Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was right to try to improve the English game , but he tried to change too much too quickly . |
| 2 | Certainly the majority of people believed that the USA was right to try to prevent a Communist take-over in South Vietnam . |
| 3 | Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat . |
| 4 | As a community are we willing to risk building a just peace rather than arming ourselves for war ? |
| 5 | A FORMER Belfast Lord Mayor has publicly stated that he would be prepared to kill to prevent a United Ireland being forced upon Ulster . |
| 6 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 7 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 8 | BRITISH fighter pilots could be patrolling the skies over Bosnia within days after the Government yesterday made it clear it was willing to help enforce the United Nations no-fly zone . |
| 9 | Please contact me should you feel sufficiently interested to wish to inspect the original deed and I will make the necessary arrangements — subject to it remaining available . |
| 10 | Obviously , the market must be prepared to consider taking a high proportion of their future holidays in the Lake District . |
| 11 | But the Appeal Court ruled that the department was wrong to attempt to use the private law provisions of the Act to remove the abuser rather than the victims . |
| 12 | It would have been interesting to have seen the two films together . |
| 13 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) . |
| 15 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 16 | Leeds coach Doug Laughton has already lured former Wigan stars Andy Gregory , Andy Goodway and Ellery Hanley from Central Park and now looks set to try to persuade the 17-stone prop to join them at Headingley . |
| 17 | If the object is to label only cells lining a cavity it is crucial to avoid increasing the hydrostatic pressure of the cavity to such an extent that label is forced into internal tissues . |
| 18 | Alternative approaches which are also easy to use include a soft copy form presented to the users who ‘ fill in the forms ’ to state their requirements ( see Figure 6.3 ) or icon/mouse systems , which use graphical symbols ( icons ) representing such requirements as filing ( file cabinet ) , deleting ( wastepaper basket ) and so on . |
| 19 | Despite these benefits it is too early to pronounce fundholding an unqualified success . |
| 20 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 21 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |
| 22 | It was a new experience for her to want to open up to someone , especially a man ; but another part of her was relieved to have found a kindred spirit she could confide in . |
| 23 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 24 | It will of course be impossible to attempt to evaluate an overall programme rather than assess a specific course , if no clear overall programme exists . |
| 25 | Swan Salvage , of Peterhead , claims the weather has not been favourable to attempt to raise the 60-ton Pescado from 90ft of water . |
| 26 | He dosed it up , obviously delighted to have found a reasonable explanation . |
| 27 | ‘ I can play better , but I was reasonably happy with my game and I 'm delighted to have got the first tie under my belt , ’ said McCann . |
| 28 | So one has a set of events , a region of space-time , from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer . |
| 29 | I note in particular the first meeting of the National Committee which I was glad to see made a good start . |
| 30 | However , Del Harris , the No. 1 , returning to action after a month out , had to work hard to avoid going the full distance with Sami Elopuro before winning 9-5 , 9-2 , 2-9 , 9-7 . |