Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At best , a family might be given two shillings weekly if , after being willing to submit to a very strict investigation into their financial position ( this was called a ‘ Means Test ’ ) they were found to be at starvation level . |
| 2 | As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career . |
| 3 | However I had perceived that he had been caught in that familiar predicament of being obliged to continue to the end of a story which half-way through he repented of having begun . |
| 4 | Dr Mikulas Huba , head of the Slovak Parliamentary Committee for Nature and Environmental Protection , has accused the government of being prepared to sell off the entire Tatra range to Americans without formal authority . |
| 5 | Freud 's comment on dreams of exposure was , … the dream of nakedness demands our attention only when shame and embarrassment are felt in it , when one wishes to escape or to hide , and when one feels the strange inhibition of being unable to stir from the spot , and of being utterly powerless to alter the painful situation … |
| 6 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 7 | In picking their way through these priorities , local managers lacked the benefit of being able to rely on the NCC and SEAC working in harmony . |
| 8 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 9 | The relief of being able to talk about the problem at all will probably be of some comfort . |
| 10 | However , the organizational advantages of being able to sample at a regular interval are so considerable that such anxieties are often set aside . |
| 11 | I also like the idea of being able to look through the window and see people walking by , a bit of activity . |
| 12 | Wright has such talent that he can become a much more exciting player than Lineker because he has the added bonus of being able to play with the ball as well as without it . |
| 13 | Age Concern would like to see this issue specifically addressed , so that elderly people will be assured of being able to register with a practice near their home . |
| 14 | The Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology is the only centre in the United Kingdom able to provide such a pioneering operation which is only available through the N.H.S. If Mr. Thorpe had not been in a fortunate position of being able to register with a G.P. in a different Health Authority , he would not have had his operation . |
| 15 | In addition , the safety net of being able to dispose of an ill-targeted acquisition or a business that becomes non-core as a result of an acquisition may not exist when times are hard . |
| 16 | The acquisition of such a firm by a larger firm with expansion in mind has the advantage to the latter over the opening up of a new branch office of being able to start with an existing client base . |
| 17 | Since the majority of heads of schools and teachers inherit the school and the class or specialist rooms in which they work with their pupils , they are seldom in the happy position of being able to contribute to the initial planning of buildings , and consequently their interest may well be centred on adaptations or changes that they can realistically effect , although an appreciation of the more fundamental issues of design and planning may concern them too . |
| 18 | COLLEAGUES of were shocked to hear of the senior executive 's sudden death on February 17 at the age of 53 . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the most difficult matches we have ever been asked to play , ’ confided Sir Alf Ramsey in June , 1973 , his apprehension understandable despite being able to call upon the vast experience of Bobby Moore , Alan Ball and Martin Peters . |
| 20 | Radji of was disinclined to protest as the Shah wished . |
| 21 | Most of all she did n't like being too far from town to join a Brownie Guide Pack — and even now , when she looked like being able to get into the town , she could n't join the Brownie Pack ! |
| 22 | Many customers like being free to move around the store |
| 23 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 24 | We have a population which has benefited from being able to tap into a wide and diverse range of information through the printed word . |
| 25 | That had held me back from being able to grow into a woman really . |
| 26 | They will not stop a single person who is not in one of those categories from being able to qualify for the single person household discount . |
| 27 | British historians are especially fortunate in being able to draw on the oldest tradition of popular autobiography in the world . |
| 28 | He despised her coarseness in being able to sleep with the light on . |
| 29 | There are types of language use which demand the ability to formulate grammatical , correctly bounded sentences , and being able to exploit the formal sentence grammar is one of the most important elements in being able to communicate in a language . |
| 30 | The loyalty and discipline of the Khmer Rouge troops springs from something much deeper — the pride of the warrior in being able to survive in the forest , fighting against foreign enemies . |