Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And it was impossible to tell whether her own gaze held anything more than the bewildered gratitude and regret that were clearly there .
2 However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience .
3 Generally speaking , a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period .
4 The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking .
5 There is no doubt that poor men were more likely to emigrate than richer ones , and that they were more likely to emigrate if their traditional livelihood had become difficult or impossible .
6 So it is natural to ask whether his optimistic conclusions — about the success of non-envious , forgiving niceness — also apply in the world of nature .
7 Probing to know if its new-gnarled root
8 David DuBon has had to battle with a notoriously difficult subject , and is not afraid to state the plain facts , such as : ‘ it is no longer possible to determine whether its present form is that of the original piece ’ ( Vol .
9 Mr a forty four year old restaurant owner is still unable to sleep although his four year old son appears unaffected by what happened .
10 And yet , much as she enjoyed her career and would not want to give it up permanently , she had a great desire for a strong , loving relationship and wanted to have children of her own — something she would never be able to do if her present feelings persisted .
11 But he also had a genuine vocation for healing — a vocation which he was unable to satisfy because his poor background prevented his going to medical college . ’
12 It was most unfortunate and ironic that I was unable to assist as my main project , the Claudian conquest , was well under way .
13 Put simply , it might be fair to ask whether their underlying theories of the state ( or local government ) can be appropriate if they lead to conclusions which are contradicted by empirical evidence .
14 His successor was his cousin , Eadberht , the brother of Archbishop Ecgberht , but it is not possible to say whether his powerful relatives brought pressure to bear on him to resign .
15 Perhaps he worries too much about Mr Carman , who , he says , ‘ will not be running true to form if his closing speech is not a formidable tour de force .
16 It was not pretty to watch , with the ball often being held up and played back to Cann , but it was effective , and Farnham were ready to strike when their own chance came along .
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