Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 2 | Moreover , Mary had a matter of her own to digest which at any other time would have been sufficient preoccupation . |
| 3 | She had done her best to snub him on that occasion . |
| 4 | And there usually was somebody ready to fight him for twelve , especially on a Saturday night . |
| 5 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 6 | Are you able to tell us in open session what sort of weapons are envisaged ? |
| 7 | Or are you happy to take it under this umbrella umbrella heading ? |
| 8 | Are we supposed to take anything for this do tonight ? |
| 9 | Unlike Meadow 's syndrome mothers , these women did not seem to relish their child 's hospital stay , nor were they willing to subject them to any investigation , however painful and unpleasant . |
| 10 | It concentrated instead on living examples of people who were judged highly creative , thereby making it possible to evaluate them at first-hand on objective personality tests or similar assessment procedures . |
| 11 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 12 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ My stand was that even if Kimberly was their biological daughter , was it right to put her through this ? ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , we could follow up people 20 years on to assess the results of our child care work , but even if we could successfully trace them , is it right to contact them after all that time when their spouses and children may not know of their earlier histories ? |
| 15 | If it is wrong to advertise cigarettes in some media ( e.g. , TV ) or in some places ( e.g. , in sight of schools ) , why is it acceptable to advertise them in other media ( e.g. , in the TV Times ) and other places ( e.g. , on the fronts of shops close to but not visible from schools ) ? |
| 16 | The strong simplicity of his ideas about life and the universe made it easy to link him with other men of understanding , so that for me the book seemed to be ringing with echoes of Hamlet and Richard Jefferies and the New Testament . |
| 17 | There is usually a square grid of lines on the backing , which makes it easy to cut it in straight lines , and a small roll can cover quite a few items . |
| 18 | Reluctant participators who start off with a limited range of interest and involvement in management are unlikely to find it easy to commit themselves to new and broader aims . |
| 19 | The South African government has declared the great white shark ( carcharodon carcharias ) a protected species , making it illegal to hunt it within 200 miles of the South African coast . |
| 20 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 21 | They find it difficult to defend themselves from such attacks . |
| 22 | The analysis of sin that occupies much of the second half of the book and which , perhaps fittingly from a literary point of view , distorts the balanced analytic framework of the role and nature of contemplative life in the first half , is frozen in a definitive icon in which the body of death is horriby manifested with a head of pride , back of covetousness ( worldly things that the anchoress turns away from ) , a heart of envy , arms of anger , a belly of greed , genitals of lechery and feet of despairing sloth which find it difficult to stir themselves to good works ( prayer and meditation for the anchoress ) ( 85.355a — 6a. – 154 – 5 ) . |
| 23 | Particularly with insects , whose chitinous exoskeletons make it difficult to consider them in anthropomorphic terms , how are we to discover the extent to which they might be acting intelligently ? |
| 24 | And was it necessary to repeat it like that ? |
| 25 | Commenting on Melby 's ‘ pessimistic but valuable appraisal ’ the US Minister at Saigon ( Heath ) felt it necessary to balance it with local French military opinion that , barring Chinese intervention or a massive increase in their aid to the Vietminh , guerrilla and terrorist activities could be reduced to a policing problem within two years . |
| 26 | Neither was he ready to admit it to this assured young gipsy who stood before him . |
| 27 | ‘ This meeting , having taken into consideration the proceedings of former meetings , and being informed that many respectable persons delay giving their names as subscribers while the proceedings of the committee are subject to be reported to the Odiham Society , and are under the controul [ sic ] thereof , find it expedient to detach themselves from that Society , the work on which they are engaged being of so considerable importance , the reformation and improvement of Farriery , requiring that it should be confined to that purpose and use alone , and be under the sole management and control of its own members . |
| 28 | The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form . |
| 29 | ‘ We are doing our best to replace them with good units , ’ King says . |
| 30 | If there is a delay of over 2 hours at the start of your journey from the U.K. we will do our best to provide you with light refreshments . |