Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I think that 's usually the safest thing to go for with these things |
| 2 | Many unpredictable issues may emerge which are difficult to plan for at this stage . |
| 3 | I 've said I 'd be prepared to work for between two and three days a week |
| 4 | Erm , what we 'd like to know for for all of our sake 's really , is who we are , and where we 're from , what we 're doing here , how long have we been doing whatever it is that we 're doing here , erm where we come from , a little bit abo about our history , and any details , usual points , that you just Er , my name 's David . |
| 5 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 6 | There was even a character in Comic Cuts in the 1890s , a youthful prowler named ‘ Area Sneaker , — and what a pseudonym that is to conjure with from this supposedly untroubled late Victorian era — who reflected the fashion . |
| 7 | Attempts to characterise glass with a view to understanding its technology and source have been made , but glass is a difficult material to work with in this way because of compositional irregularities ( Sanderson and Hunter 1980 ; Hunter 1985 ) . |
| 8 | All of our leaders had reputations for being difficult to work with in some ways . |
| 9 | We shall refer again to this investigation but there is one aspect of it which it is appropriate to comment upon at this point . |
| 10 | Three points lying in a straight line were stimulated in quick succession and the subject 's task was to indicate from among four alternatives the orientation of the line in which the stimuli had been presented . |
| 11 | Adaptation to thrive in seasonal environments , in which day-length , temperatures , water and food availability and other important factors fluctuate widely throughout an annual cycle , may be at least as critical as adaptation to cold , and more difficult for species to adjust to by natural selection . |
| 12 | Er and also it 's not always easy , I mean there 's all this youth work business and sort of detached youth work and so on in erm er you know in the very underprivileged areas , but actually I , I think people say that the erm er the disaffected teenagers are actually some of the most difficult people to relate to at all . |
| 13 | Here it is , and erm , leave these er , on this row er twenty five , I 've got a total sales figures , and it 's that total sales figure there that I want to pass across into another file . |
| 14 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , experienced models are hard to come by on most of the Polynesian islands , though it is possible to find a few in Papeete . |
| 16 | His own form suffered at home , largely because of the poor standing of Widzew , and with Polish clubs finding success hard to come by in European competitions , the profile of individual players was dropping . |
| 17 | Hepworth justified poaching from literature because of ‘ the advantage of a well-made plot , which was not at all easy to come by in original film scenarios ’ , but what this ignores is the responsibility of producers like him to foster the writing skills which would end British cinema 's reliance on the novel or play , and novelistic or theatrical styles of storytelling . |
| 18 | So were erm were jobs quite hard to come by in those days , after the war ? |
| 19 | As I have pointed out , sir , independent sources are very hard to come by in these sort of areas . |
| 20 | Calvados is n't always easy to come by in this country and such as we can get is usually one or other of the commercial brands which in spite of their high prices are pretty crude . |
| 21 | The Labour Party has much to answer for from this perspective . |
| 22 | The trade unions have been largely silent and it was felt that the media had a lot to answer for in this department . |
| 23 | Not something I want to talk about at this moment . |
| 24 | Anybody got anything they want to talk about on that ? |
| 25 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 26 | yeah and he 's spotted racism in the Atkinson et al textbook and all sorts of , all over the place so erm mm there should be something interesting to talk about in that for a start . |
| 27 | Perhaps this is , this is something we could we could , we could use to talk about in some revision seminar at the beginning of next term cos we , we , we 've sort of got up to nineteen fifty two erm maybe it would be helpful if , if sort of you know we just sat there over the vacation and then come back and sort of have look |
| 28 | Of course , Bradl will have no freckly American to aim for in 1991 because the 250 world champ has graduated to 500s . |
| 29 | Shots of the product in use or in an unusual setting are the type to aim for in this area . |
| 30 | The possibility of making the recognition task too easy for subjects is especially difficult to guard against in this type of study since a major expenditure of time and effort is required to collect films and create stimulus tapes , this makes extensive piloting unrealistic . |