Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we right to think that this system , if system it can be called , is unsatisfactory ? |
| 2 | The extreme vulnerability of frail old people leaves them open to abuse if such matters are not recognised by those who manage services or support carers . |
| 3 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 4 | I find it hard to believe that this amount would be likely to deter someone from participating in a tournament . |
| 5 | Nowhere in Thucydides ' account is it safe to think that this expression includes the Spartans , and in the operations in the Megarid the Corinthians , and only the Corinthians , are mentioned by name on the Peloponnesian side . |
| 6 | As it is now the middle of October , I do not think it unreasonable to request that some action be taken in this matter as soon as possible . |
| 7 | ‘ Many of us do find it difficult to relax and that kind of thing . |
| 8 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 9 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 10 | The court held that the practice of making first offers of work to a selected group of people who had declared themselves available , and the practice of declaring oneself available to ensure that such offers would be made , whilst an arrangement " of mutual advantage " to the parties , was not one involving contractual commitments or mutual obligation . |