Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February she is due to appear in the networked This Sunday . |
| 2 | It would not be long before de Lattre faced the divisions of Giap 's new model army in the set-piece battles which the Vietminh were prepared to risk in a premature general offensive ; and it was in more conventional war of this kind where US assistance and particularly US munitions would apparently tip the scale . |
| 3 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 4 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
| 5 | Notably , it produced the clearest suggestion yet from the Soviet side that it was willing to compromise in the 45-year-old territorial dispute between the two countries . |
| 6 | Where a book is not in a library , the librarian may be willing to apply to the National Central Library for a copy on loan . |
| 7 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 8 | He also stated that Cuba was willing to contribute to the Central American peace process and would support the full implementation of the 1967 Tlatelolco treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in Latin America . |
| 9 | If the client is willing to pay for a comprehensive pro-active search , MAS will generally refer the search to MC Strategy Services . |
| 10 | Of course there were plenty of foreign films that peddled sex much more effectively than Hollywood , but it was risky to resort to the Continental X-port market . |
| 11 | You must of course , have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January . |
| 12 | More of that later , you must also have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January . |
| 13 | You must also , of course , have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough teenager Ian McGuckin looks set to continue after an impressive first-team debut against Darlington , while Steve Fletcher could take over in attack from injured Andy Saville . |
| 15 | Thus , it is all too easy to see in the Liberal social reforms before 1914 , the beginning of the Welfare State . |
| 16 | For other purposes it is appropriate to concentrate on a specific sequential task and illustrate the order of events involving human actions ( e.g. Figs. 1 . |
| 17 | Before tackling the theoretical problems raised by that question , it will be instructive to look at the volatile critical reputation of Brief Encounter within British film culture , since this can be linked very closely to shifting paradigms of authorship . |
| 18 | It is trivially easy to select for a particular genetic formula , so long as you can read the genes of all the animals . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not appropriate to insist upon an immediate Syrian withdrawal , ’ he said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Without three points , it will be nearly impossible to finish in the top two . |
| 22 | Hope was quite content to saunter around the pretty little village . |
| 23 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 24 | She groaned , pressing her hands over her ears , but it was n't that simple to cut off the insidious little voice . |
| 25 | For systems in which there is little variation of both load torque and distance of travel it may be appropriate to operate with a fixed switching angle , so as to minimise the controller costs . |
| 26 | With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff . |
| 27 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 28 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 29 | They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years . |
| 30 | Now commuting is a consequence of human nature to a large extent , people choose to live away from their place of work and if they do choose to live away from their place of work then we 'll need a much more authoritarian government than we are likely to see in the next ten or twenty years to stop people from living away from their place of work . |