Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 2 | I WAS interested to read that one in five people does n't sleep well . |
| 3 | A cross between downhill skiing and walking , the steps are easy to learn and anyone of any age can happily master them . |
| 4 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 5 | Given that a pharmaceutical company may have a database of perhaps hundreds of thousands of previously synthesised compounds , it is important to be able to ask whether anything in that database resembles a current lead compound or molecule of interest . |
| 6 | None of them had ever supported Mr Hitler and most were shocked to hear that anything like that had been going on . |
| 7 | Consequently , it is not surprising to find that none of these mosaics is assignable , confidently , to a period before 330 ( or that all but no. 16 could be of the third quarter of the fourth century ) . |
| 8 | It does n't seem plausible to think that anyone with any knowledge of the difficulties which would have been presented by trying to recover and rebuild enough aircraft to produce the film would have seriously considered the idea . |