Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detroit is shabby , poverty-ridden and struggling to keep its head above water It has a huge crime problem . |
| 2 | Fanny is mystical and tends to go away on her own , so Suwelo has an affair with Carlotta , who wears three-inch heels . |
| 3 | Grain- and seed-eaters of grassland and savannah were gregarious and tended to breed in colonies . |
| 4 | Waller , armed with a wood-cutting chisel , grabbed one 16-year-old and threatened to cut his ear if the youth did not say who had damaged the car . |
| 5 | She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain . |
| 6 | We succeed in operating them profitably , but the big national breweries regard such pubs as non-viable and tend to close them or sell them off , with inevitable consequences in the form of unemployment . |
| 7 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 8 | But if that activity became more strident and refused to take no for an answer ; if it became more popular , participatory , and direct , taking to the streets and becoming something called " extra-parliamentary politics " ; and if it threatened to overload the capacity of the state , then it was condemned — and condemned as at odds with the liberal-democracy of the British constitution . |
| 9 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 10 | Each time you should apply side-strain and try to steer him away from them . |
| 11 | He listened , counted the gearchanges to identify the errant cog and told Michel second gear was going , but the Frenchman thought it was OK and wanted to continue . |
| 12 | Differences among accents of English have been mentioned several times in the course , and this is a subject that many students of English find interesting and wish to know more about . |
| 13 | If responses are triggered by all sorts of psychological factors , it is interesting and rewarding to find out more about these by discussion . |
| 14 | A continually developing relationship with the international contemporary field together with the inclusion of new young British artists are two factors which make Modern British sales interesting and rewarding to follow . |
| 15 | Mr Banville looked surly and refused to shake her hand . |
| 16 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 17 | Skin tonics make the skin feel fresh and help to remove residues of soap or cleanser . |
| 18 | A few hours ' sleep , and he 'd come up fresh and begin to learn the system around here . |
| 19 | Typically the approach is fresh and designed to hold student interest . |
| 20 | ‘ It would appear he was a regular customer and willing and prepared to take stolen items . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It would appear he was a regular customer and willing and prepared to take stolen items . ’ |
| 22 | Thus in 1831 Cropper instructed Edward Prothero , one of the Bristol MPs : ‘ he is a nice young man ; very willing and open to hear ; but a good deal uninformed ’ . |
| 23 | May we give careful thought to questions of what is right and what is wrong and try to live according to our beliefs . |
| 24 | Shake off that depression , assess where you went wrong and try to put it right next year . |
| 25 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 26 | There you are with some glum , drunken , disapproving monster and you creep round asking him what 's wrong and trying to cheer him up . ’ |
| 27 | Some people never admit that they are wrong and continue to find new , and often mutually inconsistent , arguments to support their case — as Eddington did in opposing black hole theory . |
| 28 | That was undoubtedly a legacy of her childhood , she thought resignedly — a throw-back to the days when she and her mother had been forced to hold their heads high and attempt to ignore the pointing fingers . |
| 29 | But at the low interest rate , Oi 3 , bonds become so unattractive ( because their prices are high and expected to fall ) that the speculative demand for money becomes perfectly elastic . |
| 30 | Naturally the best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |