Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , many older people may feel too embarrassed or morally outraged to discuss the subject , especially with younger people , and if so , the subject is often best left alone . |
| 2 | But research indicates that guests are no more or less likely to use a phone when one is available in the room . ’ |
| 3 | Now ten years old , Ellie was more or less expected to run the house day by day . |
| 4 | In spite of having a range of injected plastic mouldings , there are always times when there just is n't anything for the size of a spar , the angle of fit , or sufficiently shock-absorbing to accept a crash , or to permit a kite to be folded . |
| 5 | It is just not realized that it is possible or even legal to arrange a funeral without employing undertakers — a gap in public knowledge which , of course , the undertakers do little to fill . |
| 6 | It is wholly unnecessary to go that far in the present case and I would not for a moment suggest that the common law of England is bound or even likely to follow every twist of the development of the common law in the United States . |
| 7 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 8 | Many patients with Alzheimer 's disease are too apraxic to guide liquid to their mouths or too apathetic to make the effort . |
| 9 | A most respectable party had taken the dining room but the landlord was either too flustered or too gauche to respect the privacy which , judging from their first expressions on seeing Hope , they felt they had ordered and even paid for . |
| 10 | Life gets more complicated when the typeset text is too long or too short to fill the space allocated on the page . |
| 11 | She wondered if he had ever brought Suzanne Regan here and found it more than usually difficult to wipe the thought from her mind . |
| 12 | Petra , it was pointed out , was rather nervy and scared by nature so Chris announced that a ‘ bold and confident dog would be the best mate and most likely to produce a lit-ter ’ . |
| 13 | Although deaf and dumb and so unable to raise an alarm , he threw himself in front of an approaching train in a valiant effort to save a mother and child . |
| 14 | It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena . |
| 15 | I saw David shovelling more and more , he was getting more tired , more irritable , more run-down and less able to control the madness that was going on around him . |
| 16 | For these reasons , and also because elderly patients were usually less mobile and less likely to leave the area , key workers for elderly patients were sometimes seen as redundant . |
| 17 | I am pleased to report that in 1992 I was able to substantially achieve one of the objects of my Presidency , the refurbishment of the main exhibition galleries at Portland Place , making it more welcoming to members and the public and better able to put the case for architecture . |
| 18 | A useful test is to imagine that you are at a party and someone asks you what you are writing about : your answer will have to be short , coherent and sufficiently interesting to hold the attention of a listener who does not have to listen to you . |
| 19 | It is very difficult and extremely inefficient to explain the use of various specific tools for information retrieval in the absence of the source materials . |
| 20 | It reached FFr55 million ( £6.5 million ; $10.5 million ) ( The Art Newspaper No.24 , January 1993 , p.20 ) — a French record — despite being classified a monument historique and thus unable to leave the country . |
| 21 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 22 | Any other use of such utterances is likely to be a spurious or counterfeit one , and thus liable to violate the maxim of Quality . |
| 23 | Also , it was discovered that monoamine oxidase removed certain amines from the blood stream — amines derived from food , chemically related to adrenaline , and thus liable to raise the blood pressure . |
| 24 | They had to be well-proportioned , elegant and behave as rulers of a kingdom and thus able to command the attention of all . |
| 25 | Now bear in mind that you may be up anything up to three months in a condition where you 're completely and totally unable to move a muscle for yourself . |
| 26 | This made Fearnley very defensive about his own business , and usually happy to dish the dirt about his aggressive competitor . |
| 27 | They also had a wonderful father who was never angry , and always ready to play a game . |
| 28 | Very sincere and always willing to help a human , dobies are nonetheless inept at most tasks . |
| 29 | For a deep , steep curve it is probably easier and more accurate to take a pattern of half the arch , and spread this to fit the curtain fabric width , as follows : |
| 30 | As we probe further it will become more and more necessary to re-assess the relationship between the two modes as dialectical rather than that of opposites . |