Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 2 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 3 | To gain the most benefit from installing a desk top publishing system you must be prepared to learn something about the general area of printing . |
| 4 | The following involves everybody at the same time . |
| 5 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 6 | The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites . |
| 7 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 8 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |
| 9 | Because of the passage of the st'lyan along the road there was a cloud of dust and it was hard to see anything in the failing red light . |
| 10 | And it , they 're likely to need something like a further twenty thousand pounds er , if they do n't have sufficient funds to continue to at the balance of this financial year . |
| 11 | Invariably some of them were drunk , others high on some weed , some too randy to notice anything but the opposite sex , and the remainder were too self-absorbed to notice anything . |
| 12 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |
| 13 | At first the hotel had been unwilling to employ someone with a young daughter . |
| 14 | It is unwise to erect one on a grassed area unless you use scaffold boards to spread the load |
| 15 | Unable to find one with the same outward-opening flap , he did the next best thing and took an average price for similar letter-boxes and forwarded you a cheque for this amount . |
| 16 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 17 | Legal advice recommended that , as Mrs. X was unable to remember anything of the alleged incident and that , as it may not be possible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that , not only did she not consent , but also that XYZ knew that she was not consenting , the case should be dealt with summarily by the Commanding Officer . ’ |
| 18 | For practical purposes it is probably safe to assume something like a 50/50 split and this is probably putting inherited factors too high . |
| 19 | Output and display requirements dictate architectures which support high-resolution colour graphics , can display both RGB ( ‘ Red-Green-Blue' , the colour screen standard in which the three basic colours remain individually controllable ) and composite video information , and provide an audio capability able to handle anything from a feeble bleep to high fidelity stereo . |
| 20 | For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own . |
| 21 | And furious farmers were powerless to do anything about the handsome profits their former land fetched for the Department of the Environment , who took it over in the mid-1960s . |
| 22 | It is important to understand something of the recent history of Information Technology Departments . |
| 23 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 24 | Mahmoud had been unable to uncover anything of a personal nature which might have prompted the attack . |
| 25 | That way , we might be able to achieve something over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 26 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 27 | To achieve such insight , it is essential to understand something of the social and historical context . |
| 28 | Yeah , yeah , cos our , our be inclined to leave something on the front door step and go . |
| 29 | He was so dangerously persuasive — and it would be all too convenient to blame everything on the absent Miss Philimore . |
| 30 | Radio and television Local radio stations are usually hungry for news and will be keen to interview anybody with a strong point of view . |