Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun pl] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this made companies tremble , David Tweedie 's pronouncements will have done nothing to calm their fears . |
| 2 | Although it will probably be a long time before we are prepared to let robots perform operations on us , Pam will be ready for trials next year , and her potential for cutting the 750,000 nursing days lost each year through back strain may make her popular with medical staff and patients alike . |
| 3 | I am willing to let miracles happen . |
| 4 | Although some lenders are willing to let applicants have a copy of the valuation , the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors explained to us that there is no legal obligation for them to do so . |
| 5 | This helps adults use the video to understand the long-term effects of sexual abuse . |
| 6 | This helps clients learn to understand more about the processes involved in , for example , stress , or having a panic attack , or the development and maintenance of phobic anxiety , or the uses and abuses of tranquillizers . |
| 7 | Only if they pass this do applicants become ‘ badged ’ — able to wear the famous winged dagger emblem with the motto Who Dares Wins . |
| 8 | Not until around 1540 did undertakings begin to proliferate , and even then the work was never a whole-time occupation , production being organised in ‘ campaigns ’ lasting from two to six months , mainly in winter when the rains swelled the streamlets and filled the ponds which powered the furnace bellows and the tilt-hammers of the forges . |
| 9 | ‘ It is wrong to make businesses pay more than they can afford . |
| 10 | ‘ It is surely wrong to make unions police unofficial action which they have not endorsed . ’ |
| 11 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 12 | Er that kind of idea that er you know , whether any changes at all that you thought that you appreciated er in that made workers feel that they were in fact a more important a more important part of their industry ? |
| 13 | ‘ It would be sad to see sitcoms go , ’ he says , before heading into the night . |
| 14 | Teachers felt that it was m appropriate to help pupils move as quickly as possible from purposes to information , with emphasis on reading and note making skill that stage . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's my own fault — there were times when there was no real leadership in the county and it was easy to let things slip . ’ |
| 16 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 17 | Not content to let surgeons perform unguided , she remains conscious to give instructions and read aloud from books of psychoanalysis . |
| 18 | It is much more straightforward to have warrants set aside and negotiations entered into in the County Court whereas Magistrates Courts are usually unwilling to reconsider until a warrant has been returned to the court . |
| 19 | Or , how much do women deviate from a male-defined standard ? ’ ( 1986 : 325 ) ( see also Baumrind 1982 ) . |
| 20 | Prove to your husband that you are not extravagant but point out that it is impossible to make ends meet on a pittance . |
| 21 | The recent fixed-rate mortgage offers , such as those from the Halifax ( fixed rate at 10.80% for five years ) and National Westminster Bank ( 10.95% for two years ) may look attractive if one was paying 15.75% in 1989 and found it all but impossible to make ends meet . |
| 22 | It is possible to help parents draw up two lists . |
| 23 | Considerations like these make scientists feel that they are right to take a philosophically realist view of the results of their researches ; to suppose that they are finding out the way things are . |
| 24 | ‘ These make women feel comfortable with a man and in the mood for making love , ’ he said . |
| 25 | However , it is not unusual to see pilots take off towards a heavy rain shower on a good soaring day instead of waiting until it has passed . |
| 26 | 14 April : The Mail reports that disagreements over the Labour leadership election ‘ are likely to see knives flash among top policymakers ’ . |
| 27 | The exam league table is supposed to help parents make well informed choices for their children . |
| 28 | On the other hand , they can be valuable to help students visualise the social and cultural backgrounds in which communication takes place . |
| 29 | The technology , which is supposed to let users link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm always glad to have mothers come up with their nippers . |