marketing an electrical device that was claimed successfully to treat a range of conditions including migraine , arthritis , insomnia , and depression . |
| 8 | The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity . |
| 9 | But baseball is sure eventually to find a way to put its financial house in order . |
| 10 | She argues that we need to rethink the theories of moral development altogether to encompass a respect for both the masculine ‘ ethic of rights ’ and the feminine ‘ ethic of care ’ . |
| 11 | The idea is to protect American forces overseas from attack by ballistic missiles as soon as possible , and eventually to provide a defence for the United States . |
| 12 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 13 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 14 | Dauntless doubted whether she could direct her attention upon anything long enough to sustain a sense of faith . |
| 15 | By contrast , increased population counts will enable multiple retailers to identify towns which , for the first time , are large enough to sustain a branch . |
| 16 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |
| 17 | Small enough to swim under and around , large enough to support a man , and big enough to teach all of us a lesson . |
| 18 | Nevertheless tabular evidence demonstrates that non-traditional students and mature student entrants as a category perform well enough to support a policy of providing opportunities for adults previously unable to enter higher education . |
| 19 | In Mexico , where 51 per cent of farm units are infra-subsistence , that is , not big enough to support a peasant family , the peasant must find other forms of income ( Stavenhagen 1974 ) . |
| 20 | Sequoia , which has had its share of brushes with bankruptcy in the past , is now growing at around 30% per annum , and the market that it 's in , fault-tolerant Unix systems , is lucrative enough to support a number of players . |
| 21 | The ITA decided to split the Northern region into separate Lancashire and Yorkshire franchises , each of which would be large enough to support a network company , increasing the number of these to five . |
| 22 | Initially , Chilton has only been able to persuade the makers to turn out spools of line with a 70lb breaking strain , strong enough to tow a boat . |
| 23 | Just enough to see a nose and one eye . |
| 24 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 25 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 26 | But what could be strong enough to drive a man from his homeland , to face terrible dangers in the skies ? |
| 27 | Enough to drive a saint round the bend . |
| 28 | At first it seemed big enough to drive a train through . |
| 29 | In the process of satisfying the demands of the flood of participants , the inquiry 's photocopiers had dealt with over fifteen million sheets of paper , enough to demolish a forest of 1,000 trees . |
| 30 | This private viewing of The Gallery aims merely to paint a picture — in broadest brushstrokes — of Oxford 's most vibrant and cosmopolitan shopping development . |