Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 2 | It is meaningless therefore to ask whether people are less willing to look after their elderly relatives than in the past , when this particular dimension of family obligation was simply not put to the test for most people in previous generations . |
| 3 | Where there is no joint action , each member state is entirely free to act on its own . |
| 4 | Yet Simmons was extremely fortunate to survive beyond his first over . |
| 5 | But there is growing consensus that the broader functions of a medical education , which are assuming greater importance in the undergraduate curriculum , are not so easy to learn from someone untrained in educational method . |
| 6 | He became angry and frustrated , having struggled so hard to rise above his humble background to become a physician , and the marriage he had seen as his link to success was more like a chain binding him to the spoilt daughter of the man whose position he envied . |
| 7 | People are much less likely to vote in their own interests , much less likely to vote in their class interests if other people know how they 're voting . |
| 8 | If your mind is on the new member of the family you 're probably less likely to concentrate on your own aches and pains , regardless of whether they are physical or psychological . |
| 9 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 10 | This is why it is so valuable to arrange with them that certain visits will be regularly earmarked for ‘ odd jobbing ’ . |
| 11 | The best possible outcome of the counselling process is where individuals actually begin to feel sufficiently confident to act on their own initiative , on their own behalf , and to follow the objectives that best match their own ideas about themselves and their lives . |
| 12 | Since you are so unwilling to communicate with your old friends they can only guess . |
| 13 | Often it is girls from already deprived backgrounds who end up in such circumstances , and who are less able to cope on their own . |
| 14 | The type of patient for whom this is indicated is one in an acute state of distress who is temporarily entirely unable to cope with his current problems . |
| 15 | Private customers receive more protection under the Rules than do non-private customers since the latter are deemed , to some extent , to be better able to look after their own interests . |
| 16 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 17 | An aspect of marriage that is highlighted in ‘ Mansfield Park ’ is that it is extremely important to marry within your own class or what is even more preferred is to marry a person above your own class . |
| 18 | It is already apparent to us that she has no emotional link with the child ; she is indeed now only anxious to return to her own work , which she will do in about ten days ' time . ’ |
| 19 | Soon she would not have the troops with which to maintain her responsible policy of granting independence only when a colony was politically , economically , and militarily ready to stand on its own feet . |
| 20 | It seems that if Caribbean parents are not too preoccupied with the ‘ struggle ’ to bring their kids up , and there is every reason to believe that , due to the aftermath of migration , familial ruptures and large , possibly unmanageable families , it is a struggle , they are so eager to compensate for their own lack of education that they encumber their children with over-ambitious objectives backed by inflexible , often demoralizing , discipline . |
| 21 | Much of the veneer of sediments resting on the oceanic crust of the downgoing plate will not be subducted since it is not firmly attached to the underlying crust and because it is not sufficiently dense to sink of its own accord into the asthenosphere . |
| 22 | Nor would there be any point in living in such a village unless one were largely prepared to conform to its public mores since otherwise one could not be within the community in any real sense . |
| 23 | The dynamic driving-force of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ allowed , in fact , no stabilization or ‘ normalization ’ , but rather conditioned circumstances in which the traditional ‘ ruling class ’ became ever more subsumed in and dependent upon the ‘ behemoth ’ of the Nazi State which it was no longer able to control in its mad rush to destruction . |
| 24 | so er , cos me heart was in me mouth when they come up for Christmas , and that 's the last time they were up I thought me tree 's gon na go over , you know , I thought if he pulls at me tree or anything , but , he was , he was as good as gold for not , he was n't trying to get me ornaments or anything , he was er , you know , just happy to play with his own toys , so he was n't naughty . |
| 25 | The first hint of such an ability in bees came years ago when von Frisch discovered that bees that had flown an indirect route to a food source were nevertheless able to indicate by their famous communication dances the straight line direction to the food . |
| 26 | In education we are overly inclined to rely on our own tradition and intuition and to overstate the uniqueness of our particular circumstances ( think of the thousands of teachers with their own stock of test questions in their drawer ) . |
| 27 | He was devastated , of course , and now works tremendously hard to look after their two young children . |
| 28 | 1973 ) found that those with a daughter or daughters were more likely to die in their own homes than those with just a son or sons . |
| 29 | Graham Gooch leads the senior side to India and Sri Lanka , but after failing to make an impact in the Test team during the series against Pakistan he seemed more likely to go on his third A-team tour , this time to Australia . |
| 30 | on same date because people are like , more likely to go to their own local pantomime are n't they ? |