Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hoped that when he stopped smoking he would fill out a little and his knees would be less likely to bruise hers in bed , but no . |
| 2 | Their numbers are comparatively small , most receive cautions and they are less likely to make it to court . |
| 3 | This way you are less likely to drown it in butter ( though what more delicious accompaniment could there ever be ? ) . |
| 4 | They 've got less fat to insulate them from cold . |
| 5 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 6 | In order to enslave the English people , we might argue , it is only necessary to enslave them at election time : once in four years Is enough . |
| 7 | A heart has just become available for transplant , with a patient waiting for it , so they want to hold blood for that , and for the weekend , when they 're more likely to need it for trauma cases . |
| 8 | If you subject your fish , which will already be disturbed by the journey from the dealer to your pond , to a further spell in ‘ solitary ’ you are more likely to lose it from stress than from specific infection or parasite infestation . |
| 9 | As Freud has pointed out , however , children do not normally repress the thought of death , but are more likely to express it in fantasy . |
| 10 | ‘ I was going to leave it on your desk for you to find tomorrow morning , but it 's much more satisfactory to deliver it in person . ’ |
| 11 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 12 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps he considered it more important to warn you against venery than venality . ’ |
| 14 | I was more able to forgive her for past hurts because , as Nancy Friday says , I needed to do so . |
| 15 | ‘ Since Maisie was taken ill I have found it even more difficult to leave her at home sometimes , ’ she says . |
| 16 | But although it is easy to write fine-sounding words about the vision which should inspire community care services , it is much more difficult to put them into practice . |
| 17 | Since the other Nematodirus species do not have such critical hatching requirements , a sudden flush of L3 does not occur and although N. filicollis , N. spathiger and N. helvetianus have all been associated with outbreaks of nematodiriasis in sheep and cattle , it is more common to find them in conjunction with the other trichostrongyles . |
| 18 | and it is usually necessary to remove it by flocculation with alum or alum with sodium aluminate , followed by filtration ; the final pH should be adjusted so as to be close to neutrality on the alkaline side . |
| 19 | ‘ It was unduly punitive to take him to court and throw him out of the centre , ’ Silcock said . |
| 20 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 21 | They are also closely associated with University College Cork , which makes it particularly pleasant to welcome them to Queen 's for their first visit . |
| 22 | She expressed her condolences briefly and tactfully , in marked contrast to some of those present , who could n't quite bring themselves to approach the grieving widow but were quite prepared to quiz me at length about the details of Dennis 's last hours . |
| 23 | But it 's almost impossible to separate it from thinking of Alexander Pope the man . |
| 24 | The fact that the area is an expanding and highly mobile community with a high percentage of nominal church-goers means that it is relatively easy to bring them into church services . |
| 25 | Quite happy to have it in manuscript . |
| 26 | I 'm quite happy to have it in English . |
| 27 | And because he was a good trombonist , I was quite happy to rescue him from Chase , Bunny 's tuba playing friend . |
| 28 | We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) . |
| 29 | Shifting her into a more comfortable position , he continued , ‘ I was half prepared to dislike you on sight , you know . |
| 30 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |