Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 2 | It did n't take her long to decide she had precisely two choices — well , one , really , because even though it was n't cold it would look wrong to go out in thin cotton to the sort of party he was talking about . |
| 3 | But my guess is early retirement too , unless you 're prepared to go back to divisional work . |
| 4 | Stotland ( 1977 ) drew a portrait of the executive 's motives for being prepared to go along with corporate crime . |
| 5 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 6 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 7 | Team organiser , Grove Projects ’ Robin Williams , explains that he would like to hear from players in the London area who would be keen and willing to turn out for regular league and cup matches . |
| 8 | Two recent surveys clearly show that many shoppers are willing to pay more for organic food . |
| 9 | She was interested to learn more about natural irradiation and how our bodies are transfixed by a million cosmic rays a day , like the arrows that pierced Saint Sebastian . |
| 10 | Some present MPs think it has already " become all too easy to opt out of real responsibility at Westminster by immersion in constituency work " . |
| 11 | Being compact , it 's easy to soak up in just couple of days , making it the perfect place for a quiet weekend . |
| 12 | So instead of an export binge , the industry is more likely to go straight to offshore production in America and Europe . |
| 13 | A psychological study ( Californian again ) once tried to explain why people were hard to tempt back to public transport . |
| 14 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 15 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 16 | But Sun/Star readers were less interested in politics even than Mirror readers ; and they were the least likely to tune in to highbrow news programmes such as Newsnight , Channel 4 News , or Radio 4 news . |
| 17 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |
| 18 | But , the odd unscripted upset aside , the chairmen and chairwomen find it hard to keep up with torrential voting in favour of the leadership line . |
| 19 | And I would recommend we just stick with something very basic to start off with like paracetamol , two four times a day Something so very very simple like that . |
| 20 | England 's external wars were fought principally in France , so most Englishmen had little direct experience of warfare , apart from those in the north , where relations with Scotland were always likely to break out into open hostility . |
| 21 | Not every horse handles the tight bends of the Musselburgh circuit so well , and Claire Balding was lucky to get away without serious injury after Dusky Duchess lost her back legs and came down . |
| 22 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 23 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 24 | It seems he was totally bewildered by the streams of traffic and all the noise and was very glad to get back to rural tranquillity . |
| 25 | It may be hard to move away from traditional gender roles at a time of unemployment . |
| 26 | Certainly , it will need to work hard to make up for lost time ; the party has neglected the cause of democratic socialism in the North for far too long and it has allowed would-be Labour activists to become demoralised . |
| 27 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 28 | Jaq could order Vitali to drop back into normal space and no doubt could force the old woman to comply . |
| 29 | It great to eat outdoors on warm summer days . |
| 30 | Of course there are a number of modifications that need to be made to this analyser before it is able to cope well with general text . |