Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have made clear , for some time the question of recognising Yugoslav republics , especially Croatia and Slovenia , has not been a matter of principle — clearly they will not be willing to go back into any entity called Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | Unless the Government is prepared to come up with some cash there is a real danger that the Dearing vision will be blinded by the dust which the report is rapidly gathering . |
| 3 | This was pre-eminently the case where the Area Boards were united in opposing the Central Authority or the Government ( as on the Clow differential ) , though Citrine was more willing to give in to such pressure on matters where he respected the Board Chairmen 's views , such as tariffs , than on matters where he was determined to impose his own , as in labour relations . |
| 4 | It was all Harriet could do not to confront her , have the whole thing out , tell her that she was not prepared to put up with such behaviour any longer , that she might be a war widow with a child , but she was living in her mother 's house and should at least not take such care and help for granted . |
| 5 | The party faithful might be willing to put up with such dissonance among their candidates . |
| 6 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 7 | If this arm was free to move about upon that plane , its position and attitude would be fully described by two translational and one rotational freedoms . |
| 8 | It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation . |
| 9 | Maybe it was because they thought it was dangerous to stand out in any way from the crowd , in case fate was tempted to drop a crate on their heads . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be easy to give in to that criticism and just make mindless , utopian house records or ambiguous grunge records . |
| 11 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll have got my bearings by tomorrow , so you wo n't need to stand in for me , ’ she said , ‘ but tonight , I do n't mind admitting , I 'll be glad to catch up on some beauty sleep . |
| 14 | Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off . |
| 15 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 16 | However , what is worrying is that , once labelled , we are likely to live up to that label . |
| 17 | The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street . |
| 18 | She was supposed to blend in with that group . |
| 19 | He sounded glad to get on to another subject . |
| 20 | I 'll be glad to get out of this plaguey hole . |
| 21 | Schoolboys are very conventional and quick to gang up on any boy who in behaviour or dress does not conform . |
| 22 | ‘ I applaud Myra 's loyalty , but it 's stupid to carry on with this charade of twins . ’ |
| 23 | This can be decomposed as : where X 1 and X 2 are the proportion in the service class and intermediate class ( 0.134 and 0.308 ) respectively : 0.237 + ( 0.134 × 0.482 ) + ( 0.308 × 0.160 ) = 0.351 We shall consider equations like this for interval level variables later in the book ; you may find it useful to come back to this paragraph after you have read chapter 10 . |
| 24 | Expecting little good to come out of any country even partially populated by non-Muslims , Ibn Battuta had few expectations of India . |
| 25 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
| 26 | It is therefore useful to set out in some detail the position as it was prior to the 1980 Local Government , Planning and Land Act . |
| 27 | I 'd walk off to a respectful distance — I had no desire to listen to their conversation , there was nothing useful to pick up from that babble . |
| 28 | Three-quarter-inch cassette formats : U-matic Low-Band — widely used in industry and in institutions ; U-matic High-Band — acceptable for broadcast , better quality than low-band , needs to be transferred to low-band to play back on that standard but will playback on low band equipment as black and white picture of variable quality . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm just too damn tired to put up with any nonsense — especially something so totally unimportant — at a time like this . ’ |
| 30 | Intellect is very good to live by in this world . |