Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 2 | Only the exhortation to ‘ all Party organizations ’ on 28 March 1933 to carry out a nation-wide boycott aimed at Jewish businesses , goods , doctors , and lawyers , starting on 1 April , concentrated explicitly on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 3 | The Ulster Unionist Party , led by Mr James Molyneaux , has been careful to rule out a formal coalition and will decide on an ‘ issue by issue ’ basis whether to support a minority government . |
| 4 | From Trap 6 over the testing 620-metre course , Lady Riptide ( 5.59 ) should quickly draw clear to set up a commanding lead . |
| 5 | Fortunately the software makes allowances for this and it 's generally quicker to knock up a quick likeness and then use the editing features to tidy up . |
| 6 | There was an immediate indication that he was prepared to turn over a new leaf . |
| 7 | Throughout our period , however , we see that Whigs were prepared to hold up an independent standard by which to assess the legitimacy of authority , that of fundamental law or natural law , and they were willing to challenge the legitimacy of established authority ( whether royal or Parliamentary ) if power was exercised in violation of people 's natural rights . |
| 8 | Another to pay out a substantial sum was one of Scotland 's leading hill farmers , William Mitchell of Hazelside , Douglas , Lanark , who bought 102 units of quota at £46 . |
| 9 | They could get money by robbing a fruit machine , but it is easier to beat up an old woman and grab her purse . |
| 10 | This is the average number of hours that each worker is willing to supply over a given time period . |
| 11 | I 'm tired and depressed and afraid to take up a good job offer . |
| 12 | ( The Prinsep case was unusual in that the family were prepared to take out a private prosecution in the hope of retrieving their property . ) |
| 13 | The choice indicates how much the state is willing to take on an active role of managing national resources for greater international competitiveness , and in what form . |
| 14 | Suppose that the government , guided by these false prophets , decides that it is prepared to trade off a positive rate of inflation for a lower unemployment rate . |
| 15 | On one hand , it is possible to pick out a dominant instance by its relationship with other aspects of a social structure . |
| 16 | This makes it possible to set up a two-way conversation using only one pair of wires . |
| 17 | When establishing a subsidiary , local legal and taxation regulations must make it possible to set up a profitable subsidiary and allow the parent company to extract profits from the country . |
| 18 | Until this is achieved it is impossible to carry out a useful evaluation of the many alternative treatments available for patients with the complex problem of extrahepatic bile duct stricture . |
| 19 | It is easy to write down an equivalent definition of unc that is a straightforward recursion on syntax . |
| 20 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 21 | The Black Sea countries ( Bulgaria , Romania , the Soviet Union and Turkey , with Greece and Yugoslavia as observers ) met in July 1991 to work out an economic co-operation agreement [ see p. 38352 ] . |
| 22 | In wet areas , weeds and turf re-root and grow quickly and it is not easy to work up a clean tilth unless they are well buried and allowed to rot . |
| 23 | The second related issue is whether it is appropriate to set down a single structure which puts topics under specific headings , given the interdisciplinary nature of the subject . |
| 24 | Orient then took the lead with goals from Mark Cooper and Andy Jones , both from Simon Livett free kicks , before Paul Cavell made it 5–4 to set up a rousing finale . |
| 25 | Laos Following the award to BGS in August 1990 of a six-month Asian Development Bank consultancy , a BGS-led team comprising a geologist , an exploration geochemist , a bibliographer and a cartographer , together with a mineral economist from British Mining Consultants Limited , worked at the Department of Geology and Mines ( DGM ) , Vientiane , between September 1990 and March 1991 to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |
| 26 | Having read through the er N Y N Y six and N Y seven , I 've got to acknowledge that it 's er far from easy to draw up a unified strategy for employment land in North Yorkshire and I can sympathize with the County Council er in their difficulties with the methodology and I think that they 've adopted a very fair minded approach to this , they 've er highlighted weaknesses wherever they occur , erm and I think that will be very obvious . |
| 27 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's easy to think up a good idea for a restaurant . |
| 29 | It 's easy to think up a good idea for a restaurant . |
| 30 | However , it is impossible to lay down a precise test against which the adequacy of disclosure may be assessed . |