Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 21-year-old sprinter , who failed a pre-Games drugs test in July , is due to appeal to an independent tribunal within the next few weeks against his four-year ban imposed by the British Athletic Federation . |
| 2 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 3 | Although pricing has not yet been decided , it will be kept low to appeal to the mass market . |
| 4 | It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment . |
| 5 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |
| 6 | But since then things have changed , and if they are prepared to go to a little trouble and expense they can now acquire a cat that will almost certainly give them no problems . |
| 7 | Tess Milner , the senior theatre sister , moved in , taking the baby and wrapping him in a blanket , leaving Niall free to attend to the unconscious woman . |
| 8 | As Stewart Young says above please feel free to write to the Editorial Team . |
| 9 | And he wanted all the girls who were interested to come to the great city . |
| 10 | However , with Mike Hooper currently in fine form at Anfield and £1.3 million signing David James available as a top-class understudy , manager Graeme Souness may be willing to listen to a new offer . |
| 11 | I am sure that the House , with its customary generosity , would be prepared to listen to a personal statement from the hon. Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) if he cares to explain how he came to keep quiet about his possession at a crucial time of a confidential Committee paper . |
| 12 | You also need to be prepared to listen to the other person in return and allow them to tell you things . |
| 13 | He aimed , where he could , to take the industry out of party politics , but was willing to conform to the national interest where that was clearly defined by a Minister who had obvious Cabinet support . |
| 14 | The loan items will be transported to Edinburgh on Thursday 4 March , using the Library 's own vehicle , which is purpose-made to conform to the National Security Advisor 's guidelines . |
| 15 | I am always interested to listen to the long-extending memory of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) . |
| 16 | The European countries also appreciated that the need for the whole world recovery was important , and they became more willing to contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped countries . |
| 17 | Christopher Chope , the environment minister , disclosed in May that the Government was prepared to contribute to the professional advice costs of management buyout teams to a maximum of £132,000 . |
| 18 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
| 19 | He possessed considerable skill , had grace and power and was strong in the air , yet he was also willing to battle to the last whistle . |
| 20 | For a child to feel free to respond to a make-believe situation , there must be sufficient signals in the environment reminding him that the real world continues to exist . |
| 21 | I have not seen Redmire myself , only pictures of it ; pictures always taken when the mist is rising , with a low sun providing back light to add to the eerie effect . |
| 22 | Ironically , Mr Jenkin added , more companies are becoming disillusioned with the Big Six ( although one , Arthur Andersen , comes out of the survey well ) , and would be willing to move to a middle tier firm . |
| 23 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 24 | On the Eurojet contract we are seeking to actually convert that to a fixed price at this stage because the programme is more advanced it is reasonable to do that er on the air frame contract probably the uncertainty and the degree of risk at this stage is too high to move to a fixed price at this point . |
| 25 | The Parliamentary Labour Party , despite its greatly reduced numbers , was not prepared to return to the previous Standing Orders which had allowed the ILP to put forward a distinct policy in Parliament while still remaining within the Labour Group . |
| 26 | It would be more sensible to complain to the local trading standards department . |
| 27 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern . |
| 29 | We thought it would be more sensible to move to the other side of the apartment ; if a shell hit the wall to which we were chained , we would n't stand a chance . |
| 30 | Now as Diana is free to return to the social world of her former friends she will realise that Lisa is rapidly becoming its new darling . |