Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember her saying , slightly on the defensive , ‘ It 's an investment , ’ and I thought , It 's made her even more determined to succeed . |
| 2 | And after the rescue drama at The Butts flats , on Runcorn 's Castlefields estate , Darren says the taste of part-time firefighting has made him even more determined to earn his retained fire officer status . |
| 3 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 4 | But his intervention has made it much more difficult to forecast the result . |
| 5 | ‘ Since Maisie was taken ill I have found it even more difficult to leave her at home sometimes , ’ she says . |
| 6 | It then falls away steeply across the limited war band to its low point between the guerrilla war and terrorism bands , where the frequency of such wars in the post-war period has demonstrated the greatest weakness in military deterrence — ‘ Davids ’ have found it all too easy to defy ‘ Goliaths ’ in these bands as the French and American defeats in Vietnam have shown so vividly . |