Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 . |
| 2 | Anne 's job involved shift work , six o'clock until two , two o'clock until ten , and ten o'clock until six in the morning so she was rarely free to go out with Sarah . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry to butt in like this . ’ |
| 4 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 5 | Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects . |
| 6 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 7 | She 's obviously prepared to put up with your terms . |
| 8 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 9 | ‘ Your daddy was terribly brave to stand up to them alone , ’ said Cheryl , in awe . |
| 10 | ‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job . |
| 11 | It 's so much easier to fall back on ‘ That 's the way things are done ’ or ‘ It 's the way I was brought up . ’ |
| 12 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 13 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 14 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 15 | Much easier to get along with . ’ |
| 16 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 17 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 18 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 19 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 20 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 21 | Talking about his selection he said : ‘ I think that most of us look at paintings not so much to find out about them , but to find out about ourselves , for like a great novel or play , a great painting offers us a unique opportunity of investigating our own experiences . ’ |
| 22 | " The autumn gales 'll be on us in a few weeks , and the volunteers wo n't be so easy to come by after that . " |
| 23 | Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . " |
| 24 | And in a sense , he actually very neatly defined several different points without getting his knickers in a twist , and wearing different hats it would be so easy to come out with a muddled thing which would end up by being him feeling uncomfortable but him also being part of the Government and the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 25 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 26 | It is especially easy to see out of and manoeuvre in tight spots , which is why , apart fro anything else , you see so many of them being driven so aggressively in heavy traffic . |
| 27 | And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday . |
| 28 | Variously ascribed to Andrea di Lione , Pietro Testa and Mattia Preti , it is a fascinating art-historical curiosity , that in my opinion is sufficiently unusual to hang on to a while longer . |
| 29 | And he knows his next clanger will trigger yet another repeat showing — as well as threatening the first-team place he has worked so hard to hold down at table-topping Blackburn . |
| 30 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |