Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only his rash brother , the Lord Edward , forced him to it , ’ and he glanced over at the Earl of Carrick , the said Lord Edward Bruce 's second son , who had now deemed it judicious to desert the Balliol cause . |
| 2 | One reason why Lloyd George had considered it essential to narrow the gap between the Government 's declared war aims and those of the Labour party was that a crisis was looming in industry over new measures to conscript previously exempted skilled engineers into the Army . |
| 3 | Up until this time he had considered it wrong to administer the Lord 's Supper to those whose profession of faith was somewhat dubious . |
| 4 | Over a thousand men stood in a formed square on a muddy field somewhere in France , wondering if twelve weeks of training and ten days of ‘ acclimatisation ’ could possibly have made them ready to face the might of the German forces . |
| 5 | For a moment it had made him inclined to doubt the authenticity of the whole thing . |
| 6 | It included Readers ' digest , and a host of other benefactors , who have made it possible to restore the house and gardens to their pristine splendour . |
| 7 | The present cleaning and refurbishment has made it possible to appreciate the variety of the materials involved , the range of colours , and the subtle interplay of stucco and ancient marble . |
| 8 | We will complete the massive investment in new technology — Europe 's biggest computerisation project — that has made it possible to raise the quality of service to the public . |
| 9 | The continuing rise in claims costs has made it necessary to increase the Society 's premium rates for all classes of motor policy . |
| 10 | The reduction in turnover , tight margins and the necessity to cut costs has made it necessary to restructure the business . |
| 11 | However , allowing for additions by providing areas that are logically extensions of the prime data tracks , rather than just physically , has made it necessary to double the size of the lowest-level index , with separate entries for records on the prime data and overflow tracks . |
| 12 | A combination of government secrecy and collective responsibility ( the notion that an individual member must not disagree publicly with a Cabinet decision ) have made it difficult to discover the extent to which cabinets are genuinely collective decision-making bodies , but a succession of leaks and memoirs , such as Richard Crossman 's ( Crossman , 1975–7 ) , has built up a picture of a committee in which genuine debate tends to be restricted to issues that come to assume major political importance for the government . |
| 13 | It is curious that in modern times the Cabinet , though it has always insisted on considering particular proposals for developments of policy and their cost , has never thought it necessary to review the development of expenditure under the Civil Estimates as a whole . |
| 14 | Obviously he had judged it unpropitious to broach the subject of his own predicament right now . |
| 15 | Preparing the soil in this way means that you are less likely to suffer from too many plant deaths where the roots of young plants have found it impossible to penetrate the soil . |
| 16 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 17 | Why , we enquired of Wilkinson , had his team found it necessary to pass the ball back so often — even from the half-way line ? |
| 18 | The Privy Council in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) stated that their Lordships had not found it necessary to consider the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in relation to remoteness of damage and it has been suggested that the inference is that causation , not foreseeability , is the test under the rule . |
| 19 | The librarian had , therefore , found it necessary to edit the list quite heavily . |
| 20 | Although he has not been able to cure it , he has found it possible to slow the disease down so that it stabilises , banishing the symptoms to allow the fish to grow and feed . |
| 21 | Pelseneer ( 1926 ) considered the broadest specimens to be females but most authors have not found it possible to determine the sex of living animals on the basis of shell form or body colour , although the largest individuals are usually females ( see , for example , Feare , 1970c ; osborne , 1977 ; Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | This , in brief , is the framework of political calculation within which I have found it useful to investigate the idea of investment planning as a means of appropriating within socialist argument the changing structure of capitalist property in Britain . |
| 23 | Mr Lawson , who has never found it easy to win the affection of the party conference , now faces the trickiest political test of his career in attempting to avert unseemly attacks on his competence from the Conservative grassroots . |
| 24 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 25 | In recent years , Arab linguists ( Abdel Jawad , 1987 ; Alahdal , 1989 ) have found it difficult to reconcile the concepts of ‘ standard ’ and ‘ prestige ’ , because rural norms that are identical to standard Arabic are shown to be dispreferred in favour of urban ‘ non-standard ’ forms . |
| 26 | She could not say it was ‘ love ’ because she had always found it difficult to define the border between ‘ love ’ and ‘ friendship ’ . |
| 27 | He had found it difficult to resist the temptation to tell Patricia , at least , of his intention to become a Dominican , to go out with a bang instead of a whimper . |
| 28 | She had found it difficult to read the labels on the bottles . |
| 29 | He found a team in decline , but in setting about reviving their fortunes he has found it difficult to win the sort of universal adulation Dalglish enjoyed . |
| 30 | THOSE OF US who are convinced there is no longer room for sentiment at the hard edge of professional sport would have found it difficult to comprehend the outpouring of emotion that followed the exclusion of Geoff Marsh from the Australian tam for the final Test against India . |