Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In four days time , Karen King was due to go to her Aunt Jane 's on the Isle of Man , still hoping to persuade Jessica to join her on the boat . |
| 2 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 3 | She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis . |
| 4 | " I should be sorry to quarrel over it , " said Hazel firmly , " but some of us need to silflay . |
| 5 | To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category . |
| 6 | These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them . |
| 7 | The sentence is commuted to a life within prison walls when she volunteers to hang those due to swing beside her . |
| 8 | And if we did if we were to consider that you we 'd refuse you on the grounds that it was done without permission , you 'd have a perfect legitimate right to appeal above our heads and the Department of the Environment would rule against you could rule against us as they did with Mr Crendon |
| 9 | Shower and bath gels , face masks and deodorants bought by women are also favourites , although men are too lazy to shop for their own . |
| 10 | The piece then challenges these emotional inheritances , and show that it is possible to go beyond them . |
| 11 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 12 | The battle at the creek had begun , and they were far too undone to go to it . |
| 13 | Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ … |
| 14 | ‘ I was saying , ’ Shannon strove to sound as dignified as it was possible to sound for someone who was blushing like a schoolgirl , ‘ that of course I admit the man 's gorgeous . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry to go through it all again , but there 's something about it that seems odd to me . ’ |
| 16 | All right , I thought ; yes , it 's womanish to go to him , but they 're poor times , and maybe an astrologer 's a rug to put over you when you 're wintering . |
| 17 | Walking towards it , he yawned again , and hoped he was n't too exhausted to cope with whatever might follow Alexandra 's arrival in his flat . |
| 18 | While it would be erroneous to view this sort of poetry as a unified and self-conscious expression of cultural resistance , it remains possible to see in it assertions of identity and interest separate from those of more affluent writers . |
| 19 | ‘ How strange to come across you in a civilised setting such as this . |
| 20 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 21 | Her mind was still too lazy to concentrate on what they were saying . |
| 22 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 23 | Under these circumstances , I thought it possible to work with him " . |
| 24 | And the meeting should be held in a place where it is possible to work in our situation . |
| 25 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 26 | Against the need for a society in which persons are free to go about their business unmolested might be weighed other considerations such as the importance to be placed on freedoms of speech and assembly . |
| 27 | Every time a Labour MP pairs with a Tory , leaving that Tory MP free to go about his other business commitments , most of them highly paid , that MP abstained from taking part in opposing this government 's policies . |
| 28 | Because they would be still free to go to their parties and they they would n't be affecting neighbours in that way . |
| 29 | King John may have been willing to agree to anything , even the dismemberment of his kingdom , in order to ensure that he did not die in prison ; but , as Professor Fowler remarked , the treaty was ‘ so preposterous that it is difficult to believe that it was ever intended seriously ’ . |
| 30 | 1.10 It appears that nearly all languages make at least one division in the words of their vocabulary , morphologically or syntactically , or in both ways , between those which commonly do instantiate and those which can not instantiate entities ; the former are traditionally called nouns , and there is a very high degree of intuitive agreement in cross-linguistic identification of nouns precisely because speakers of even widely different cultures are disposed to agree in what they regard as entities rather than properties . |