Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 2 | By allowing experiments to be performed on a computer which would be impractical or dangerous to perform in the physical world , it also allows the design engineer to probe new areas . |
| 3 | Now , in 1980 , having largely escaped the first round of cuts by the Tory government , the Housing Corporation , which is a major source of funding to housing associations and co-ops , has been cut too , leading to an ever worsening situation for those ineligible for council housing or unable to buy into the private market . |
| 4 | In fact , Chesterman had put the charge of perfectionism in person in his CBC interview , where Karajan had suggested that the word was one used by those too idle or impatient to attend to the basic disciplines of their craft . |
| 5 | However , if you have no replacements , be sure to use more club than usual to allow for the decreased distance . |
| 6 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 7 | We have mentioned very little about harmonic paths in minor keys , but those with a sound harmonic upbringing will find it somewhat repetitive and superfluous to go over the whole ground again . |
| 8 | MR DAVID Mellor , the Home Office Minister of State , said yesterday that he was ‘ almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society ’ as journalists working for tabloid newspapers . |
| 9 | I open some of the popular newspapers covering some people 's private lives or great national tragedies and I feel almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society as people who can produce that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 10 | I use pale olive green and ochre to wash over the main tree , with the shadow softened using a dark olive green . |
| 11 | Perhaps even more valuable are those servicemen and servicewomen who are sufficiently secure , motivated , well paid and content to remain in the same job for fifteen , twenty or thirty years , providing a continuity of local knowledge that is invaluable to those who come to rely upon them . |
| 12 | The photocopied documents are described as almost perfect and impossible to detect by the ordinary person , and even by MOT staff . |
| 13 | Between them Stavrogin and Dasha Shatov , Shatov 's sister , the girl to whom the letter is addressed , have conjured the word ‘ nurse ’ which is a term of art as metaphysical as anything in Notes from Underground and impossible to match in the other post-Siberian novels . |
| 14 | The guitar was very well set up and proved comfortable and easy to play from the off . |
| 15 | Various other formats have come and gone over the years , but these are the ones which have become established and likely to remain for the foreseeable future . |
| 16 | This committee was set up to review the Youth Service , which was thought to be demoralised and unprepared to deal with the increasing demand from the ‘ baby boom ’ children who were reaching adolescence . |
| 17 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 18 | Collaborators in each of the selected jurisdictions will collect their own data and will be consulted about , and able to contribute towards the comparative analysis . |
| 19 | This will ensure that we help the Group come through the worse recession in our industry for many years , and that we are in place and able to contribute to the future upturn in the market . |
| 20 | None the less , faced with the greatest crises of his reign , and unable to sift through the unfathomable views , and motives of his countrymen , the Shah had turned increasingly to foreign advisers . |
| 21 | Hosts : Ruminants , horses , pigs , rabbits and fowl Site : Small intestine except T. axei and T. tenuis Species : Trichostrongylus axei abomasum of ruminants and stomach of horses and pigs T. colubriformis ruminants T. vitrinus } sheep and goats T. capricola } T. retortaeformis rabbits T. tenuis small intestine and caeca of game birds There are a number of other species of ruminants with more local distribution and importance such as T. rugatus , T. falculatus , T. probolurus and T. longispicularis Distribution : Worldwide Gross : The adults are small and hair-like , usually less than 7.0 mm long and difficult to see with the naked eye . |
| 22 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 23 | ‘ Er — wha-what time is it ? ’ she mumbled , her mind too sleepy and uncoordinated to cope with the sharp , quivering response that gripped her stomach as she blinked nervously up at her husband . |
| 24 | His impassive , fierce stare reminded her of an owl squatting on a fence post , watchful and ready to plunge at the first rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 25 | If Europe had not suffered so many years of religious cruelty and persecution , the home-grown cats might have been better developed and ready to compete with the extravagant foreigners . |
| 26 | Having completed these , it was then possible to develop a strategy for implementing solutions that were feasible and desirable to implement in the existing circumstances . |
| 27 | Limping slightly , she entered the lift , far more disturbed by the weight of Rune 's arm around her waist than the quickly diminishing pain in her ankle , but unwilling to dispense with the former in case she exacerbated the latter . |
| 28 | Kirk Douglas ' Colonel Dax is the focus sympathising with prole soldiers in the trenches but unable to reason with the aloof , detached aristocrats in high command . |
| 29 | We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category . |
| 30 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |