Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 3 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 4 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 5 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 6 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 7 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 8 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 9 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 10 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 11 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 12 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 13 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 14 | I have to say that the Pro GAP would n't be my first choice in any rack system because each time I 've used one I 've been unable to rid it of that ‘ overprocessed ’ synthetic edge . |
| 15 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 16 | I regret that I am unable to assist you with this aspect at this time . |
| 17 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 18 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 19 | ‘ Your sister 's been able to supply us with most of the details we need . ’ |
| 20 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 21 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry to bother you at this time of night . |
| 24 | If the odds were not grossly unfavourable , it should be possible to hold it for several hours . |
| 25 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 26 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 27 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 28 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |
| 29 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 30 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |