Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were so far away from me , and there was nothing that they could do to alleviate the hardship of Legion life , so it appeared unnecessary to burden them with minor worries about bullying and violence . |
| 2 | Though most women experience the feelings I did , they are only willing to discuss them with other mothers . |
| 3 | Having built up the reserves , it is prepared to use them in difficult times , and that is the right thing to do . |
| 4 | As such there is controversy about the extent to which it is justifiable to describe them as political systems in their own right . |
| 5 | Although some dogs do adapt if they have a very placid nature , the majority carry real scars — and I 'm afraid leaving her for eight-hour stretches certainly is n't helping . |
| 6 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 8 | Nicer easy does it for thrilled Hills |
| 9 | The strong simplicity of his ideas about life and the universe made it easy to link him with other men of understanding , so that for me the book seemed to be ringing with echoes of Hamlet and Richard Jefferies and the New Testament . |
| 10 | There is usually a square grid of lines on the backing , which makes it easy to cut it in straight lines , and a small roll can cover quite a few items . |
| 11 | Towns vary widely , although it is possible to group them in various types . |
| 12 | Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ . |
| 13 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 14 | Providence saw fit to favour me with wonderful in-laws . |
| 15 | This decision must not be left to the magistrates to make as they are likely to base it upon pragmatic considerations only . |
| 16 | Once public debate is permitted in the election period it becomes hard to prohibit it at other times . |
| 17 | Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset , they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses . |
| 18 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 19 | While it is often convenient to deal with equations such as ( 2 ) in the way indicated , it is also often useful to transform them into first-order equations . |
| 20 | Since no more is claimed for the incapacitation effect on conventional criminals , it appears reasonable to recommend it for offending corporations . |
| 21 | Various people were due to address them at various moments , in particular Winston . |
| 22 | It should be possible to convert it to other BASICs without too much difficulty . |
| 23 | If you are elderly or disabled , your local Council of Voluntary Service should be able to provide you with willing volunteers to come and decorate for you . |
| 24 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 25 | Several American management consultants , notably Dr W Edwards Deming , Dr JM Juran and Philip B Crosby , developed the concepts ; the first two of these , unable to sell them to American companies , turned instead to Japan . |
| 26 | Frederica could , in the Lake District , have seen a " Wordsworthian " tarn and been able to render it in Wordsworthian words , and , because these words were known , tested , thought about , she could have introduced minute changes , have seen one little thing he had n't seen , changed the point of view . |
| 27 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 28 | Chances are I will be able to help you with other topics , so do n't be put off writing again because I was no help the first time . |
| 29 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 30 | It 's simpler to obtain large amounts of it and one hopes that if one finds out something of the mechanism through this enzyme one would be able to apply it to other enzymes dependent upon the same coenzyme . |