Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 2 | We should assess the current and future requirements for GIS within RBGE , to determine whether or not it would be cost-effective to acquire our own expertise and hardware in-house , or contract out our GIS work . |
| 3 | I am sorry to inform you that hair that splits excessively probably wo n't grow much longer . |
| 4 | It 's also possible to customise your own guitar to compound-radius status . |
| 5 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 6 | It was therefore with some trepidation that I ventured out to see if it was possible to meet my own demanding standards and buy a high quality basic marine system within the modest , at today 's prices , £250 budget the editor set me . |
| 7 | So by examining meteorites it is possible to discover what some of the asteroids are made of without ever having to visit the asteroid belt . |
| 8 | She would soon be free to go her own way once more , and that was what she wanted , was n't it ? |
| 9 | Francis had never shown any real interest in either side of the business and , as far as the shop was concerned , this had meant that Cathy had been free to go her own way under the old man 's eye . |
| 10 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 11 | ‘ She was saying the other day about the way the media make women afraid to enjoy their own bodies . |
| 12 | The local authority can provide them , but employees are free to wear their own if they wish . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary has power to modify or supplement the data protection principles to provide additional safeguards for these categories ; it will be interesting to see what these additional regulations will contain . |
| 14 | By Southerness , she was back to her considerable best and it goes without saying that it will be interesting to see what this most confirmed of amateurs will make of 1990 . |
| 15 | At HCI Clubs we look after the children so that parents are free to enjoy their own holiday . |
| 16 | Even if they were willing to see their own power reduced , radical reform is a jump into the unknown . |
| 17 | In 1935 the French were free to arrange their own wine laws , but they are now subject to EEC regulations and I doubt that Champagne , despite its unique viticultural situation , would be allowed to dispense with a maximum yield in favour of an average production yardstick . |
| 18 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 19 | I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it ! |
| 20 | It 's quite funny to see them all in this group worried about these dogs . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , only families in real difficulty were prepared to see their own older generation end their lives in such a place . |
| 22 | Major construction companies are often prepared to invest their own funds in a project , or to arrange a loan on their own behalf in return for construction work . |
| 23 | ‘ These assassins are obviously prepared to sacrifice their own lives to kill you . |
| 24 | I 'm very interested to see what this is going to be like . |
| 25 | Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) . |
| 26 | On the other hand , princes felt free to vent their own anger in ways which they now blocked to others . |
| 27 | ‘ Everything seemed to fit , ’ she continued shakily , ‘ I was afraid to trust my own judgement . |
| 28 | I can go home now and again to stay with my sister , and Newbury Council have said that when I come back into circulation they 'd be willing to find me another place , and hopefully I 'll find a little job . |
| 29 | I was careful to find them some distance from Upper Thames Street . |
| 30 | Had not the American players been prepared to meet their own expenses , which included travel from often distant points of the continent , the game would never have taken place . |