Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , in extreme cases , the Courts appear willing to rely on this ground of challenge alone . |
| 2 | The weir at Melrose Cauld on the Tweed has been rebuilt to a dangerous design and is no longer considered safe to shoot at any point . |
| 3 | So it seemed sensible to move into this area , take advantage of that for ourselves , and provide them with a better service . |
| 4 | Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky . |
| 5 | May I and I hope that the young people will join us , they 'll feel welcome to join in any conversation during this session of of , you know ? |
| 6 | What a shame the UKCC has seen fit to behave in this manner , having started the exercise in such an open and consultative way . |
| 7 | Why had her aunt seen fit to ring at that moment ? |
| 8 | Should you feel unable to help in this venture for any reason would you please be kind enough to return the tickets to me . |
| 9 | Wycliffe brought Kersey up to date but seemed reluctant to enter into any sort of discussion . |
| 10 | We showed how in certain areas — for example home-school links , the curriculum , and whole-school management — clear policies can be appropriate and helpful ; and how in other areas — notably classroom practice — advisory staff seemed eager to prescribe in some detail how teachers should organize their classrooms and manage their teaching , a focus for policy and action at that level which seemed rather less appropriate . |
| 11 | From the cheapest Metro to the new flagship 800 coupe , a Rover comes with a luxurious quality you will search hard to find in any rival . |
| 12 | Despite the end of the Cold War , military alliances seem likely to continue in some form — the Gulf War demonstrated the inability even of the United States to fund a medium-scale war unaided , and illustrated , again , the limitations to state autonomy . |
| 13 | John Wright , the director of the CEGB 's technology planning and research division , told the inquiry : ‘ Whilst THORP may continue to operate beyond 10 years , it is not thought prudent to plan on this basis . |
| 14 | They prefer British to Irish rule and seem unlikely to move from that position . |
| 15 | The discovery in Charlie 's garden on that May morning fourteen years ago was just another reminder of the layers — the heritage — we all dwell upon yet seem able to ignore with such ease . |
| 16 | They seem able to communicate with each other without words and are extremely sensitive to atmosphere . |
| 17 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 18 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 19 | It always seems presumptuous to encroach on that self-sufficiency . |
| 20 | As narrow gauge steam locomotives have proved impossible to find in this country , contact has been made with the authorities in Poland where extensive closures of their systems in recent times will provide examples . |
| 21 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 22 | He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words . |
| 23 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 24 | If you feel able to respond to this request , the Regional Council will of course be most happy to pay your copying and other administrative charges . |
| 25 | It seems far to reconcile with any concept of a local democracy and what exactly is wrong with the present composition of authorities . |
| 26 | During the day he felt able to cope with any development , however disconcerting . |
| 27 | The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say . |
| 28 | It may seem odd to fret about this while economies are still sluggish , but in past recoveries governments have often kept their foot on the accelerator too long . |
| 29 | Newspapers exist in a competitive market-place and have to employ whatever means possible to survive in that market-place ; overtly political packaging and purity may be incidental to that objective . |
| 30 | He did n't seem able to agree with this version of his people 's history . |