Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pleasant to see the same easy charm , quiet confidence and obliging manner re-establish itself in the new generation of ownership . |
| 2 | That cash aid is due to run out on March 31 and unit organiser Kate Harker said there were concerns that without the Government money it would not be possible to continue the same level of service . |
| 3 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 4 | Even charges by experts in the same field can differ widely ; it is possible to obtain a more than adequate employment report for under £500 , whereas some agencies in the area will quote £1,500 . |
| 5 | It had once been possible to trust a few Fascist families , especially those who had sons who had deserted from the army on 8 September ; but that was changing . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , experienced models are hard to come by on most of the Polynesian islands , though it is possible to find a few in Papeete . |
| 7 | It is sometimes possible to find a few rare or special examples of an artist 's work that dealers have sold at rising prices , but this is no basis for saying prices for that artist 's work in general have risen . |
| 8 | It was interesting to see the many impromptu sketches made in situ , often as skilled as the finished work . |
| 9 | but I hope however that he will be willing to go a few steps further . |
| 10 | Truman , lacking the experience of foreign affairs , was surrounded by the same advisers as Roosevelt and was willing to continue the same policy . |
| 11 | But it soon became clear that Washington was prepared to promise no more than a continuing exchange of views " to bring our respective viewpoints as close as possible " . |
| 12 | The Chancellor is now prepared to claim no more than that the deficit is ‘ more or less flattening out ’ . |
| 13 | I WAS interested to see the All Blacks trial teams that were announced last week . |
| 14 | And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process . |
| 15 | Although new names have produced the successes , Longman falls back on the old to consolidate the same . |
| 16 | But there are other less obvious savings which can be taken into account if you are prepared to write a few letters and fill out a form or two . |
| 17 | Below- the-line activity in the US now takes 60 per cent of marketers ' expenditure , and it would be foolish to exclude the same thing happening here . |
| 18 | It seems to us that these acts were sufficient to support a finding of possession and indeed on the material before us we would be disposed to reach the same conclusion … |
| 19 | But only one in 25 Vauxhalls sold last year was a diesel , so it would be unrealistic to expect the same level of stocks and enthusiasm from a Vauxhall dealer . |
| 20 | Many horses may do one thing , but others will do something quite different to express the same emotion . |
| 21 | It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered . |
| 22 | ( How duncical , by the way , for both French and English to retain the same phrase . |
| 23 | He says he is equally willing to do the same for any other operating system . |
| 24 | It might be easier to use a few objects with clearly differentiated attributes as a starting point , but conversations of this kind can occur spontaneously in many activities . |
| 25 | They had by then abandoned the expression " deaf and dumb " and at the Paris Congress had strongly advised the British to do the same . |
| 26 | As a result it would be possible for the French at some future date to renew their claim to sovereignty over Aquitaine , and for the English to do the same in respect of the crown of France . |
| 27 | It was indefensible to keep the latter in jail while thousands of others who had succeeded in escaping had been allowed out to the West , he said . |
| 28 | The 17-member Co-Ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls ( COCOM ) , the body whose main role had been to regulate the sale of Western technology to communist countries , agreed in Paris on June 1-2 to invite the former Soviet republics to join its newly established COCOM Co-Operation Forum on Export Controls . |
| 29 | They are prepared to pay the same amount of rent as you are at present receiving from it . ’ |
| 30 | Besides , the actor thinks movies should n't be afraid to push a few buttons . |