Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the majority of people believed that the USA was right to try to prevent a Communist take-over in South Vietnam . |
| 2 | As a community are we willing to risk building a just peace rather than arming ourselves for war ? |
| 3 | A FORMER Belfast Lord Mayor has publicly stated that he would be prepared to kill to prevent a United Ireland being forced upon Ulster . |
| 4 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 5 | Obviously , the market must be prepared to consider taking a high proportion of their future holidays in the Lake District . |
| 6 | Such flexibility was easier to foster given a basic consensus amongst the staff . |
| 7 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 8 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
| 9 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 10 | Without the right to asylum , Germany thus becomes much like the other members of the European Community , whose ministers met on June 1st to try to devise a common system for dealing with refugees . |
| 11 | Alternative approaches which are also easy to use include a soft copy form presented to the users who ‘ fill in the forms ’ to state their requirements ( see Figure 6.3 ) or icon/mouse systems , which use graphical symbols ( icons ) representing such requirements as filing ( file cabinet ) , deleting ( wastepaper basket ) and so on . |
| 12 | Despite these benefits it is too early to pronounce fundholding an unqualified success . |
| 13 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 14 | It was a new experience for her to want to open up to someone , especially a man ; but another part of her was relieved to have found a kindred spirit she could confide in . |
| 15 | The US administration was reported on Nov. 10 to have begun a diplomatic campaign to discourage major industrial countries from exporting militarily useful technologies to Iran . |
| 16 | It will of course be impossible to attempt to evaluate an overall programme rather than assess a specific course , if no clear overall programme exists . |
| 17 | He dosed it up , obviously delighted to have found a reasonable explanation . |
| 18 | So one has a set of events , a region of space-time , from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer . |
| 19 | The two main beneficiaries are the local Sue Ryder Home and the Keighley Adult Training Centre for the mentally handicapped , but £2,500 was donated in 1986 to help start a special child development unit at Airedale Hospital . |
| 20 | I note in particular the first meeting of the National Committee which I was glad to see made a good start . |
| 21 | okay you find it hard you find it hard to do to make a special effort what is it you have to make a special effort to do ? |
| 22 | When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment . |
| 23 | At such schools , a pupil is more likely to consider pursuing a political career than is the case with pupils attending an inner-city comprehensive school with no such tradition . |
| 24 | We are lucky to have secured a reliable supply of crosswords and will try to include a crossword in every other Journal — starting with this one : turn to page 17 |
| 25 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
| 26 | Pollution is likely to have played a key role in the mass die-offs of seals , dolphins and fish and other natural disasters in recent years , she claimed . |
| 27 | Financial considerations are likely to have played an important part in the decision that redundancies are necessary . |
| 28 | Their enthusiasm for such work is likely to have played an important part in the results . |
| 29 | Once established , however , this function is likely to have assumed an over-riding importance at those towns which were most suitably placed to exploit its potential . |
| 30 | When you decide to practise , do not choose a difficult water , or difficult fish , where you are likely to have to wait a long time for a bite . |