Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 2 | Naturally , when the seedlings are planted out , you will be all agog to see what the blooms will be like . |
| 3 | I 'm highly unlikely to find myself a husband and produce another child within the next eighteen months . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was so Irish to call it the Half House . ’ |
| 5 | It is usually only fair to deny you a right to appeal if top management has already been closely concerned in the matter because of your senior status or because the business is so small that there is no one left to whom you can bring your complaint . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ It seemed only fair to give her the chance to opt out , but I do n't think the Palace had much say in the matter . |
| 8 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 9 | In the circumstances the degree of kinship was sufficiently close to secure him the support he required . |
| 10 | Seumas Ban the steward whiles comes down special to give me the word , so that I can tell the bees . ’ |
| 11 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 12 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 13 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 14 | It 's not right to call it a boulder problem ; it has 16 moves and is 25 feet long . |
| 15 | 19 Then Joseph her husband , being a just man , and not willing to make her a publick example , was minded to put her away privily . |
| 16 | But I was told that unless I could produce a current driving licence or passport — neither of which I possess — they were not prepared to give me an account . |
| 17 | let me make you one up to objections , I 'm not prepared to give you a decision tonight , what would you say to them on that ? |
| 18 | In other words you agree with the customer , right , now take my words , you wan na think it over , right , we 're not prepared to give you a decision tonight , eh , now I 'd say something like , well that 's understandable , and we 've gone through as many things and debt this evening as we probably need to go through , do n't you agree ? |
| 19 | that is the hardest objection you can get , right , we 're not prepared to give you the decision on the night , I wan na think it over , it 's the same objection , right |
| 20 | It 's not easy to say what the narrating ‘ I ’ is doing at such a scene . |
| 21 | Thus it is not easy to predict what the law is either where the occupier of the land commits conversion by his refusal or where he is blameless . |
| 22 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
| 23 | The multi-millionaire Greek playboy , who spent three months in a British jail for possessing cocaine , wrote in the New York Observer : ‘ It is not hard to guess what the secret is . ’ |
| 24 | And the Greek playboy , who spent three months in a British jail for possessing cocaine , wrote in the upmarket New York Observer : ‘ It is not hard to guess what the secret is . ’ |
| 25 | Unfortunately this means that we are not able to send you a copy , but suggest that your university might be interested in investing in a copy once the 4th edition becomes available next year . |
| 26 | It has been held , however , that the licensing board is not entitled to make it a condition of the renewal of a licence that the applicant use his premises in a particular way , as , for example , by keeping a door locked : Smith v. Portsmouth JJ. [ 1906 ] 2 K.B . |
| 27 | Direct mail selling frequently uses database information to try and sell only to those people whom the seller thinks are the most likely to give him a sale . |
| 28 | It is rather unfortunate to call it a force because it is n't one . |
| 29 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 30 | I 'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because he is a decent manager who knows the ropes and who has been there before . |