Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 2 | Aside from the sports hall there are outside facilities , many of which are rather too cold to do in winter . |
| 3 | Short-coated dogs are obviously much easier to cater for in this respect . |
| 4 | Tufted carpets are much more economic to produce in that the pile is needled into a pre-woven backing . |
| 5 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 6 | A knowledgeable group , skilled at group working , are much more likely to succeed in their tasks , than an inexperienced group . |
| 7 | Female names are much more likely to end in a ( spoken ) vowel , as with Linda , Tracey , Patricia , Mary . |
| 8 | In these cases , magistrates are much more likely to convict for technical breaches of highly technical rules . |
| 9 | Families with children are much more likely to get into debt than people without children , and there is a greater risk to larger families . |
| 10 | Joan is a firm supporter of new varieties ; they are much more likely to stay in good health as they 're bred with inbuilt resistance to canker and other diseases . |
| 11 | When we present ourselves with the decision we are much more inclined to drift in a certain direction leaving ourselves the option of getting out if we find we do not like it . |
| 12 | This class of omissions are much more difficult to deal with computationally . |
| 13 | However , it 's easier if you solder the smaller parts first and work upward in size ; the smaller parts are much more difficult to keep in the board prior to soldering if the board has to be balanced on larger components . |
| 14 | The details of how to best look after a NiCad battery are much too complicated to go into in the answer to a letter and there is n't much that an innocent user can do to help anyway . |
| 15 | Celebrities are much less likely to die from heart attack or stroke , but that is probably only because they die young in other ways . |
| 16 | They therefore have much more freedom and scope for accommodation , and are much less likely to conform to the same fixed pattern . |
| 17 | People are much less likely to vote in their own interests , much less likely to vote in their class interests if other people know how they 're voting . |
| 18 | Elderly couple households fare much the same as all households , but elderly persons living alone are much less likely to benefit from such goods . |
| 19 | In support of this theory is the fact that zebras are much less likely to suffer from certain insect-carried diseases than other equines . |
| 20 | I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise . |
| 21 | Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this … |
| 22 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We are naturally very disappointed to hear of Mrs Rorstad 's problems and her complaint will be investigated . ’ |
| 23 | Those conscientious airlines that put safety before profit make the major contribution , while all the rest are only too keen to read about other people 's troubles but less willing to contribute themselves . |
| 24 | Most members are only too pleased to go through their professional lives without the need to obtain an intimate understanding of the way our professional conduct committees work . |
| 25 | Erm the poor are only too glad to go to Sainsburys or Tescos where erm tea is half the price . |
| 26 | Earwigs are only too ready to picnic on a peach |
| 27 | The first two are normally fairly straightforward to deal with but the last two can be more difficult and sometimes fraught with very real problems . |
| 28 | Candid recording , for instance , is a troublesome issue for sociolinguists ; but I have received the impression that medical researchers are generally less inclined to worry about audio-recording without the speaker 's knowledge or permission , provided anonymity is maintained . |
| 29 | Some things are just too big to cope with . |
| 30 | It is real all the same , if only because close finishes , in which the result is determined by a marginal number of votes , are just as likely to occur under the STV as under any other electoral system . |