Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another practical problem is that ‘ global ’ ( organisation-wide ) data analysis may be so costly and time-consuming that it is often preferable to carry out entity analysis at a ‘ local ’ level , such as the marketing area . |
| 2 | By making the watching systematic and analytical , it was possible to carry out field experiments that reduced interference with the animals to a minimum . |
| 3 | Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale . |
| 4 | When a famous campaign is changed , it is still possible to carry out research on advertising recall for several years afterwards and find a substantial , sometimes even dominant , proportion of what is recalled being the old campaign . |
| 5 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |
| 6 | No , that 's cos it 's old clapped out thing ! |
| 7 | The newer breed of botanist was prepared to go back year after year , recording on a more methodical basis , with a longer term view to writing a Flora based upon intimate knowledge of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 8 | People were literally afraid to come down town . |
| 9 | Your local farmer may be prepared to hire out equipment , such as this post rammer , to divide up your paddock |
| 10 | Where necessary they were also prepared to set up enterprise works committees with employees ' representatives , whilst at the same time strongly opposing external industrial or national unions . |
| 11 | It is n't in addition to the pension you 're getting , you have to be willing to give up part of your own pension in advance . |
| 12 | Leaders turned out not to be willing to give up sovereignty over ‘ low-level ’ political issues ; nor , when they did , were they thereby more inclined to integrate in ‘ high-level ’ politics . |
| 13 | I think , therefore we are extremely fortunate , that so many people of distinction and talent are willing to give up time to serve on the Executive of the N C V O to work with the honourary officers and the Director and her team , to ensure that N C V O maintain such a central role in watching over our interests and in promoting the concerns of the people of this country , that we are all so active about . |
| 14 | Finding someone willing to give up time just to listen seems to be a problem for many people . |
| 15 | Parties to the English sea waybill are willing to give up transferability in exchange for an extra measure of security , especially against fraudulent issuances . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 17 | A few weeks earlier that same candidate had drawn the member of parliament 's attention to ‘ one David Denholm an old worn out officer at Thorntonloch nigh Dunglass in East Lothian who is about being supperannuated ’ . |
| 18 | If the Department of Health are prepared to shell out money to keepers of a vermin-infested tenement then the officials are to blame . |
| 19 | This has meant heavy advertising expenditures , and the concurrent merchandising activities at point-of-sale have been necessary to ensure that the goods are promoted in-store to back up advertising . |
| 20 | It was wrong to pay out unemployment benefits , Kozlowski claimed , when no-one could be found to carry out urgent environmental tasks . |
| 21 | Students from countries within the European Community are free to take up employment during vacations but unemployment is high in the United Kingdom and there are few jobs vacant . |
| 22 | Outcome has been assessed clinically and by ultrasound scanning in 92 patients with a median follow up period of 14 months ( six to 37 months ) . |
| 23 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 24 | Once the school has formed the relationship many companies will be prepared to take on sponsorship or allocate funds . |
| 25 | But the officer/manager should not trust the ‘ man ’ unless it has been demonstrated , such as through promotion , that he is willing to take on responsibility . |
| 26 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |
| 27 | The following year Universal closed up shop and MGM shuttered its Borehamwood Studios , disgracefully leaving Fred Zinneman to look after the bills for a cancelled production of André Malraux 's Man 's Fate . |
| 28 | While you may be perfectly willing to hand over authority this action may not always be received with enthusiasm . |
| 29 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 30 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |