Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teaching aids must not be introduced solely in order to save time , but must make possible an increase in understanding for the learner . |
| 2 | There was an intensified sense of a gap between present and past , and of the need to find a way of bridging it which would make possible an adequate statement of belief for the present day . |
| 3 | ‘ You may think this an impossible request , ’ I said , ‘ but I 'm trying to trace a man called Smith . |
| 4 | He is very busy , and can only spare half an hour . |
| 5 | That 's because we did n't want half an hour and he wanted half an a hour . |
| 6 | However , the heavy rainfall could make this an uncertain crop so dairying and sheep formed the main enterprises on most units . |
| 7 | The use of AID would make this an unlikely event . |
| 8 | Yet the cases which fail to set up trusts all fail for the same good reason : because they do not make clear an intention on the part of the settlor that a trustee should be legally obliged to a beneficiary . |
| 9 | Conciliation officers are often reluctant to express an opinion about the likelihood of success before the tribunal , but will make clear an opinion whether the case appears to them one which is strong or weak and so ought to settle . |
| 10 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 11 | They could n't even wait half an hour . |
| 12 | Anyone who was born at the Elsie Inglis Hospital can take part and the story will depend on the participants but it will include half an hour of songs from the other two shows . |
| 13 | In the United Kingdom many midwives , obstetricians , and mothers would consider this an unacceptably high level of intervention in an otherwise normal physiological process . |
| 14 | Let us consider such an ethnographer as an invisible witness to a particular speech event . |
| 15 | Never , never would he consider such an event so insupportable as to … ’ |
| 16 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 17 | Investigators , astounded that the four could survive such an ordeal in the southern hemisphere winter , are puzzled by a number of details . |
| 18 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 19 | It is our view that designers should generally pursue such an economical , even terse , style but with a clearly-defined choice structure , regarding ‘ initial training ’ as a separate task . |
| 20 | Carefully constructed random samples may yield such an accurate response . |
| 21 | But does the book need such an ending ? |
| 22 | An unreliable horseman on the Stuart side , witnessing the first charge of the clans on the Cumberland army , believed no troop could withstand such an onslaught , and he rode south to Edinburgh declaring victory , causing the Jacobites of the city to dance and sing . |
| 23 | If the vendor has the benefit of warranties given as a result of that eariler acquisition and they are assignable , then the purchaser could seek such an assignment . |
| 24 | Venus could lack such an inner core because of the lower central pressures corresponding to its lower gravity . |
| 25 | Curious in that with the bulk of the country 's youth taking their cultural signposts from America and the more visceral thrills offered by rock'n'roll , it seems strange that such a dated and wrinkly musical form should enjoy such an upsurge in fortunes , particularly when it faced competition from sexier young pups operating in the rock idiom such as Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard . |
| 26 | Then an obscene rootless jealousy came over her , although , of course , she herself would never allow or enjoy such an unseemly embrace . |
| 27 | We shall describe such an approach as deriving from a text-as-product view . |
| 28 | At the turn of the century there was a fashion for race walking , and sports meetings and galas would often include such an event in their programmes . |
| 29 | Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ? |
| 30 | The court will grant such an order if it is satisfied that : ( a ) profits have accrued to any person as a result of that contravention ; or that ( b ) one or more investors have ‘ suffered loss or been otherwise adversely affected . ’ |